http://www.mail.com/int/subjects/19668-scientific-prizes-competitions.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/subjects/19668-scientific-prizes-competitions.html http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2011502-dna-discoverers-letter-sells-53m-record.html NEW YORK (AP) — A letter that scientist Francis Crick wrote to his son about his Nobel Prize-winning DNA discovery was sold to anonymous buyer at a New York City auction on Wednesday for a record-breaking $5.3 million. The price, which far exceeded the $1 million pre-sale estimate, topped $6 million when the commission is included, according to Christie's... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:17:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2011502-dna-discoverers-letter-sells-53m-record.html 2013-04-11T00:17:47Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1967082-belgian-wins-norways-1-abel-math-prize.html OSLO, Norway (AP) — Belgian-born Pierre Deligne has won this year's $1-million Abel Prize in mathematics for his contributions to algebraic geometry and their "transformative impact on number theory, representation theory and related fields." The Norwegian mathematics award committee says the 68-year-old professor of mathematics has excelled in finding co... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:50:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1967082-belgian-wins-norways-1-abel-math-prize.html 2013-03-20T12:50:42Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1954080-physicists-they-higgs-boson.html GENEVA (AP) — It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago. In what could go down as one of the great Eureka! moments in physics — and win somebody the Nobel Prize — scientists said Thursday that after a half-century quest, they are confident they have found a ... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:30:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1954080-physicists-they-higgs-boson.html 2013-03-14T20:30:53Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1888580-historians-scientists-artist-win-israeli-prize.html TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — American intellectual Leon Wieseltier, French philosopher Michel Serres and British historian Sir Geoffrey Lloyd are among the winners of this year's prestigious Dan David Prize. The Dan David Foundation grants the $1 million prizes in three categories — past, present and future — for scientific, technological and cultural accompli... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:58:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1888580-historians-scientists-artist-win-israeli-prize.html 2013-02-13T10:58:10Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1850552-correction-europe-science-bonanza-story.html BRUSSELS (AP) — In a story Jan. 28 about a European Union science award, The Associated Press reported erroneously that €1 billion euros was equivalent to $1.34 million. The correct conversion is that €1 billion euros equals $1.34 billion. A corrected version of the story is below: 2 science projects win up to $1.3 billion each European projects to model ... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:59:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1850552-correction-europe-science-bonanza-story.html 2013-01-31T15:59:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1826660-2-americans-1-swede-share-crafoord-science-prize.html STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two Americans and a Swede have won this year's Crafoord Prize, a 4 million kronor ($600,000) scientific award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to honor achievements not always covered by its more famous Nobel Prizes. Peter Gregersen of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research near New York, Robert Winchester of Columbia ... Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1826660-2-americans-1-swede-share-crafoord-science-prize.html 2013-01-17T09:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1821740-race-eus-13-billion-science-projects.html BERLIN (AP) — Call it Europe's Got Talent for geeks. Teams of scientists from across the continent are vying for a funding bonanza that could see two of them receive up to €1 billion ($1.33 billion) over 10 years to keep Europe at the cutting edge of technology. The contest began with 26 proposals that were whittled down to six last ye... Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:34:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1821740-race-eus-13-billion-science-projects.html 2013-01-15T14:34:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1795992-israeli-prize-honors-foreign-scientists-architect.html JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize this year will honor American, German and Austrian scientists as well as an architect from Portugal. Wolf winners are considered strong contenders for Nobel prizes. In the 34 years the Wolf Foundation has granted the awards, about one out of three laureates in chemistry, physics and medicine have gone on to... Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:51:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1795992-israeli-prize-honors-foreign-scientists-architect.html 2013-01-02T17:51:00Z