Toni Morrison photographed in 2010: in both her fiction and non-fiction, she sought to expose the ‘national amnesia’ underlying often unconscious forms of racism.
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In her creative and critical work, Toni Morrison sought to remap the contours of American literature and culture.
Canadian Ralph Steinman’s investigations of dendritic cells led to a Noble Prize in physiology or medicine, but not for a Canadian institution.
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Only one Canadian discovery has brought home a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. But, like winning another Stanley Cup, Canadians should not give up hope.
Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo.
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Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the discoverer of nuclear fission.
Random arrangement of the elements.
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2019 is the International Year of the Periodic Table. The person who typically gets credit for its creation is Dimitri Mendeleev. But there were many more chemists who should be recognized.
Physics laureate Donna Strickland receives the prize from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden during the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10, 2018.
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The winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in physics says scientists shouldn’t feel pressured to do research that has economic or commercial ramifications. Science for the sake of science is more important.
Feel like traveling to another dimension? Better choose your black hole wisely.
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Feel like visiting another star system or dimension? You can do this by traveling through a spacetime portal of a black hole. But you better choose carefully. All black holes are not created equal.
A woman measures a substance into a set of small scales in a laboratory, Toronto, Ontario (1892)
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Progress has been made toward gender parity in science fields. But explicit and implicit barriers still hold women back from advancing in the same numbers as men to the upper reaches of STEM academia.
Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege: campaigners against sexual violence against women.
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The prize recognises that violence against women has become a weapon of war.
Noble Prize winner Donna Strickland, right, is followed by media to her lab in Waterloo, Ont., on Oct. 2, 2018. Strickland is among three physicists who were awarded the prize for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics.
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What Strickland achieved is impressive. But it isn’t a sign that the patriarchy is being smashed.
Recognition: The University of Waterloo’s associate physics professor Donna Strickland after being awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics.
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Donna Strickland is the first woman in 55 years to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Let’s hope the next such award to a woman won’t take so long.
The 2018 Nobel Prize for physics recognized discoveries that can make more powerful lasers.
The Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to three scientists for the inventions of optical tweezers – in which two laser beams can hold a tiny object – and a method for creating powerful lasers.
James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo win the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their foundational work on cancer immunotherapy.
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James Allison and Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for encouraging immune cells to attack cancer. See how their work has revolutionized cancer therapies and medicine.