Osamu Shimomura (b.1928, Japanese, but won the nobel in USA), Martin Chalfie (b.1947, USA) and Roger Y. Tsien (b.1952, Chinese-American) share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry cash award (of 10,000,000 Swedish kronor = 68.3089588 million Indian rupees, thus getting 22.7696529 million INR) each for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP
Source : Nobelprize.org
Chandrayaan-1, India’s first lunar mission (of course unmanned) is all set to be launched from the spaceport of Sriharikota at 6:20 AM on October 22, according to ISRO sources. The satellite has already been transported from Banglore to Sriharikota in a special vehicle and is currently at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC, but called SHAR as the acronym for its previous name – Sriharikota Range).
PS : It would be launched on board PSLV-C11.
This years Nobel Prize for medicine is shared by three European scientists who discovered viruses that cause cervical cancer and AIDS.
Harald zur Hausen (b. 1936) (Tel.: (06221) 42 – 28 50), a German virologist, who discovered the human papilloma viruses (H.P.V.), thus leading to the development of vaccines (Gardasil and Cervarix) against cervical cancer – the second most common cancer among women after breast cancer – will recieve half the award (5 000 000 Swedish kronor = 32.9111834 million Indian rupees).
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (b. 1947) and Luc Montagnier (b. 1932), both from France, will share the other half of the award (2 500 000 Swedish kronor = 16.4555917 million Indian rupees) but will get full medals and certificates for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus, which needs no introduction.
Sources :
1) NobelPrize.org
2) The New York Times
Those who are true believers needn’t see this because your beliefs are going to be smashed around.
Those who are in between believing and not, do read
Those who are non-believers read and laugh your heart out
100’s of reasons why God exists
OK. You’ve heard that term too many times. But still doesn’t know the meaning quite exact, right?
Now here it is
Xenophobia is an intense and/or irrational dislike and sometimes fear of people from other countries. It comes from the Greek words ξένος (xenos), meaning “foreigner,” “stranger,” and φόβος (phobos), meaning “fear.” The term is typically used to describe a fear or dislike of foreigners or of people significantly different from oneself.
All of us know well about wikipedia. But how many of us actually know its sisters, and its parent?
Wikipedia was developed by Wiki Media Foundation and it has many projects under it other than the very popular wikipedia. Let me list each of them with a small description.
“C is a common computer programming language. C++ is the newer version of it.”
This was the only thing that I knew about C and C++ before I visited this site.
http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark/CTutorial/CTutorial.html
It is a nice website that teaches you the basic of the programming language.
Now those of you who are about to enter 11th Standard, will be knowing what they are going to learn in Computer Science.
Did you know that the Large Hadron Collider is not just an experiment, but a landmark in human history?
If you didn’t you SHOULD visit the website of European Organization for Nuclear research and know what the LHC is.