1 hour ago Hong Kong’s John Lee champions Shaw Prize vision, pays tribute to late physicist

Hong Kong’s leader has said late entertainment mogul Run Run Shaw’s vision of celebrating education and the pursuit of knowledge with his prestigious science prize is central to the city government’s own aspirations. Speaking at the award ceremony for the prestigious Shaw Prize on Tuesday, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu also paid his respects to late Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Chen-ning Yang, who was one of the local award’s founding council members. The award, dubbed the “Nobel...

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56 h. ago People pay tribute to Chen Ning Yang at Tsinghua University in Beijing

People pay tribute to Chen Ning Yang at Tsinghua University in Beijing-Xinhua  新华网

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3 d. ago Chen Ning Yang, pioneer of particle physics and Nobel laureate, dies in Beijing at 103

Chen Ning Yang, pioneer of particle physics and Nobel laureate, dies in Beijing at 103  Malay Mail

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3 d. ago Chen Ning Yang: Chinese Nobel prize winning physicist dies aged 103

Chen Ning Yang: Chinese Nobel prize winning physicist dies aged 103  BBC

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7 d. ago Venezuela’s Nobel laureate urges Maduro to cede power peacefully

Nicolas Maduro’s time is up but he can still leave power peacefully, Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said in an interview from hiding on Monday. Offering a barbed olive branch to Venezuela’s long-lasting leader, 58-year-old Machado said President Maduro could get personal guarantees if he were to cede power. “Maduro currently has the opportunity to move toward a peaceful transition,” the opposition figurehead told Agence France-Presse as a flotilla of US warships...

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1 week ago Trio win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for new form of molecular architecture

Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their work in the development of metal-organic frameworks that dates back to 1989. The Nobel Committee said that the three laureates “developed a new form of molecular architecture.” “They have created molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow,” the committee said. Hans Ellegren, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,...

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2 w. ago There are diehard Gauff fans, and then there's Hans in Beijing

There are diehard Gauff fans, and then there's Hans in Beijing  WTA Tennis

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