German Writer Get Nobel Literature

Monday, October 12, 2009

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Herta Mueller (56 years old), writer from German, get Nobel Sastra prize 2009, that announced by juries team in Stockholm, Sweden on Thurdays October 8, 2009. Juries team appraised Mueller writing critically pictured repressed and humiliation by Nicolae Ceausescu communist regime. This Muller victory is like supported for 20th celebrities of communist fall down. Juries appraised work of woman writer who born in Romania as writer with poem power and honestly prose pictured very cruel dictator of one regime. Mueller started her debut as writer in 1982 by published her short story collection titled Niederugen or The Lowest Point. Stories about life struggle in a town that the citizen speaks German in Romania but her works censored by communist regime. Two years later, uncensored version smuggled to German. This writing was publication and read by many persons. In the same time, Mueller published Oppressive Tango in Romania. Meanwhile, that publication was forbidden because criticism to communist government of Nicolae Ceausescu. Life background of Muller is not released from communist regime cruelness. Her mother has been sent for five years since 1945to prisoner camp in The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) era. Mueller started work as translator for a machine company in 1977-1979. She fired because denied to become informant for secret service. Muller leaved Romania with her husband, Richard Wagner, in 1987 and lives in German. Muller is the 12th woman to win the prestigious Nobel literature prize
Here follows a list of the women literature laureates:
2009 - Herta Mueller (Germany)
2007 - Doris Lessing (Britain)
2004 - Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
1996 - Wislawa Szymborska (Poland)
1993 - Toni Morrison (United States)
1991 - Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
1966 - Nelly Sachs (Sweden), with Shmuel Agnon of Israel
1945 - Gabriela Mistral (Chile)
1938 - Pearl Buck (US)

Three Information Technology Experts Get Nobel Physics

Nobel physics prize winners: Britain's Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and

George Smith. photograph: Reuters and NAE

A pioneer of fiber optic and two scientists who found the way to change light become electronic signals – work that opened way to internet era – achieved Nobel Prize in Physics 1009 on Tuesday October 6, 2009. Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and George Smith get this reward because created two tools that help information technology revolution. Kao is United States of America citizen who born in Shanghai wins a half of 10 million krona prize (US$ 1.4 million)for his research that makes a breakthrough in optic fiber used. That research opened way to continue light for long distance by fiber optic glass. Wilard Boyle and George smith also US citizen shared another half of prize because created first image technology that used a digital censor. “Nobel prize for physics this year give to two scientific reached. These findings help for created foundation for network that makes people connected each other,” says spokesman Scientific Academy of Sweden Kingdom. Kao get award because his work about fiber optic in 1996 that showed how to transmission light for long distance via fiber optic cable. This work became backbone for modern communication network that at this time realized in telephone connection and high speed internet connection to all over the world. Boyle and Smith work together created charged-couple device (CCD), semiconductor image circuit that became eye for digital camera. In 1969, they are work for Bell laboratory and designed an image censor that can be used to change light to pixel in short time.

Three US Citizens Accepted Medical Nobel

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Three US scientists on Monday October 5, 2009 accepted Medical Nobel in 2009 because found and identification a key mechanism in genetic cell operation. This discovery inspired new research in aging and cancer. Elizabeth Blackburn who born in Australia, Jacks Szostak born in England, and Carol Greider get prize worth 10 million Sweden krona (US$ 1.42 million) according to Karolinska, Sweden. For the first time two women among Medical Nobel winners. That trio that worked in last 1970’s and 1980’s, overcome mystery how chromosome, structure that bring DNA, covered itself from degradation when cell split. Announcement of Nobel Prize mentioned three Nobel recipients found solution in end of chromosome, part named telomere that often compared with the end of shoestring to keep the string not decomposes. Blackburn and Greider found enzyme that make tolemere, that is telomerase and mechanism that used to add DNA in the chromosome ends to replace eroded genetic material. Work of Nobel recipients that prepared arena to research that mentioned cancer cells used telomerase to support their uncontrolled growth. “Discoveries by Blackburn Greider and Szostak already added a new dimension to understanding about diseases mechanism and stimulate developed of new potential therapies.” says foundation that become Nobel Prize Committee in medical field. Balckburn who hold United States and Australia citizenships is a biology and physiology professor at California University, San Francisco, Greider is a molecular biology and genetics science at medical faculty, John Hopkins University in Baltimore. Greider (48 years old) started researched telomerase in the late 1970’s with Blacburn, her academic adviser whom supported research about chromosome and DNA in University of California. A vocal researcher, Blackburn (60 years old) fired in 2004 from Bioethic Board in George W Bush era because her criticism to President policies about embryonic stem cell research. Telomere already found some decades before, but Blackburn curous how it become copied to updated cell life. Szoszak (56 years old) then continued research about telomerase. Szoszak who worked at medical faculty of Harvard University since 1979, at this time he works at Massachusetts Public Hospital in Boston.