Nobel prize Archive

• 010/05/2020

  Geek (Trio) Of The Week: Alter, Houghton & Rice

  The 2020 Winners of the Nobel prize for Physiology.
• 006/22/2020

  Geek Of The Week: Ernest Lawrence

  Inventor of the Cyclotron… and fellow U of MN alumnus.
• 006/01/2020

  Geek Of The Week: John B Goodenough

  Developer of the Lithium Ion battery.
• 003/09/2020

  Geek Of The Week: Martinus Beijerinck

  The Father of Virology.
• 012/23/2019

  Geek Of The Week: William Shockley

  The guy who put the ‘silicon’ in Silicon Valley.
• 009/23/2019

  Geek Of The Week: Guglielmo Marconi

  The inventor of radio.
• 010/01/2018

  Geek Of The Week: Donna Strickland

  2018 Nobel Prize winner for physics.
• 005/07/2018

  Geek Of The Week: Kip Thorne

  Nobel Prize winner for physics for gravitational waves.
• 006/05/2017

  Geek Of The Week: Gertrude Belle Elon

  Important American Biochemist and Pharmacologist.
• 004/28/2014

  Geek Of The Week: Dorothy Hodgkin

  Nobel prize winner for X-Ray crystallography.
• 007/29/2013

  Geek Of The Week: Barbara McClintock

  The only woman to win an unshared Nobel Prize in Medicine.
• 004/22/2013

  Geek Of The Week: Alfred Nobel

  An explosive Geek of the Week!
• 107/16/2012

  Geek Of The Week: Peter Higgs

  He proposed the existence of the “God particle”.
• 005/14/2012

  Geek Of The Week: Erwin Schroedinger

  Is the cat alive, or dead, or both?
• 105/07/2012

  Geek Of The Week: Niels Bohr

  Founding member of CERN, and modeler of the atom.
• 001/10/2012

  Geek Of The Week: Werner Heisenberg

  Nobel Prize winning physicist.
• 011/07/2011

  Geek Of The Week: Max Planck

  Not the inventor of planking…the Nobel Prize winning Physicist!
• 006/13/2011

  Geek Of The Week: Robert Koch

  One of the most influential scientists in the field of Medicine and infectious disease.
• 005/02/2011

  Geek Of The Week: Enrico Fermi

  Nobel Prize, check. Element named after him, check. Geek of the Week, check.
• 103/21/2011

  Geek Of The Week: Richard Feynman

  Nobel Prize winning Physicist, father of quantum computing.
• 109/13/2010

  Geek Of The Week: Linus Pauling

  Quite possibly the greatest American-born scientist ever.
• 108/23/2010

  Geek Of The Week: Rosalind Franklin

  Rosalind Franklin, visualizer of DNA, and now Geek of the Week.
• 207/19/2010

  Geek Of The Week: Marie Curie

  The first person to win two Nobel Prizes.
• 002/15/2010

  Geek Of The Week: Albert Einstein

  The man completely changed Physics with one brilliantly simple formula that everyone knows.