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...and Refuses Math's Highest Honor.
He clearly Threw His Tweezers Away long ago.
This undated photo released by the International Mathematician Congress shows Grigori Perelman, from Russia, who was awarded with a prestigious Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006. Perelman, a reclusive Russian genius who says he's cracked one of history's toughest math problems won the equivalent of a Nobel prize Tuesday, but refused to accept it -- a stunning renunciation of accolades from the top minds in his field. Perelman, a 40-year-old native of St. Petersburg, was praised for work that might help scientists figure out the shape of the universe. But besides shunning the medal, colleagues say he also seems uninterested in a separate, million-dollar prize he might be due over his feat of wizardry: proving a theorem about the nature of multidimensional space that has stumped very smart people for 100 years.
Thanks, Dan!
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Neuroscience
Russian Has World's Greatest Eyebrows...
...and Refuses Math's Highest Honor.
He clearly Threw His Tweezers Away long ago.
This undated photo released by the International Mathematician Congress shows Grigori Perelman, from Russia, who was awarded with a prestigious Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006. Perelman, a reclusive Russian genius who says he's cracked one of history's toughest math problems won the equivalent of a Nobel prize Tuesday, but refused to accept it -- a stunning renunciation of accolades from the top minds in his field. Perelman, a 40-year-old native of St. Petersburg, was praised for work that might help scientists figure out the shape of the universe. But besides shunning the medal, colleagues say he also seems uninterested in a separate, million-dollar prize he might be due over his feat of wizardry: proving a theorem about the nature of multidimensional space that has stumped very smart people for 100 years.Thanks, Dan!
- Dr. Mortimer Mishkin To Be Awarded National Medal Of Science
From an NIH press release: NIMH's Dr. Mortimer Mishkin to be awarded National Medal of Science 12 November 2010 National Institutes of Health intramural researcher Mortimer Mishkin, Ph.D., will be awarded the National Medal of Science at a White House...
- Dr. Brenda Milner
From the CBC: McGill neuroscientist wins $1M research prize Last Updated: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 | 5:26 PM ET [snip] McGill University Prof. Brenda Milner has won the International Balzan Prize for 2009. The prize is one million Swiss francs, or...
- Upcoming Event: 06 October 2008, Stockholm
From the Nobel Prize website: Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The names of the year's Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine are announced during a press conference at the Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm....
- Damasios To Be Awarded Jean-louis Signoret Prize
From this past Wednesday's Iowa City Press-Citizen:Damasio couple wins prestigious prize By the Press-Citizen 03 November 2004 Two physicians from the University of Iowa will receive an important honor at a ceremony Nov. 15 in the Salpetrière...
- Native Speakers Of Russian Needed For Language Study!
Research Participants Native Speakers of Russian Study Center for Advanced Study of Language University of Maryland Description: CASL (Center for Advanced Study of Language) are recruiting native speakers of Russian to participate in a language study....