Nobel laureate
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The Panama-based Nobel laureate has said that she does not oppose the negotiations going ahead, stating that she would not attend.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
We know this because of the findings of William Sharpe, the 1990 Nobel laureate in economics.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
The Nobel laureate, dubbed the “godfather of AI” for his work on artificial neural networks, warns of a 10% to 20% chance AI will wipe out humans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
“There is nothing so joyous as a Mexican fiesta, but there is also nothing so sorrowful,” Nobel laureate Octavio Paz infamously wrote in “The Labyrinth of Solitude,” his 1950 treatise on the Mexican condition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
This time Neylan’s target was Melvin Calvin, a future Nobel laureate who had worked at the Metallurgical Lab in Chicago and then moved to Berkeley to research peacetime applications of medical radioisotopes with John Lawrence.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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