Nobel Prize Awards

Nobel Prize winner will speak on 'Coolest Stuff in the Universe'

2013-05-08 17:51:29

It's not often that we find Nobel Prize winners hanging around our neck of the woods. But on Thursday, May 16, at 7 p.m., the community is invited to the Mulitz Theatre on the campus of Glenelg Country School, where Nobel Prize recipient and American...

Dalai Lama packs UM Comcast Center for address on compassion

2013-05-07 18:34:00

He pulled on a Terps visor, to the crowd's delight. He rubbed noses with Gov. Martin O'Malley. And the Dalai Lama was met Tuesday with rounds of applause from a crowd of 15,000 at the University of Maryland, College Park's Comcast Center. "Sit down,"...

Franz X. Groll, physician

2013-04-18 14:18:00

Dr. Franz Xavier Groll, a retired physician who lived and practiced on Eager Street in downtown Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood, died of pulmonary thrombosis April 2 at Keswick Multi-Care Center. He was 95. Born in Aalen in Germany, he was the son...

Hopkins' Nobel winner Riess to speak at Baltimore synagogue Sunday

2013-04-12 05:00:00

Adam Riess, the Nobel Prize-winning astronomy professor at Johns Hopkins University, will discuss the expansion of the universe and its mysteries in an event at Bolton Street Synagogue on Sunday. Riess will present and lead a discussion titled...

Hubble spots distant supernova from early universe

2013-04-05 17:29:00

Description: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a supernova that exploded more than 10 billion years ago, the most distant of its kind ever spotted. It was 4 percent farther away and 350 million years older than the previous record-holder, a...

Invest wisely in early childhood

2013-03-15 12:45:00

As we struggle through the fifth year of recession, facing budget cuts, austerity and now the sequester, it may be a good time to re-evaluate our national priorities. Last year, the Reach Out and Read program that distributes books to low-income...

Ignat Solzhenitsyn leads Baltimore Symphony in works by Mozart, Part

2013-03-04 12:24:00

When Ignat Solzhenitsyn's career began a couple decades ago, the piano was his primary focus. In short order, the podium attracted his attention, and he has enjoyed significant success as a conductor. Over the weekend, this son of the Nobel Prize-...

U.S. cuts could lead to 'brain drain' in medicine

2013-02-23 13:45:15

Scientists at the nation's leading research institutions are warning that continued uncertainty over federal funding could lead to a brain drain that will undermine the country's global status in medicine. With funding at the National Institutes of...

Hopkins researcher receives new award to spotlight scientists

2013-02-21 07:27:31

Many people have heard of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg or Google co-founder Sergey Brin. But few know about Bert Vogelstein, a Johns Hopkins scientist who helped map the cancer genome and created gene and stool tests to detect colon cancer. A new,...

Obama returns to arms control -- just in time

2013-02-18 06:14:00

President Barack Obama's call during the State of the Union address to reduce the threat of nuclear war could not have been more timely. The day before the president spoke, North Korea tested a primitive nuclear device, and the following day reports...

The Carson monologue

2013-02-12 08:49:00

Dr. Benjamin Carson, the eminent Johns Hopkins pediatric neurosurgeon, has received much attention over the years not only for his skills in the operating room but for what he has achieved beyond it. For many Baltimoreans, his story is a familiar one...

Dr. Ben Carson's speech was courageous

2013-02-15 10:30:00

The Sun's editorial board commits the same sin they attribute to conservatives: selective editing of Dr. Ben Carson's speech and the reaction thereto ("The Carson Monologue" Feb 12). Did not Cal Thomas, a conservative icon, come out with a demand that Dr....

Imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, in a graphic created by PEN.

2013-05-03 00:00:00

Elie Wiesel, a Distinguished Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, is photographed at the Holocaust Memorial Library at Chapman University in Orange.

2013-04-17 00:00:00

Francis Crick was a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule. He won along with James D.

2013-03-13 15:42:24