Business & Tech Celebrated UC Berkeley Biochemist and CRISPR Pioneer Jennifer Doudna Wins Nobel Prize UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna, along with French colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for the pair's pioneering work in the genome-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9.
SF News Nobel Peace Prize Winner Notified Of Win Via Twitter When the Nobel Prize committee had trouble notifying their peace prize winner of their award, they did what any overeager PR person or 1D fangirl would do: they @'d them. @OPCW Please contact
SF News Stanford Prof Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize (Prompting Yet Another Humblebrag) Stanford's Michael Levitt, professor in cancer research and structural biology, nabbed this year's prize in chemistry. He shares the award with Martin Karplus, at the University of Strasbourg and Harvard, and Arieh Warshel,
SF News UC Berkeley Nobel Prize Winner Humblebrags Win On Facebook It's nice to know that even Nobel Prize winners are prone to the occasional humblebrag, superpower smarts and all. Shortly after winning the 2013 prize for medicine on Monday, UC Berkeley's Randy Schekman
SF News UC Berkeley Professor Nabs Nobel Prize In yet another year of predicable winners on the horizon (not Konstantin Novoselov again, please!), white hot 'it' astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter surprised many when he took home the Nobel Prize in Physics for
SF News UC Berkeley Prof Receives Economics Nobel Prize Oliver Williamson, a professor at UC Berkeley, won the Nobel economics prize on today. Along with Elinor Ostrom, Williamson nabbed the award "for their analyses of economic governance - the way authority is
SF News Surprise! Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize They sure do love our fine President up in Norway! Despite having only been in office 12 days when the nomination deadline passed, the Nobel committee went ahead and awarded Barack Obama the
SF News UCSF Researcher Nabs Nobel Prize For Medicine Elizabeth H. Blackburn, 60, a molecular biologist at the University of California at San Francisco, won the Nobel Prize for medicine today. Just what , exactly, did Blackburn do to win this this fancy
SF News Wiesel's Wispy Whacker Pleads Wacky The man accused of assaulting and kidnapping Elie Wiesel -- attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, battery, stalking, elder abuse and hate crimes, to be exact -- changed his not guilty plea to one of
Arts & Entertainment Doris Lessing: the Chloë Sevigny of Nobel Laureates After winning the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature today, reporters asked Doris Lessing how she felt. Her response? "Oh Christ...I couldn't care less." That famous dry British wit! Congrats, Doris. We've yet
misc Dell Using Nerd Wins Physics Nobel Prize No longer just for cute Aryan stoners, Albert Fert of the Scientific Research National Center in Paris -- who just received the Nobel Prize for physics alongside Peter Gruenberg for their massive brainpower
SF News Elie Wiesel's Attacker Goes To Trial Currently on sabbatical at the psychiatric unit of San Francisco County jailhouse for trying to beat the holy hell out of Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel -- and also hopped up on meds
Arts & Entertainment Where Are You, Strips of Joy? Emergency: are these caffeinated strips available anywhere in SF? We're dying of sluggishness without them. The black-sheep Safeway on King and Fourth Streets used to carry them, but -- poof! -- now they're
SF News Nobel Prize Found UC Berkeley police said Sanchez showed the prize off to his friends and one of them tipped off the cops. Probably because there was a $2,500 reward for information about the stolen
SF News Grand Theft Berkeley One has to wonder who would actually go around stealing a Nobel Prize in physics. A rival physicist who didn't get the award? A really smart thief? An international Nobel Prize thief who
SF News Now Here's a Strange Story The man who accosted Wiesel took credit for it on an anti-Zionist web site using the name Eric Hunt. In the posting, he said that he decided to go after Wiesel only after
Arts & Entertainment Hey, At Least It's Free Now Friedman, who died last week, definitely has his intellectual cred. He's got a Nobel Prize fer crissakes. And he's definitely been a figure of major influence over the years. His economic viewpoints
Arts & Entertainment The Hastily Assembled Adventures of the Superfisters We also enjoyed the genre-experimentation of "Doc Frankenstein," a series of books set in a universe in which Frankenstein's monster survived and evolved into a mercenary, a liberal activist, and an enemy of
SF News Clemency Denied As many legal observers expected, Gov. Schwarzenegger denied Stanley "Tookie" Williams's request for clemency, stating that (.pdf) there was strong evidence supporting the jury's guilty verdict, and that he doesn't really believe that
