Date: 05/02/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: no keywords

Nobel science prizes will face a "more daring" rival from 2008 with $1 million awards for research into everything from the "big bang" to the brain, a Norwegian-born philanthropist said on Monday. Fred Kavli, a physicist who left Norway in 1955 with $300 and turned it into a $340 million fortune in California, said he was [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nobel-prize-has-a-strong-competitor/