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Opinion | Dylan’s win reboots the Nobel Prize for Literature

Graham Mooney/October 14, 2016February 2, 2018

Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for Literature. Validation at last for the voice of a generation; another trophy in…

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Ernest Walton | The Irish nobel laureate who split the atom

Alan Hally/October 5, 2016February 2, 2018

In July 2012, a little over 60 years after the first successful atom smashing, CERN – the European Organization for…

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