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| | 20 Things You Didn't Know About... The Nobel Prizes - - science news articles online technology magazine articles 20 ... (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Alfred Nobel, a Swede who invented dynamite, so regretted his contribution to warfare that he decided to offer five prizes annually "to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." The winners are announced this month. |
 | | Marie Curie is responsible for 18% of Nobel Prizes won by women in the sciences. |
 | | The Nobel for deducing the correct structure, a double helix, went to James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins in 1962. |
| www.discover.com /issues/oct-06/departments/20-things-nobel-prizes (801 words) |
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