Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov honored for work on tiny particles that can release very bright colored light and are used in electronics and medical imaging

Avram Hershko, Ada Yonath, Aaron Ciechanover, Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel, Roger Kornberg, Daniel Kahneman raise 'deep concern' over effect of proposal on scientific research

Lot in which medal was sold also includes three of Walter Kohn's science textbooks from when he was a student

Simple yet 'ingenious' method by David List and David W.C. MacMillan used to make everything from medicines to food flavorings

Physicist Lisa Meitner discovered nuclear fission soon after fleeing Nazi Germany 1938, but the Nobel Prize was given to a man as she saw her breakthrough used in ways she opposed

French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna, first female pair to snag award, honored for groundbreaking work developing CRISPR method

Contradicting warnings that Lebanon disaster is a wake-up call for northern port city, Dan Shechtman says 'people in Haifa die slowly from air pollution'

John Goodenough, 97, oldest ever laureate, is past winner of Israel's Samson Prize; his father was expert on Judaism in the Hellenistic period