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Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded, Physics Soon to Follow

Nobel Prize season is here again, and the first award for Physiology or Medicine was split between two virologists who discovered HIV and one who demonstrated that a virus causes cervical cancer. Coming soon is the announcement for Physics. Look to the right for a chance to pit your selection wit against the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences with a poll for which scientific achievement deserves the prize. Front runners, according to Reuters, are; Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, discovers of graphene, Vera Rubin, provider of the best evidence yet of dark matter, and Roger Penrose and Dan Shechtman, discoverers of Penrose tilings and quasicrystals.<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/06/1556225&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/10/06/1556225"></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/06/1556225&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p><form action="//slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?from=rss" method="post"> <fieldset> <legend>Poll</legend> <input type="hidden" name="qid" value="1651"> <input type="hidden" name="section" value="mainpage"> <b>Which discovery deserves the Nobel Prize for Physics this year?</b> <br><input type="radio" name="aid" value="1"><a href="//slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1651&aid=1&reskey=&from=rss">Graphene</a> <br><input type="radio" name="aid" value="2"><a href="//slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1651&aid=2&reskey=&from=rss">Dark Matter</a> <br><input type="radio" name="aid" value="3"><a href="//slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1651&aid=3&reskey=&from=rss">Penrose tilings and quasicrystals</a> <br><input type="radio" name="aid" value="4"><a href="//slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1651&aid=4&reskey=&from=rss">Quicksilver clock</a> <br><input type="radio" name="aid" value="5"><a href="//slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1651&aid=5&reskey=&from=rss">Bharat Radiation</a> <br><input type="radio" name="aid" value="6"><a href="//slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1651&aid=6&reskey=&from=rss">A new formula for Bawlz</a> <br><input type="radio" name="aid" value="7"><a href="//slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1651&aid=7&reskey=&from=rss">Cowboy Neal's Excited State</a> <br><input type="submit" value="Vote"> [ <a href="//slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1651&aid=-1&from=rss"><b>Results</b></a> | <a href="//slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?from=rss"><b>Polls</b></a> ] <br> </fieldset> </form> <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/_BedtHRa_a2VBLj_-1EzheZ715g/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/_BedtHRa_a2VBLj_-1EzheZ715g/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/KVcf74ycsak" height="1" width="1"/>