JJ Thomson studied electrical discharges in gases. Following the discovery of x-rays and radioactivity his imaginative work inspired many young researchers, including Ernest Rutherford, WL Bragg and ...

2007 Nobel: Place your bets! We'll all find out who takes this year's Nobel Prizes the morning they do (sometime next week), but there are some early predictions.

The 2013 Citation Laureates include life scientists whose citation records, according to Thomson Reuters, make them prime candidates for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry or the award for Physiology or ...