Travel and Nobel Prize 2009 and my travel
Place I visited in last 1 week are celebrating their Nobel prize winners
Hong Kong: Country is celebrating Charles Kao winning Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of mechanics behind fiber optics. South China morning Post celebrated it with full gusto.
Mumbai: Indian origin Venkatraman Ramakrishnan won 2009 prize in chemistry for work related to ribosomes.
San Francisco: Elizabeth Hepburn for UCSF won Medicine Prize for discovery of teloremase
Santa Barbara: Caol Greidner now in John Hopkins co-winner of Medicine Nobel prize was an undergrad student here in UCSB.
Literature, peace and economics prizes are yet to be announced.