However, the Zoological Society of London found the apes enjoyed getting stuck into a puzzle, with or without the opportunity to win a prize.
Its next step is to try to win a prize for a vehicle capable of taking three people into space twice within two weeks.
But Lauterbur went on to win a Nobel prize for his work, and Dr Higgs is an odds-on favourite to get one soon.
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The only writer to win a Nobel Prize for his stories in Arabic has died.
China celebrated another achievement last week, as Mo Yan became the first Chinese citizen to win a Nobel Prize for literature.
He was a lecturer at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine when he became the first Briton to win a Nobel Prize.
Although this feat alone might seem compelling enough to win a Nobel Prize, other companies have been working with similar technologies for years.
If Dr Lipton is correct, the race has now begun to see whether the first artificial scientist to win a Nobel prize is based on silicon or biological material.
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Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, of the University of Manchester, made graphene in 2004 using what may be the simplest experiment ever to win a Nobel prize: they peeled it off the surface of a piece of graphite using sticky tape.
It described her as a game designer whose goal was for a game designer to win a Nobel Peace Prize by the year 2023.
Fans can wait for hours to try and win a prize seat, the Web site said, but FIFA has now called on the Ivorian football federation and local authorities to carry out an urgent investigation.
Mantel's win also makes her the first person in Man Booker history to win the prize for a direct sequel.
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Ms Enright, the fourth Irish writer to win the prize, is a 45-year-old Dubliner who has written three previous novels, short stories and a work of non-fiction.
By the end of November 2010 they had sketched together a novel plan to win the prize and submitted it to organizers.
Dr Cornell and Dr Wieman had to plumb the icy depths of 20 billionths of a degree above absolute zero in order to win their prize.
His academic peers reckon that he is a good tip to win the Nobel prize for medicine one day.
Meanwhile, Anglo-Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis is a favourite to win the leading actor prize for his turn as Lincoln in Spielberg's historical drama.
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Thayil is the first Indian to win the prize, awarded annually to a work of fiction "inspired by the South Asian region, people, culture and diaspora".
The two went on to win a Cambridge entrepreneurism award, a Cambridge angel prize, and a British government grant.
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Never mind that this technique, in 2003, was to win Mr Lauterbur a joint share in the Nobel prize for medicine.
Foreign-born scientists are more than twice as likely to win a U.S.-based Nobel Prize as their American-born colleagues, and are overrepresented in the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
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Recently, I entered a competition to win a crown worn by Robert Baratheon (runner-up prize, the one worn by King Joffrey).
In addition, the Ben Heck bobblehead contest continues, giving viewers a chance to win show t-shirts and the grand prize bobblehead.
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Since that thrilling night and excellent party in Accra, I've gone on to win a United Nations Correspondents Association Gold Medal in the Richard Ortega Prize for coverage of the UN and its agencies in Uganda.
The Higgs Prize will give young physics students the chance to win a trip to Cern, where work researching the Higgs particle continues.
But the design that is best to win that prize is not necessarily the best design to operate as a commercial vehicle for space tourism, where having low recurring costs is more vital.
Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, has been called the Lady Gaga of architecture, a wild woman who makes wild things.
The colt had always been destined to win the big Dubai prize at Nad al Sheba after Sheikh Mohammed renamed him as a two-year-old.
They told him he could secure his place in history, perhaps even win a Nobel Peace Prize, if only he would abandon his commitment to missile defense.
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