LE MATIN: CRISE MIGRATOIRE — La récompense sera attribuée vendredi prochain, et la chancelière allemande a des chances de le décrocher pour son rôle dans les crises migratoire et ukrainienne.
Le quotidien allemand Bild estime vendredi que la chancelière Angela Merkel est une prétendante sérieuse au prix Nobel de la Paix qui sera attribué vendredi prochain, pour son rôle dans les crises migratoire et ukrainienne.
«La chancelière Angela Merkel a de bonnes perspectives d'obtenir le prix Nobel de la paix», relève le quotidien populaire le plus lu d'Allemagne en Une dans un court article titré «Le prix Nobel de la paix pour Angela Merkel?». » | afp/nxp | vendredi 1 octobre 2015
LE POINT: Pour Norman Solomon, l'un des initiateurs de la pétition, ce Nobel soulignerait l'importance des lanceurs d'alerte pour la paix et la démocratie.
Des soutiens de Bradley Manning, soldat américain jugé pour avoir transmis des documents confidentiels à WikiLeaks, ont remis lundi à l'Institut Nobel d'Oslo une pétition géante pour que le prix éponyme de la paix lui soit attribué. Selon eux, un tel prix permettrait aussi de dissiper "le nuage" qui "plane au-dessus du comité Nobel norvégien" depuis l'attribution de la prestigieuse récompense au président américain Barack Obama en 2009 alors qu'il était tout juste entré en fonction et qu'il venait de décider d'intensifier l'effort de guerre en Afghanistan.
"Personne n'a fait plus pour combattre ce que Martin Luther King Junior appelait la folie du militarisme que Bradley Manning", explique le texte qui a rassemblé plus de 103 000 signatures. "Et à présent, étant toujours en prison et faisant face aux poursuites judiciaires incessantes du gouvernement américain, personne n'a autant besoin du prix Nobel de la paix", peut-on y lire. » | Source AFP | lundi 12 août 2013
Sunday, April 01, 2012
Anders Behring Breivik 'Planned to Bomb Barack Obama at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony'
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik planned to bomb President Barack Obama as he came to collect his Nobel Peace Price in 2009, it has been claimed.
The far-Right extremist told Norwegian police of a plot to drive a car packed with explosives onto the square next to Oslo City Hall, and detonate it while the ceremony was taking place there, according to Norway's Dagbladet newspaper.
Breivik, 33,told police that the Obama attack would have been largely symbolic, as the security surrounding the visit would have prevented him bringing the vehicle sufficiently close to the ceremony.
But, with hundreds of millions watching on television, he believed it would have been a perfect way to promote his anti-Islamic message. » | Richard Orange | Malmö | Sunday, April 01, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Bill Clinton and Bradley Manning Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A total of 231 nominees are up for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the Nobel Institute said on Monday, with Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, the EU and US soldier and WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning known to be on the list.
"As always, there are the usual 'nominees' and some newcomers, some famous and some unknowns, hailing from the four corners of the world," the head of the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad, told AFP.
With 188 individuals and 43 organisations, the number of candidates comes close to last year's record of 241, when the award went to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee, and Yemeni "Arab Spring" activist Tawakkol Karman. » | AFP | Monday, February 27, 2012
Monday, October 12, 2009
The Obama Nobel Mystery
YNET NEWS: Obama’s Nobel Prize win a blatant attempt to Europeanize US policy
According to Alfred Nobel's will – and in contrast with other Nobel Prize committees – the members of the Nobel Prize for Peace committee are not experts, but politicians, members of the Norwegian Parliament.
The chairman of the committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Norway, is the Vice President and the Chairman of the Middle East Committee of the "Socialist International," known for its opposition to US and Israeli policies. He is, also, the Chairman of the "Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights," which advocates a Dovish-Leftist worldview, in cooperation with former President Jimmy Carter, who is close to President Obama and considered a role-model for the new Nobel laureate.
Along with other members of the Committee, Jagland represents a Parliament that has called to recognize Hamas, to dialogue with Iran, to tolerate rogue regimes, to enhance ties with Muslim regimes, to condemn (what he terms) Islamophobia and to condemn systematically the policies of Washington (until Obama's victory) and Jerusalem.
Awarding Obama the Nobel Peace Prize – in spite of the fact that the deadline for nominations was February 1, 10 days into Obama's Administration – constitutes a transparent attempt by European politicians to bolster Obama's determination in the global arena and improve his standing in the domestic arena. While Obama's stock has risen internationally, it has deteriorated internally, in light of his lack of success in the areas of unemployment, taxes, budget deficit, health insurance reform, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Russia and al-Qaeda. >>> Yoram Ettinger | Saturday, October 10, 2009
Barack Obama Win Mocks Nobel Peace Prize: Alexander Downer
THE AUSTRALIAN: THE Nobel Peace Prize was discredited if Barack Obama could be nominated for the award after just 11 days in office and win it nine months later, former foreign minister Alexander Downer said yesterday.
Mr Downer called the US President's surprise win a farce, saying it was a pity Mr Obama had not refused the award.
He singled out Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as a worthy alternative who had been ignored after years of struggling for human rights.
"The peace prize has to be for actual achievement - not potential - and it has to be achievement in promoting world peace, not raising the prestige of the American state, which is largely what Barack Obama has done so far," Mr Downer told the ABC.
Mr Obama had been in office for just 11 days when nominations for this year's Nobel Peace Prize closed on February 1. He spent most of those first days settling into the White House.
Although humbly questioning whether he was deserving, he described the prize as a "call to action".
The award's founder, Alfred Nobel, decreed the annual prize was to be bestowed for achievements "during the preceding year". According to his will, the winner "shall have done the most, or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses".
The Norwegian judges took an alternative approach, handing the prize to Mr Obama for future works. Thorbjorn Jagland, the committee's chairman, defended the award in the face of public outcry, saying: "It was because we would like to support what he is trying to achieve."
It took two other former US presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, a combined total of 12 years before they were given the award. >>> Brad Norington, Washington correspondent | Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Prix Nobel de la Paix : Un cadeau empoisonné?
J'ai levé les yeux vers le ciel. I looked heavenward. Ich schaute zum Himmel empor.
LE TEMPS: Lauréat du Nobel de la paix après seulement neuf mois de présidence, Barack Obama se déclare «étonné» et «touché». Il voit dans ce prix un appel à relever des défis
La caméra s’attardait sur son visage. A travers la vitre du Bureau ovale, on voyait le président concentré sur les feuilles de son discours, l’air un peu interdit, visiblement mal à l’aise à l’heure d’interpréter un rôle si mal préparé. L’attribution du Prix Nobel de la paix à Barack Obama est plus qu’une surprise. C’est un choix risqué, un défi, une gageure. En le cueillant à son réveil (l’annonce a été faite à Oslo tandis que l’Amérique dormait), le Comité du Nobel a désarçonné le président des Etats-Unis en exercice. Et, derrière lui, une bonne partie de la planète.
Le Prix Nobel de la paix? Ce n’est pas de paix que l’on parle ces jours à la Maison-Blanche. L’agenda du président incluait vendredi une réunion avec son Conseil de sécurité consacrée à la meilleure manière de poursuivre la guerre en Afghanistan. A Washington, l’atmosphère est ces jours à une autre guerre, de tranchées, entre les démocrates et les républicains à propos de la réforme du système de santé américain. Au Proche-Orient, dans le même temps, l’émissaire de la Maison-Blanche n’a pu que constater à quel point le climat est lourd aujourd’hui à Jérusalem, après que le monde s’est mis à rêver à l’avènement d’une paix prochaine. >>> Luis Lema | Samedi 10 Octobre 2009
Dieter Ruloff: Jetzt braucht er Erfolge
NZZ ONLINE: Mit dem Nobelpreis hat der weltweite Beifall für US-Präsident Obama einen neuen Höhepunkt erreicht. Doch innenpolitisch steckt Obama im Popularitätstief. Wenn es ihm nicht bald gelingt, sichtbare Erfolge zu erzielen, könnte die Präsidentschaftswahl 2012 für ihn zum Drama werden.
Man kann auch in die Höhe fallen, so wie in die Tiefe», sagte der Dichter Friedrich Hölderlin. Mitunter passiert beides, und zwar nacheinander, wie jetzt bei Obama, dem jungen, charismatischen Politiker, dem Mann mit Visionen, dem brillanten Rhetoriker mit messianischer Aura, der den Wandel predigte und schliesslich, die politische Schwerkraft überwindend, in eineinhalb Jahren vom Jungsenator zum mächtigsten Mann der Welt und Nobelpreisträger in die Höhe fiel.
Die neueste Ehrung potenziert nochmals die Erwartungen an ihn. Er habe seinem Volk «Hoffnung auf eine bessere Zukunft» gegeben, lautet die Begründung in Oslo. Faktisch läuft es für Obama an allen Fronten jedoch zunehmend schlecht, Erwartungen und Erreichtes klaffen je länger je weiter auseinander. Der Fall in die Tiefe, zumindest jene der Umfragen, kam postwendend: Die Zustimmung von anfangs fast 70 Prozent im Februar schrumpfte auf jetzt nur noch gut 50 Prozent. Das ist noch immer massiv besser als die zuletzt nur 22 Prozent Zustimmung für George W. Bush. Aber es schmerzt doch, gerade weil Bush ja die Hauptschuld trifft – hat er seinem Nachfolger doch ein schier unvorstellbares Desaster hinterlassen. Zwei glücklose Kriege, die Wirtschaft im freien Fall, das Ansehen weltweit ruiniert, die Geheimdienste demoralisiert und last, but not least Schulden über Schulden.
Nach hundert Tagen schien die Bilanz Obamas noch glänzend, die Hoffnungen auf ihn mehr als berechtigt: Bankenrettung und Konjunkturprogramm; Politikwechsel um 180 Grad bei Guantánamo, in der Umwelt- und der Sicherheitspolitik; die Subventionsschlucker Chrysler und GM auf Trab gebracht; Charmeoffensive in Europa und im Nahen Osten mit durchschlagendem Erfolg.
Man hat Obama noch im Frühjahr Hyperaktivismus vorgeworfen, er packe zu viel zu rasch an, werde das Tempo nicht durchstehen können. Dies ist wohl nicht das Problem, denn Obama dominiert so gut wie täglich die Medien in den USA und der Welt. Aber die Meldungen werden kritischer, der Präsident muss immer öfter mit Appellen an die Öffentlichkeit, erklären, reparieren, gegensteuern. Die Absage an Chicago bei der Vergabe der Olympischen Spiele – trotz grossem Engagement des Präsidentenehepaars – war nur die letzte in einer Reihe von Niederlagen. Der Nobelpreis lenkt im besten Falle etwas ab; den politischen Alltag mit all seinen Widrigkeiten verändert der Preis nicht. >>> Von Dieter Ruloff | Sonntag, 11. Oktober 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Cuba's Fidel Castro Hails Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
THE TELEGRAPH: Cuba's Fidel Castro is the latest world leader to opine on the controversial award of the Nobel peace prize to President Barack Obama.
But the endorsement of the veteran communist revolutionary may be the last thing Mr Obama wanted, as his words will only strengthen conservative complaints that the prize was an anti-American gesture.
The former dictator, who handed power to his brother Raul last year after falling seriously ill, made clear that he believed the award was primarily a repudiation of Mr Obama's predecessors.
"Many believe that he still has not earned the right to receive such a distinction," he wrote in a column published in state media. "But we would like to see, more than a prize for the US president, a criticism of the genocidal policies that have been followed by more than a few presidents of that country."
Mr Castro, 83, who has spent half a century railing at international bodies, said he had often disagreed with the choice of Norway's Nobel judges.
But this time, he noted modestly, "I must admit that in this case, in my opinion, it was a positive step". >>> Philip Sherwell in New York and Leonard Doyle in Washington | Saturday, October 10, 2009
Prize Fools
TIMES ONLINE: The Nobel committee’s award to President Obama demeans the peace prize, appears politically partisan and should embarrass the White House
When Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, the satirist Tom Lehrer remarked that he saw no further need to perform as the award had made satire obsolete. By offering the world’s most prestigious political accolade to Barack Obama, a man who has held office for barely nine months, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is in danger of putting the entire comedy industry out of business.
The committee has put hope above results, promise above achievement. The prize undermines the selfless triumphs of earlier winners. Indeed, the award’s obvious political intent looks partisan, a signal of European relief at the end of the Bush presidency.
The pretext for the prize was Mr Obama’s action in “strengthening international co-operation between peoples”. That is a worthy aim and America’s re-engagement in multilateral diplomacy has been warmly welcomed by its allies. But it is hard to point to any substantive results yet. Much was promised to the Muslim world in the President’s speech in Cairo; on the ground, the failure still to achieve any tangible progress towards a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians has left all sides disillusioned. In Moscow, the talk of pressing the reset button in relations was welcome, as was Mr Obama’s abandonment of the US missile shield in Europe. But so far none of this has led to the scrapping of any more nuclear warheads.
The nomination of Mr Obama, among more than 200 other contenders, had to be made within weeks of his inauguration. Was this a message of support for the election of America’s first black president? Or was it a self-defeating way of trying to align the peace committee with the excitement that marked his first few weeks in office? Mr Obama yesterday responded with characteristic eloquence and modesty in announcing his acceptance. He would, however, have done better to have let it be known to those sounding out the White House beforehand that he saw the prize as premature, ill judged and embarrassing at a time when he is preoccupied with fighting a war in Afghanistan. >>> | Saturday, October 10, 2009
TIMES ONLINE: At 5.45am yesterday Robert Gibbs was woken by a network television producer calling him at home. “This’d better be good,” the White House press secretary grumbled. It was, the producer assured him. President Obama had just won the Nobel Peace Prize. “Oh, that is good,” Mr Gibbs replied.
At the end of an extraordinary whirlwind day that began for Mr Obama with a call to the Lincoln Bedroom moments later, he may justly be questioning his aide’s initial judgment. At home, admirers met the news with astonishment, bafflement and, in some cases, laughter. Across the globe, reaction ranged from polite congratulation and wild effusion to outrage and scepticism.
Conservative critics greeted the news with glee, an affirmation of their belief that Mr Obama is beloved in Europe just for being a celebrity, adored for what he says, not what he does — or, as his Texan predecessor would say, all hat and no cattle.
Without question, the choice is political. The Nobel Peace Prize is a notoriously difficult award to predict but one thread of consistency since 2000 has been the award committee’s implacable hatred of the Bush Administration.
Three of the past six peace awards have gone to Bush adversaries. In 2002 the prize went to Jimmy Carter as an explicit rejection of the Bush presidency in the build-up to the Iraq war. In 2005 Mohamed ElBaradei, the UN atomic agency chief who had clashed with Washington over the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, was honoured. In 2007 Al Gore received the prize for his warnings on climate change, denounced by President Bush as a liberal myth.
Mr Obama’s is a fourth and perfect example of what Nobel scholars call the growing aspirational trend of Nobel committees over the past three decades, by which awards are given not for what has been achieved but in support of the cause being fought for. Obama ‘celebrity reward’ Nobel Prize is greeted with glee by critics >>> Catherine Philp, Diplomatic Correspondent, and Tim Reid in Washington | Saturday, October 10, 2009
Rush Limbaugh: The Nobel Prize Is Part of an Effort to ‘Neuter’ America
Friday, October 09, 2009
Talk and Win
Barack Hussein Obama could hardly believe his luck this morning. In fact, he almost choked on his corn flakes when he heard the news! Less than a year ago, he duped the American public into believing that he could bring the American electorate change; though the voters forgot to ask him what kind of change he was talking about. Silly them!
Ever since, he has spent his time as sitting president moving around. There are so many places in America where he can use the gift he has been given: the gift of the gab. In fact, since taking office, he has done little else other than talk. He talks so much that there is little time to do anything else. And of course, without doing anything, he cannot achieve. Why does he talk so much? Because it is doubtful that he is capable of achieving anything, and anyway he loves the sound of his own voice. It sounds so sonorous to him. To him, that is!
Now this! He has learnt his lesson fast, though. We must grant him that. He has learnt that one doesn’t have to achieve anything real to get the Nobel Peace Prize. All one has to do is talk – talk, talk, talk, and loftily. Talk, talk, talk, and win, win, win, win. Win prizes here and win prizes there.
Oh yes, and Obama will sleep better tonight, since with this medal comes about a million euros. Plenty of sleeveless dresses there, Michelle! – Mark
For All My Good Intentions
I would like all my visitors to know that I want all people in this troubled world to live in peace and harmony, and I want them to love one another. Poverty must be eliminated. Moreover, all weapons of any kind must be destroyed. There will be no more wars. I intend to continue working towards these goals.
Please be so kind as to nominate me for the Nobel Peace Prize of 2010. I surely deserve it. After all, the road to Oslo is paved with good intentions. – Mark
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.
The stunning choice made President Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. President Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.
"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the committee said. "His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."
The committee said it attached special importance to President Obama's vision of, and work for, a world without nuclear weapons.
"Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play," the committee said.
Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson won in 1919. Former President Jimmy Carter won the award in 2002, while former Vice President Al Gore shared the 2007 prize with the U.N. panel on climate change. >>> Associated Press | Friday, October 09, 2009
Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize. For What?
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: This is completely bizarre. President Barack Obama has just won the nobel peace prize. It is unclear why. For making peace, of a kind, with Hillary Clinton? For giving up the missile shield and cheering up the Iranians? For preparing a surge of troops and weaponry in Afghanistan? >>> Iain Martin | Friday, October 09, 2009
AFP: KABUL — The Taliban Friday condemned Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, saying rather than bring peace to Afghanistan he had boosted troop numbers and continued the aggressive policies of his predecessor.
"We have seen no change in his strategy for peace. He has done nothing for peace in Afghanistan," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP.
"We condemn the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for Obama," he said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
"When Obama was elected president, we were hopeful he would keep his promise to bring change. But he brought no change, he has continued the same old strategy as (President George W.) Bush. Taliban condemns Obama's Nobel Peace Prize >>> Waheedullah Massoud (AFP) | Friday, October 09, 2009
TIME: The last thing Barack Obama needed at this moment in his presidency and our politics is a prize for a promise.
Inspirational words have brought him a long way — including to the night in Grant Park less than a year ago when he asked that we "join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand."
By now there are surely more callouses on his lips than his hands. He, like every new president, has reckoned with both the power and the danger of words, dangers that are especially great for one who wields them as skillfully as he. A promise beautifully made raises hopes especially high: we will revive the economy while we rein in our spending; we will make health care simpler, safer, cheaper, fairer. We will rid the earth of its most lethal weapons. We will turn green and clean. We will all just get along.
So when reality bites, it chomps down hard. The Nobel committee cited "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." His critics fault some of those efforts: those who favor a missile shield for Poland or a troop surge in Afghanistan or a harder line on Iran. But even his fans know that none of the dreams have yet come true, and a prize for even dreaming them can feed the illusion that they have. Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: The Last Thing He Needs >>> Nancy Gibbs | Friday, October 09, 2009
«Un prix encombrant pour la poursuite de son mandat»
LE FIGARO: ANALYSE VIDEO - Selon Philippe Gélie, chef du service international du Figaro, le jury du Nobel n'a peut-être pas fait un cadeau à Obama en lui attribuant ce prix à la surprise générale.
Pour Philippe Gélie, chef du service international du Figaro, Barack Obama n'a pas encore d'énormes succès diplomatiques à son crédit, «c'est sans précédent je crois qu'un chef de l'Etat soit primé aussi tôt dans son mandat».
Il souligne également que ce prix pourra être lourd à porter pour un président dont le monde attend déjà énormément : «Est-ce qu'il a besoin, dix mois après le début de son mandat, d'être aussi prix Nobel de la paix?»
TIMES ONLINE: The award of this year’s Nobel peace prize to President Obama will be met with widespread incredulity, consternation in many capitals and probably deep embarrassment by the President himself.
Rarely has an award had such an obvious political and partisan intent. It was clearly seen by the Norwegian Nobel committee as a way of expressing European gratitude for an end to the Bush Administration, approval for the election of America’s first black president and hope that Washington will honour its promise to re-engage with the world.
Instead, the prize risks looking preposterous in its claims, patronising in its intentions and demeaning in its attempt to build up a man who has barely begun his period in office, let alone achieved any tangible outcome for peace.
The pretext for the prize was Mr Obama’s decision to “strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples”. Many people will point out that, while the President has indeed promised to “reset” relations with Russia and offer a fresh start to relations with the Muslim world, there is little so far to show for his fine words.
East-West relations are little better than they were six months ago, and any change is probably due largely to the global economic downturn; and America’s vaunted determination to re-engage with the Muslim world has failed to make any concrete progress towards ending the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
There is a further irony in offering a peace prize to a president whose principal preoccupation at the moment is when and how to expand the war in Afghanistan.
The spectacle of Mr Obama mounting the podium in Oslo to accept a prize that once went to Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi and Mother Theresa would be all the more absurd if it follows a White House decision to send up to 40,000 more US troops to Afghanistan. However just such a war may be deemed in Western eyes, Muslims would not be the only group to complain that peace is hardly compatible with an escalation in hostilities. Comment: absurd decision on Obama makes a mockery of the Nobel peace prize >>> Michael Binyon | Friday, October 09, 2009
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Physik: Nobelpreis für die Erfinder der Digital-Fotografie und den Meister des Lichts
ZEIT ONLINE: Ohne sie gäbe es weder Breitband-Internet noch digitale Fotos: Die Physik-Nobelpreisträger 2009 revolutionierten den Alltag und ermöglichten die Informationsgesellschaft.
Charles K. Kao, heute an der Universität Hongkong, schaffte die Grundlage dafür, dass Glasfasern Licht leiten. Ein Effekt, der nicht nur diese Glasfaser-Lampe zum Leuchten bringt, sondern auch die digitale Übertragung von Bilder ermöglicht. Bild: Zeit Online
E-Mails, Digitalfotos im Internet, Videos auf dem Handy – all das gibt es nur, weil wir Daten rasant durch Glasfasern schicken und Bilder digital auf Chips speichern. Möglich wurde dies zu einem großen Teil durch die Forschung dreier Physiker, die in diesem Jahr dafür den Nobelpreis erhalten.
Für ihre Arbeiten im Bereich der Glasfaseroptik und der Telekommunikation erhalten die beiden US-Wissenschaftler George Elwood Smith und Willard Sterling Boyle von den Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill im US-Bundesstaat New Jersey die Hälfte der Auszeichnung. Sie teilen sich den Preis mit dem gebürtigen Chinesen Charles Kuen Kao von der Universität Honkong.
Das Internet gäbe es ohne Kao nicht, man könnte nicht in alle Welt günstig telefonieren, geschweige denn Bilder um den ganzen Globus senden – Godehard Walf, Ingenieur für Nachrichtentechnik
Kao hatte bereits 1966 als erster Lichtsignale über weite Strecken in einem Kabel aus Glas übertragen. "Die Kabel, die es zuvor gab, konnten Licht wenn überhaupt 20 Meter weit leiten. Kao identifizierte das Problem und machte die industrielle Herstellung von Glasfaserkabeln möglich", sagte der Sprecher des Nobelpreis-Komitees auf der Pressekonferenz in der Königlich-Schwedischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Stockholm. >>> Von Dagny Lüdemann, Sven Stockrahm and Alina Schadwinkel | Dienstag, 06. Oktober 2009
Carla Sarkozy demande la libération de Aung San Suu Kyi
Carla Bruni avec la reine Elizabeth II à Londres lors de la visite d'État au Royaume-Uni. Photo grâce aux Google Images
LE PARISIEN: Carla Sarkozy a demandé lundi la libération de Aung San Suu Kyi, dans une «lettre ouverte au gouvernement de Birmanie», dont une copie a été transmise par l'Elysée aux agences de presse.
«Nous savons désormais qu'Aung San Suu Kyi, prix Nobel de la Paix, risque d'être condamnée à nouveau à une peine d'emprisonnement qui, compte tenu de son état de santé, menace sa vie même», écrit la première dame de France, dans cette lettre datée de lundi et portant comme en-tête «Carla Sarkozy».
«Au-delà de la situation politique en Birmanie, je profite de la position qui est la mienne et de l'écho dont cette lettre pourrait bénéficier pour me faire le porte-parole de tous ceux, dans mon pays, qui trouvent intolérable le sort réservé à cette femme», écrit-elle. >>> | Lundi 18 Mai 2009
