Such flattery usually sounds insincere or ridiculous, but not when applied to George Catlett ... and far-sighted Marshall Plan, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953.

This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three US pharmacologists for their discovery that the unstable gas, nitric oxide (NO), is an essential regulator of vasodilation.

Since the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901, there have definitely been some questionable choices made. For example, Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or ...