In 2005, they won the Nobel Prize for their discovery.
Watson, Crick, and Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discovery.
Were it not for their discovery by archaeologists, we would be hard put to guess their provenance.
For their discovery of this effect, Gross, Wilczek, and Politzer were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize for Physics.
With Luc Montagnier, she was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of H.I.V.
Afterwards, he washes their bodies (victims of strangulation, we learn, often defecate upon their death) and leaves them posed for their discovery, sometimes even painting their nails.
In 2005, two Australian doctors received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery that ulcers, long thought to be connected to emotional stress, were caused by bacteria.
The year before two Americans and a German bagged the prize "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations".
For their discovery, Dr. Nüsslein-VolharDr.Dr. Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
This year's laureates are notably de-Americanised: most spectacularly with the award to Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi for their discovery of the Aids virus.
The joint astronomy and biology prize went to Eric Warrant's team at the University of Lund for their discovery that dung beetles navigate using the stars.
