The buyout group will pay $7.75 in cash for each Nobel share and assume about $52 million in debt in taking the for-profit grade school operator private, for a total value of $110 million.
Under the terms of the offer announced Tuesday, Incitec agreed to give Dyno Nobel shareholders a mix of stock and cash, comprising 0.01406 Incitec shares and 0.70 Australian dollars (64 cents) in cash for every Dyno Nobel share.
Thus, we learn, in measured terms, how Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel (shared with husband Pierre for discovering radioactivity) in 1903 but was not allowed to participate in the keynote lecture the winners traditionally give.
A Nobel prize, shared with Hodgkin (and also with John Eccles, an Australian scientist) came in 1963, the year after Watson's and Crick's.
Saul Perlmutter (A.B. 1981 Harvard, Ph.D. 1986 UC Berkeley) is a 2011 Nobel Laureate, sharing the prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe…." He is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
PAGE D1 3 Share Nobel in Chemistry Three scientists share this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a reaction in which pieces of molecules change places.
HOUSE & HOME, PAGE F1 Four Share Nobel Prizes Two Americans won the Nobel Prize Chemistry and an American and a Briton were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science.
I regret the comments of my physicist colleagues who referred to the achievement of those who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics as "an engineering feat, not a scientific one" and as having "little to do with fundamental science" ("3 Men Vital to the Internet Share Nobel Prize in Physics," news article, Oct. 11).
Pure economists looked askance at this perky, untidy figure, especially when she became the first woman to win a shared Nobel prize for economics in 2009.
Mr Miller got his Nobel in 1990, sharing it with two other economists.The citation picked out for special mention his work with Franco Modigliani, who had received the Nobel in 1985.
Four years later, he acknowledged De Klerk's courage in admitting that "a terrible wrong had been done to our country and people through the imposition of the system of apartheid" in his acceptance speech for their shared Nobel peace prize.
