This is a statistical techniques prize — both men worked on methods for extracting insight from the data history provides us, which generally don't offer anything like a controlled experiment.
Technique was prized and promoted.
Mr. Wu's landscapes, which combine Western oil painting and Chinese ink techniques, are prized by collectors.
Mr. Turner, the saxophonist, and Mr. Iverson, the pianist, are part of a new jazz scene that isn't free-jazz, isn't neobop, isn't the self-conscious, smarty-pants downtown thing; it prizes technique, stretches harmony and tries to expand the mainstream by setting up its own canon.
This more difficult technique was highly prized, and became especially popular for luxury surfaces in the 4th century, an abundant example of which is the Basilica of Junius Bassus.
(For their work on the film, Mr. Chang and the cinematographers Christopher Doyle and Mark Li Ping-bin were awarded the Grand Prix de la Technique, the technical grand prize, at Cannes).
Mr. Naidu talked of prizing the technique of classical ballet itself, and of the clarity, precision and fine articulation he expects from his dancers.
Daniel Karslake's documentary "For the Bible Tells Me So" won't win any prizes for technique, but innovation surely ranks very low on this filmmaker's to-do list.
And that is raising doubts about how quickly, if at all, the Nobel Prize-winning technique for turning off specific genes will yield the promised bounty of innovative medicines.
The newly crowned world champion might not win any prizes for technique but what he lacks in style is compensated for by an abundance of heart, will and determination.
Rayleigh was right, and today the jets are the basis for a Nobel Prize-winning technique called electrospray ionization, which is widely used to study the structure of large biomolecules.
