Scientific Prizes And Competitions

The winners of the 2008 National Medal of Science: -Berni Alder, for developing computer methods useful for conceiving and executing experimental shock-wave simulations.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama linked scientific discovery to helping the struggling economy Wednesday as he honored those who invented batteries for implanted defibrillators, mapped the human genetic code and made global positioning systems possible.

NEW YORK - The next time you snap a digital photo and post it to Facebook, you can probably thank the three men who won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday.