1.   Alvaro Umana, the former Costa Rican environment minister and a juror on the prize committee, announced the award Wednesday in Mexico City.

2.   At the final stage, winners selected by judging panels are approved by the prize committee, made up of permanent residents of Greece or people of Greek ancestry.

3.   Despite such errors, some science prize committees do take chances in rewarding scientists for controversial research.

4.   He was a member of the team that developed the Saturn automobile and was partly responsible for its innovative traction control system, the prize committee said.

5.   Its purpose is to foster a political point of view, to confer legitimacy on an individual or group deemed politically correct by the prize committee.

6.   Prize committees then began to include Kohler in the kudos they showered down on the monoclonal antibody technique, also known as the hybridoma technique.

7.   Similar reasoning led, after much debate in the prize committee, to the selection of play writing as the field to be awarded the first prizes.

8.   She spent much of her career quietly teaching and writing, away from lecture tours, prize committees and television appearances.

9.   The prize committee includes several other friends and associates of Lukas, who committed suicide.

10.   The prize committee cited their work on the consequences of incomplete financial information.