Hundreds of Amazon employers protested on Tuesday against working conditions in Berlin, where the megagroup's founder Jeff Bezos was due to receive a prize.
UPDATE: German scientist Stefan Hell and two Americans have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for advancing the microscope, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday.
The 94-year-old Artur Fischer, a lifelong inventor and creator of the plastic wall screw plug, was given the European Inventor Award on Tuesday. The prolific innovator with more than 1,100 patents to his name is our German of the Week.
