Nobel Prize
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30 years ago, Nobel Prize crowned hopes of Mideast peace
Oct 4, 2024The Nobel Peace Prize given to the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort thirty years ago is one of the most contentious ever, with a terrorist label applied to the winner, a jury member resigning, and a massacre taking... -
Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman dies at 90
Mar 28, 2024Daniel Kahneman, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Behavioral Economics and the father of theories that greatly impacted the field, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 90, according to his company. The best-selling... -
Claudia Goldin wins 2023 award for Nobel economics
Oct 10, 2023The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to American economist and historian Claudia Goldin. Goldin “provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labor market outcomes throughout the centuries,” according to the... -
Economics prize closes out 2023 Nobel season
Oct 9, 2023On Monday, the annual Nobel prizes season will come to an end with the award for economics. Experts in the fields of credit, the job market, or inequities are likely to be among the nominees. Claudia... -
Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse wins Nobel literature prize
Oct 5, 2023The Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, whose works are among the most often performed of any contemporary playwright in Europe, received the Nobel literature prize on Thursday from the Swedish Academy. He was honoured “for his innovative... -
Kariko, Weissman win Nobel for mRNA Covid vaccines
Oct 2, 2023Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines. The pair, who had... -
Nobel Prizes to illuminate bleak year for world peace
Sep 29, 2023The Nobel Prize announcements next week will honor a number of ground-breaking accomplishments, but with wars raging all over the world, experts asked about potential Peace Prize winners are baffled. The centerpiece of the week of... -
US-French duo win Nobel Chemistry Prize for gene editing tool
Oct 8, 2020France scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and US scientist Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the gene-editing system known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping “scissors”. With this, for the first time, a Nobel science prize has... -
Three astrophysicists won the Nobel Prize in Physics this year
Oct 7, 2020The Nobel jury said Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany, and Andrea Ghez of the United States had won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their research on black holes. The Nobel... -
Two American and one British scientist won the Nobel Prize in Medicine
Oct 5, 2020Two American scientists, Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice, and a British scientist, Michael Hogton, have jointly won the Nobel Prize for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The jury board said the three...
