Nobel Prize

News Hour: The English author Kazuo Ishiguro has been named winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, praised by the Swedish Academy for his “novels of great emotional force”, which it said had “uncovered the abyss...

News Hour: Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution,” the Nobel committee announced Wednesday. Cryo-electron microscopy is...

News Hour: The 2017 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to three US scientists for the detection of gravitational waves – which were predicted by Einstein. Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish will share...

News Hour: US geneticists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young were awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize Monday for shedding light on the internal biological clock that governs the wake-sleep cycles of most living...

News Hour: Maryam Mirzakhani, the math genius from Iran, was born on May 3, 1977. She became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, the highest award in mathematics, aka the Nobel Prize of...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said an accord to end a 52-year civil war with Marxist rebels was a “ray of hope” for solving conflicts from Syria to South Sudan as he collected the Nobel Peace...

News Hour: For an artist who has released 37 albums and written (or co-written) 522 songs, it would seem unusual for Bob Dylan to be at a loss for words. https://youtu.be/FS-ADKh1JmE But the 75-year-old singer-songwriter said...

News Hour: The American singer-songwriter, a cultural icon of dissent and protest from the 1960s onward, has said nothing about the award announced two weeks ago. But under Nobel rules, the winner must give one lecture...

News Hour: Nobel prize-winning Italian playwright, director and political activist Dario Fo, an acclaimed satirist who poked a finger in the eye of the church and state, has died aged 90, officials said on Thursday. Famous...

News Hour: Nobel prize-winning Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail, who served as a science and technology advisor to US President Barack Obama, died on Tuesday in the United States at the age of 70, Egypt’s presidency announced,...