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Nobel Literature Prize 2020: Controversy or crowdpleaser?
Names tossed about in the speculation include Caribbean-American author Jamaica Kincaid, Canadian poet Anne Carson, Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Hungary’s Peter Nadas and…
US-UK-Japan trio win chemistry Nobel for lithium-ion battery
The trio will receive the prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10
US ‘green growth’ duo win Nobel Economics Prize
US economists William Nordhaus and Paul Romer have shared the 2018 Nobel Economics Prize for constructing ‘green growth’ models
Trio win Nobel Physics Prize for laser research
Arthur Ashkin was honoured for his invention of "optical tweezers"
‘Remains of the Day’ author Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel
Author Kazuo Ishiguro is the new winner of the Nobel Literature Prize for his renowned novel The Remains of the Day
‘Masters of light’ win Nobel Physics Prize
Charles Kao, Willard Boyle and George Smith on Tuesday won the 2009 Nobel Physics Prize for pioneering work on fibre optics and semiconductors.
US trio wins Nobel Medicine Prize for research into ageing
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for identifying a key molecular switch in cellular ageing.
Doris Lessing wins Nobel Literature Prize
British writer Doris Lessing on Thursday won the Nobel Prize for Literature for five decades of epic novels that have covered feminism, politics as well her youth in Africa.…
Happy Birthday, here’s your Nobel Prize
Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday, his 71st birthday, for pioneering work in surface chemistry that has become invaluable to industry, from…
Hard-disk breakthrough earns duo Nobel Physics Prize
Albert Fert of France and Peter Gruenberg of Germany on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize for Physics for work that led to the miniaturised hard disk, one of the breakthroughs of…
‘Knockout mice’ win scientist trio the Nobel Prize
Mario Capecchi and Oliver Smithies of the United States and Martin Evans of Britain won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for their work in creating ”knockout mice”, the…
US scientist wins Nobel, 47 years after his father
Roger Kornberg of the United States won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for work on a key process of life called genetic transcription. Kornberg (59) received the…
Nobel Prize for Medicine: Silence is golden
Two young United States scientists, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello, on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize for discovering how to silence malfunctioning genes, a breakthrough which…
Swedish women cock their rifles as hunting season starts
A record number of women are expected to take part in Sweden’s annual moose hunt when it opens next week, with women now making up a quarter of those passing hunting exams,…