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The physics 2021 Nobel prize means the conversation is no longer about debating whether climate change is real, but rather what we should do about it
The prime minister may have won the Nobel Peace Prize but he has failed to quell the violence in his own backyard
The winners of the Nobel prize in economics experiment on poor people, but their research doesn’t solve poverty
The trio will receive the prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm on December 10
Yale economist William Nordhaus has devoted his life’s work to understanding the costs of climate change
Canadian scientist Donna Strickland became just the third woman in history to win the Nobel Physics Prize
Annan was a career diplomat who is widely credited for raising the world body’s profile in global politics during his two terms as UN chief
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We are content when our leading brains give intellectual aid to our former colonisers while our countries could do with their knowledge.
The singer-songwriter has always stood for a craftsmanship and artistry that make his Nobel deserved and unsurprising.
And the Companions of OR Tambo award for friendly foreigners goes to … the Guptas, of course.
Belarussian Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel prize for literature for her thousands of oral histories that map the implosion of the Soviet Union.
Not an easy man to have on your side, Günter Grass was a writer who had the gall to spit into the soup of the high and mighty.
Frenchman Jean Tirole has won the economics Nobel for his work on how governments can rein in big businesses, in a field once dominated by the US.
The arrival of such lamps changes the way places are lit, offering longer-lasting and more efficient alternatives to 19th-century incandescent bulbs.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Madiba’s comrades had "spat in his face" with denying the Dalai Lama a visa for the summit that was to honour Mandela.
Writer and political activist Nadine Gordimer (90) has died peacefully in her sleep, according to a family statement.
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It was a simple declarative sentence, as are all Nobel Prize announcements…
Three US scientists have won the Nobel prize for chemistry for work on computer programs which simulate complex chemical processes.
A Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban and a Japanese author who writes about alienation and a fractured world are tipped as Nobel Prize winners.
Nobel prize-giving begins this week, and handing out the awards may sound simple enough but barely a year goes by without mishap and confusion.
Thousands of Japanese joined a march against nuclear power as worries grow about the restarting of reactors idle since the March 11 meltdown disaster.
A growing chorus of critics has warned that Israel’s educational mix will compromise the country’s ability to continue generating dazzling technology.
The Nobel season opens Monday with the medicine prize and all eyes are fixed on the prestigious peace prize.
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Researchers who discovered stem cells and the appetite hormone leptin are named in the 2010 Thomson Reuters predictions to win Nobel prizes.
Two Japanese scientists and a Tokyo-born American shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for physics for discoveries in sub-atomic particles.
Leonid Hurwicz, the oldest Nobel Prize recipient who shared the award in economics last year, has died at age 90.