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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…
The poverty of poor economics
The winners of the Nobel prize in economics experiment on poor people, but their research doesn’t solve poverty
Nobel prize for medicine awarded for immune system work
The 2011 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology has been awarded to a trio of researchers for increasing mankind’s understanding of the immune system.
Record 241 nominations for Nobel Peace Prize
A record 241 nominations were submitted for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize and the Norwegian jury has now begun the secretive process to select a winner.
American trio wins 2007 Nobel Economics Prize
American economists Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Economics on Monday for laying the foundations of an economic theory that…
Al Gore, UN climate panel win Nobel Peace Prize
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded on Friday to former United States vice-president Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It was awarded ”for…
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…