Nobel season opens with Medicine Prize
- 07-Oct-2019
The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in Oslo on Friday, October 11, with Swedish teen climate activist Greta seen as the favorite on betting sites such as Ladbrokes.
What would Alfred Nobel say about prize for finance?
- 08-Oct-2016
STOCKHOLM: The Nobel prize in economics, to be announced on Monday, has increasingly honoured research in the field of finance — a subject which, observers note, is far from founder Alfred Nobel’s philanthropic ideals. The economics prize has always been set apart from the other Nobel awards, and the subject of much controversy: unlike the […]
Alfred Nobel used dynamite fortune to create prizes
- 30-Sep-2016
STOCKHOLM: Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel, who made a vast fortune from his invention of dynamite in 1866, ordered the creation of the famous Nobel prizes in his will. His 1895 testament stipulated his fortune was to be placed in a fund destined to honour “those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred […]
Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Literature Prize
- 08-Oct-2015
STOCKHOLM: Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich on Thursday won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy said.
Beating parasites wins three scientists Nobel Prize for Medicine
- 05-Oct-2015
STOCKHOLM: Three scientists from Japan, China and Ireland whose discoveries led to the development of potent new drugs against parasitic diseases such as malaria and elephantiasis won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday.
Happy Birthday to the man behind The Nobel Prizes
- 21-Oct-2014
Globally acclaimed Nobel Prizes were established by Alfred Nobel. It's his birthday today!
Nobel Prize for medicine goes to discoverers of brain’s internal GPS
- 06-Oct-2014
STOCKHOLM: Anglo-American John O'Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for discovering the brain's internal positioning system, helping humans find their way and giving clues to how strokes and Alzheimer's affect the brain.