US auction theory pioneers win Nobel economics prize
- 12-Oct-2020
US academics Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the 2020 Nobel Economics on Monday for work on auctions hailed as benefiting buyers and sellers around the world
Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed wins 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
- 11-Oct-2019
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his peacemaking efforts with Eritrea.
Maryse Conde wins alternative literature prize in absence of Nobel
- 12-Oct-2018
STOCKHOLM: Maryse Conde from the French Caribbean territory of Guadeloupe was awarded the New Academy Prize in Literature, created after the Swedish Academy postponed this year’s literary Nobel as it sought to deal with the aftermath of a rape scandal. The New Academy was founded by more than 100 Swedish cultural figures earlier this year […]
Trio wins chemistry Nobel for work on antibody drugs and detergents
- 03-Oct-2018
Two Americans and a Briton won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for harnessing the power of evolution to produce novel proteins used in everything from environmentally friendly detergents and biofuels to cancer drugs.
Lazer pioneers win Nobel Physics Prize
- 02-Oct-2018
Three scientists won the Nobel Physics Prize for inventing optical lasers that have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in corrective eye surgery and in industry.
Kurdish refugee wins ‘Nobel of mathematics’ Fields medal
- 02-Aug-2018
Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University math professor Caucher Birkar was among four winners of the prestigious Fields prize, dubbed the Nobel for mathematics.
Swedish intellectuals form new literature prize in Nobel protest
- 07-Jul-2018
More than 100 Swedish intellectuals have joined forces to form a new prize-giving body in protest as this year's Nobel Literature Prize is postponed.
No Nobel Literature Prize after #MeToo turmoil
- 04-May-2018
For the first time in almost 70 years there will be no Nobel Literature Prize this year, after the Swedish Academy that selects the laureate failed to contain a deep crisis stemming from the anti-sexual harassment #MeToo campaign.
Hiroshima survivor to accept Nobel Peace Prize for nuclear watchdog
- 29-Oct-2017
OTTAWA: Setsuko Thurlow was 13 years old and standing only a mile away from ground zero when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. More than 62 years after that horrific day, she will jointly accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of this year’s laureate, the […]
War and the prize: how some Nobel laureates turn away from peace
- 27-Sep-2017
OSLO: Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the latest in a long line of Nobel Peace Prize laureates to disappoint many of those who once applauded her, and probably won’t be the last, a cautionary tale for the 2017 laureate who will be named next week. Suu Kyi is facing international criticism, including from […]