Bosnian war survivors, including mothers who lost husbands and sons in the Srebrenica massacre, protested Tuesday in Sarajevo, urging the Nobel Committee to reverse its decision to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature to Austrian writer Peter Handke.
Read moreA Norwegian lawmaker has nominated the “people of Hong Kong” for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, a move sure to arouse fury in Beijing.
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded Monday to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 in recognition of his efforts to end his country’s two-decade border conflict with Eritrea.
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A Polish novelist and an Austrian writer were awarded Noble Prizes for literature Thursday, a rare double award that came after no prize was given last year due to sex abuse allegations in the organization that decides the winners.
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Three scientists on Wednesday were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries, which have reshaped energy storage and transformed cars, mobile phones and many other devices in an increasingly portable and electronic world.
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Three scientists won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their work in understanding how the universe has evolved, and the Earth’s place in it.
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The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded Monday to two Americans and a British scientist for their discoveries of how the body’s cells sense and react to oxygen levels.
Read moreThe man with ties to the Swedish Academy that awards the Nobel Prize in literature has lost his appeal to have his rape conviction and a two-year prison sentence reversed and has been convicted of a second rape.
Read moreA member of the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in literature says she is leaving the body that has been marred by sex-abuse and financial crimes scandals.
Read moreJapanese-born Marine biologist Osamu Shimomura, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, has died. He was 90.
Read moreTwo Americans won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for studying a pressing issue facing the global economy: how to deal with pollution and climate change and how to foster the innovation needed to tackle such problems.
Read moreThe Nobel Peace Prize on Friday was awarded to a Congolese doctor and an Iraqi woman who was held captive by the Islamic State group for their work to highlight and eliminate the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.
Read moreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded Wednesday to two National Institutes of Health grantees, Drs. Frances H. Arnold, of the California Institute of Technology, for directed evolution of enzymes, and George P. Smith, of the University of Missouri-Columbia, who shares the prize with Dr. Gregory P. Winter, of the University of Cambridge, U.K., for the phage display of peptides and antibodies.
Read moreScientists have been applauding the winners of the Nobel chemistry prize, saying that that it highlights the practical role chemistry plays in our daily lives.
Read moreFrance’s President Emmanuel Macron has paid tribute to the French co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, saying the award highlights French research and its applications.
Read moreImmunologist Tasuku Honjo of Japan, co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in medicine, says he began his research after a medical school classmate died from stomach cancer less than two years after it was discovered.
Read moreThe man at the center of a sex abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy awarding the Nobel Literature Prize was remanded in custody Monday, pending the verdict in his trial.
Read moreThe man at the center of a sex-abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, was Tuesday charged with two counts of rape of a woman in 2011.
Read moreAn investigation into sexual misconduct allegations at the Swedish body that hands out the coveted Nobel Prize in Literature found Friday that “unacceptable behavior in the form of unwanted intimacy” has taken place within the ranks of the prestigious institution.
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