Tag: Nobel Prize
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Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson who combines the classical and the modern wins Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday ... -
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win Nobel Prize in medicine
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their research into light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. The ... -
Nobel economics prize goes to three researchers for explaining innovation-driven economic growth
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics yesterday for explaining how innovation creates new products and promotes economic growth ... -
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the prize in literature
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature yesterday for work ... -
Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on immune system
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is ... -
153 winners of Nobel and World Food prizes seek new ways to grow food to meet surging global need
More than 150 recipients of the Nobel and World Food prizes released an open letter yesterday calling for a dramatic increase in research and a commitment to new ... -
Physiology Nobel Prize winner lectures at MUST
German biophysicist and Nobel laureate specializing in the field of cell physiology, Professor Erwin Neher, is delivering a lecture today at the Macau University of Science ... -
A-bomb survivors use prize to share anti-nuke message with the young
The recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is a fast-dwindling group of atomic bomb survivors who are facing down the shrinking time they have left ... -
Nobel Prize in literature awarded to S. Korean author for her ‘intense poetic prose’
South Korean author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature yesterday for what the Nobel committee called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical ... -
Physicists laud late Nobel laureate Lee
In his Nobel acceptance speech in 1957, 31-year-old physicist Tsung-Dao Lee reflected on how his breakthrough discovery of the violation of the principle of parity was ... -
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee dies at age 97
Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco at age ... -
Nobel Literature laureate accused in patriotism lawsuit of insulting China’s heroes
His writing won China’s first Nobel Prize for Literature, but is it patriotic enough? That’s the question at the center of a high-profile lawsuit now driving ... -
Nobel economics goes to professor for advancing understanding of workplace gender gap
The Nobel economics prize was awarded yesterday to Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin for research that has advanced the understanding of the gender gap in the ... -
Jon Fosse, a Norwegian master of spare Nordic writing, wins the Nobel Prize in literature
Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for ... -
Nobel Foundation withdraws invitation to Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend ceremonies
The Nobel Foundation on Saturday withdrew its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the decision ... -
Two scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for ‘gene scissors’
Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday for developing a method of genome editing likened to “molecular scissors” that offer the promise of one ...
