Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet wins Nobel Peace PrizeTunisia's National Dialogue Quartet won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its contribution to building democracy after the Jasmine Revolution in 2011, the Nobel Committee said. The quartet is made up of t More… |
Belarussian Alexievich wins Nobel for literatureBelarussian author Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her portrayal of life in the former Soviet Union which the Swedish Academy said was "a monument to suffering and courage in our time." Ale More… |
DNA scientists win Nobel for chemistrySweden's Tomas Lindahl, the US-based Paul Modrich and Turkish-born Aziz Sancar won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on mapping how cells repair damaged DNA, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. "Their work More… |
3 win Nobel for fight against parasitic diseasesThree scientists from Japan, China and Ireland whose discoveries led to the development of potent new drugs against parasitic diseases including malaria and elephantiasis won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday. Irish-born Will More… |
Work on 'taming' firms wins Frenchman economics NobelFrench economist Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics for work that has shed light on how governments can "tame" the big businesses that dominate once-public monopolies like railways, highways and telecommunications. More… |
Economist Gary Becker dies at 83Gary Becker, whose work applying the principles of economics to a wide range of human behaviour won the Nobel Prize in 1992, has died at age 83, the University of Chicago said. Becker, a student of free-market economist Milton Fri More… |
Nobel winner Garcia Marquez dies at 87Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Colombian author whose beguiling stories of love and longing brought Latin America to life for millions of readers and put magical realism on the literary map, died on Thursday. He was 87. A prolific wr More… |
Americans win Nobel for asset price forecastThree American scientists won the 2013 economics Nobel prize on Monday for research that has improved the forecasting of asset prices in the long term and helped the emergence of index funds in stock markets, the award-giving body said. More… |
Nobel Peace prize for chemical arms watchdogThe Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is currently overseeing the destruction's of Syria's arsenal, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. The $1.25 millio More… |
Work on cell 'ferrying' system wins NobelTwo Americans and a German won the 2013 Nobel medicine prize on Monday for their work on how hormones and enzymes are transported within and outside cells, giving insight into diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer's. More… |