Nobel Prize
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Nobel Economics Prize awarded to Claudia Goldin for work on women's contribution to labour market
World | October 09, 2023 15:51 ISTGoldin is an economics professor at Harvard University in the US and is the third woman to win the highly-coveted award. She is also the second woman to win the highly-coveted prize in economics.
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Nobel Prize in Literature: Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins award for his innovative plays and pros
World | October 05, 2023 16:53 ISTNorwegian author Jon Fosse has been awarded The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
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Nobel Prize for Chemistry: Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, Alexei Ekimov awarded for THIS reason
World | October 04, 2023 16:12 ISTNobel Prize for Chemistry: According to the statement released by the award-giving body, the rewards were given as these scientists were involved in the discovery and development of quantum dots which are mainly used in the LED lights.
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Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier awarded Nobel Prize for Physics
World | October 03, 2023 16:30 ISTThe Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award on Tuesday in Stockholm.
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Nobel Prize 2023: Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman win coveted award in Medicine for THIS reason
World | October 02, 2023 16:00 ISTThe Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine was Swedish scientist Svante Paabo, whose discoveries of human evolution provided key insights in functioning of the human immune system.
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Nobel Prize 2022: 3 US-based economists awarded for research on banks and financial crises
World | October 10, 2022 16:57 ISTNobel Prize 2022: Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger had shown that tiny particles can retain a connection with each other even when separated, a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement, that can be used for specialized computing and to encrypt informatio
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Nobel Prize 2022: 3 chemists who made molecules 'click' awarded
World | December 16, 2022 12:47 ISTNobel Prize 2022: Carolyn R Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless were cited for their work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions, which are used to make cancer drugs, map DNA and create materials that are tailored to a specific purpose.
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Nobel season is here: 5 things to know about the prizes
World | October 03, 2022 9:39 ISTNobel Prize 2022: According to Nobel's wishes, that prize should go to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
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India doing 'much better' in fight against child labour under Modi govt, says Nobel Laureate
India | May 03, 2022 14:45 ISTSatyarthi was responding to a question on his vision for India when it celebrates its 100 years of independence in 2047.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South Africa's anti-apartheid icon, dies at 90; PM Modi, others pay tribute
World | December 26, 2021 19:46 ISTTutu, who previously survived tuberculosis, had undergone a surgery for prostate cancer in 1997. He was also hospitalised several times in recent years for a various ailments.
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Nobel Prize for economics awarded to David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens
World | October 11, 2021 16:00 ISTDavid Card of the University of California at Berkeley was awarded one half of the prize, while the other half was shared by Joshua Angrist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Guido Imbens from Stanford University.
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Benjamin List, David WC MacMillan win Nobel in Chemistry for new way to make molecules
World | October 06, 2021 17:11 ISTBenjamin List of Germany and Scotland-born David W.C. MacMillan developed “asymmetric organocatalysis” — work that has already had a significant impact on pharmaceutical research, said Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The tool has also made chemistry “greener,” the judges said.
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Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi win 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
World | October 05, 2021 15:44 ISTThe Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to scientists from Japan, Germany and Italy.
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Nobel Prize in Medicine: US scientists David Julius, Ardem Patapoutian win prestigious award
World | October 04, 2021 15:45 ISTThe two scientists were cited for their discovery of receptors for temperature and touch.
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Nobel Prize ceremonies to be curtailed again due to COVID
World | September 23, 2021 19:30 ISTThe winners of this year's prizes in chemistry, literature, physics, medicine and economics, as well as the Nobel Peace Prize, are set to be announced between October 4 and October 11.
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South Africa to nominate Cuban COVID-19 doctors for Nobel Prize as first vaccines from India arrive
World | February 02, 2021 11:07 ISTSouth Africa plans to nominate the members of the Cuban medical teams, who have been assisting in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in other countries, for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.
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American economists win 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics for work on auction theory
World | October 12, 2020 16:45 ISTAmerican economists Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson on Monday won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats".
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Nobel Prize 2020: American poet Louise Glück wins Nobel literature prize
World | October 08, 2020 17:09 ISTThe Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to American poet Louise Glück on Thursday “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
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Nobel Prize 2020 in Chemistry awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna
News | October 07, 2020 23:38 ISTThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Wednesday awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for “development of a method for genome editing”.
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Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded for ‘genome scissors’
World | October 07, 2020 15:58 ISTFrench scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a method of genome editing likened to “molecular scissors” that offer the promise of one day curing genetic diseases.
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