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The Nobel Economics Prize — the only Nobel prize not originally included in Alfred Nobel’s 1895 will — was established in 1968 to celebrate the Swedish central bank’s 300th anniversary. Since it was first awarded in 1969, Americans have dominated the prize, and only two women have won. Here is a list of the winners: 2022: Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig (US) 2021: David Card (Canada), Joshua Angrist (Israel-US) and Guido Imbens (US-Netherlands) […]
Here is a list of the winners of the Nobel Medicine Prize in the past 10 years: 2022: Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo for his discoveries on the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. 2021: US duo David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discoveries on human receptors responsible for our ability to sense temperature and touch. 2020: Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice, together with Briton Michael Houghton, for the discovery of the Hepatitis C […]
By Pia OHLIN STOCKHOLM, Oct 2, 2023 (AFP) – Narcolepsy, cancer or mRNA vaccine research could win the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday when a week of announcements kick off, but experts see no clear frontrunner for the Peace Prize. The awards, first handed out in 1901, were created by Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel in his 1895 will to celebrate those who have “conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.” The Medicine Prize is […]
by Thomas URBAIN NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has been awarded the Pritzker Prize, considered architecture’s highest honor, for a lifetime of work that found global resonance while mining local traditions. The 87-year-old’s more than 100 built works range from the Palau Saint Jordi, built in Barcelona for the 1992 Summer Olympics, to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, his first international commission. His hometown of Otai, Japan […]
by Pia OHLIN Agence France-Presse STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Three scientists on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize, including the first woman to receive the prestigious award in 55 years, for inventing optical lasers that have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in corrective eye surgery. Arthur Ashkin of the United States won one half of the nine-million Swedish kronor (about $1.01 million or 870,000 euros) prize, while Gerard Mourou of France and […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — The jailing of two Reuters journalists shreds what remains of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s reputation as a rights champion, critics say, after she failed to come to their defence or speak up for the persecuted Rohingya minority. Suu Kyi was once a staunch advocate for the free press and a darling of the foreign media. During her long years of house arrest under the former junta — which choked […]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on Thursday, officials said, in her first visit to her native country since she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman for advocating education for girls in 2012. Precise details of her itinerary have been “kept secret in view of the sensitivity surrounding the visit,” a government official said of the trip, which is expected to last four days and include […]
by Ilgin Karlidag Agence France Presse OSLO, Norway (AFP) — Mankind’s destruction caused by a nuclear war is just one “impulsive tantrum away,” the winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), warned on Sunday as the United States and North Korea exchange threats over the nation’s nuclear tests. “Will it be the end of nuclear weapons, or will it be the end of us?” ICAN head Beatrice Fihn […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — US astrophysicists Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for the discovery of gravitational waves, the Nobel jury said. Predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago as part of his theory of general relativity, but only detected in 2015, gravitational waves are “ripples” in the fabric of space-time caused by violent processes such as colliding black holes or the collapse of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Chen Guangcheng, one of China’s best-known activists who fled to the United States, charged Thursday that Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo was “deliberately killed” by the country’s rulers, urging the international community to maintain pressure on Beijing. Liu, a veteran of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 who was jailed in 2009 for “inciting subversion of state power” with his Charter 08 manifesto calling for democratic reforms, died Thursday at […]
WASHINGTON, United States (Reuters) — Details of Bob Dylan’s receipt of his Nobel literature prize were being kept under close wraps on Saturday (April 1) leaving those wanting to know more about it blowin’ in the wind. It’s not that the times kept a-changin’, it was that no one would say what was happening. The Swedish Academy, which hands out the Nobels, said on Wednesday (March 29) Dylan will receive his diploma and medal while […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — Music icon Bob Dylan is set to receive his Nobel prize this weekend at a meeting with the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. “The good news is that the Swedish Academy and (Dylan) have decided to meet this weekend. The Academy will then hand over Dylan’s Nobel diploma and the Nobel medal, and congratulate him on the Nobel Prize in Literature,” Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Academy, wrote in a blog […]
