Literature laureate Jon Fosse’s magnum opus in prose is ‘Septology’ which he completed in 2021. | Photo Credit: X/@NobelPrize The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature is being awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”, the Royal Swedish Academy announced on October 5, 2023. Literature … Read more
Winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on the screen: scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexi Ekimov, for discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. | Photo Credit: AP/Claudio Bresciani The story so far: The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov on … Read more
This story is part of CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free, here. New York CNN Business — The Nobel in economics is sort of the step-cousin of the Nobel family. It came about nearly 70 years after its literature and sciences counterparts, in 1969, and is technically … Read more
CNN — Human rights groups from Russia and Ukraine – Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties – have won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022, along with the jailed Belarusian advocate Ales Bialiatski. The new laureates were honored for “an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power” … Read more
The National Council for Science and Technology Communication approached the Centre in 1986 to designate February 28 as National Science Day. India will celebrate National Science Day on Monday, February 28 — the day scientist CV Raman invented his game-changing Raman Effect in 1928. Raman won the Nobel Prize in physics for the historic discovery … Read more
By Mihir Sharma Economists like to think of themselves as mathematicians — or, if feeling momentarily humbler, as physicists. This year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in economics, however, seem to conceive of themselves more as engineers. Like Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley, who won the prize in 2012, Paul Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson … Read more
Oct. 5, 2020 — Two U.S. researchers and a British scientist have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for major contributions to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis. Hepatitis C, which causes cirrhosis and liver cancer, causes 400,000 deaths worldwide each year, the Washington Post reported. The three recipients … Read more
A national library employee shows a gold Nobel Prize medal. in Bogota, Colombia. (AP Photo/File) Nobel Prize 2020: The Nobel Prize in Medicine for the year 2020 was awarded jointly to Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice on Monday. They have bagged the Nobel medicine prize “for the discovery of Hepatitis C … Read more