The World Food Programme (WFP) is the Nobel Peace Prize winner for 2020. It was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee today. The World Food Programme won the prestigious award “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in … Read more
The Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2020 has been awarded to World Food Programme (WFP). The Nobel Committee made the announcement on Friday and said that WFP’s contribution to battle hunger across the world has won them the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020. World Food Programme (WFP) has won the Nobel Peace Prize. (Reuters) … Read more
The Nobel Prize for literature has been awarded to American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” American poet Louise Glück has won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice.” The prize was announced Thursday in Stockholm by Mats Malm, the permanent secretary … Read more
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today announced that has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. Winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics: Roger Penrose (L), Reinhard Genzel (centre) and Andrea Ghez (R). The Royal Swedish Academy … 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
The Nobel prize in medicine for 2020 has been awarded to Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M Rice for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Announcing the prize in Stockholm on Monday, the Nobel Committee noted that the trio’s work helped explain a major source of blood-borne hepatitis that couldn’t be explained … Read more
Image copyright Getty Images Three scientists who discovered the virus Hepatitis C have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. The winners are British scientist Michael Houghton and US researchers Harvey Alter and Charles Rice. The Nobel Prize committee said their discoveries ultimately “saved millions of lives”. The virus is a common cause … Read more