Nobel Prize
- India
Modi for Peace Prize? ‘Fake News’, says Nobel committee member
Hyderabad: Following several reports stating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the frontrunner for the Nobel Peace Prize, Deputy leader of the Norwegian Nobel committee Asle Toje on Thursday rubbished all fake…
- World
Afghan women’s rights campaigner shortlisted for Nobel Peace Prize
Kabul: When the Taliban seized power in August 2021, hundreds of women’s rights activists fled Afghanistan, fearing reprisals from the militant group. But Mahbouba Seraj, one of the most prominent rights campaigners…
- World
Sweeden: Stockholm hosts Nobel Prize award ceremony 2022
Stockholm: The Nobel Prize award ceremony was on Saturday held in the Swedish capital Stockholm. This year’s laureates received their awards in the Concert Hall on, Xinhua News Agency reported. This year’s…
- Featured News
League of Extraordinary Achievers—Winning Nobel more than once
Every year, the week October 3-10 is the excitement over the announcement of the winners of the prestigious Nobel Prizes by the Committee based in Sweden. With one more edition done, disappointment…
- News
US-based trio win Nobel Prize for economics
Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to 3 US-based economists ‘for research on banks and financial crises’, on Monday. Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig have been awarded the honour for…
- Science
What is click chemistry that won chemist trio Nobel Prize?
New Delhi: The click chemistry that won Morten Meldal, Barry Sharpless, and Carolyn Bertozzi this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is about making difficult processes easier. Click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions —…
- India
Alt News founders Zubair, Pratik, author Harsh Mander favourites for Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Founders of the fact-checking website Alt News, Mohammed Zubair, and Pratik Sinha and Indian author Harsh Mander are one of the favourites to win this year’s esteemed Nobel Peace Prize award for…
- World
Rushdie could be first Indian-born writer since Tagore to win Nobel prize for literature
London: Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed earlier this year shortly before giving a lecture in the US, is among the favourites to win this year’s Nobel prize for literature, according to bookmakers,…
- Technology
Trio wins Physics Nobel for unravelling quantum science mysteries
Stockholm: France-born Alain Aspect, American John Clauser and Austrian scientist Anton Zeilinger were on Tuesday awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of John Stewart…
- World
Nobel prize for medicine awarded to Svante Paabo for discoveries on evolution
Stockholm: This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for his discoveries on human evolution. Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Committee, announced the…
- World
Virtual Nobel Prize award ceremony for 2nd time due to Covid
Stockholm: In the wake of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Nobel Prize award ceremony was streamed online for a second time in a row from Stockholm’s City Hall. The Laureates received their…
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Pakistan and scientists: Nobel winner disowned, nuclear scientist honoured
M Somasekhar What is common to Nobel Laureate Dr Abdus Salam, Nuclear Physicist, Dr A Q Khan and Physicist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy? Obviously, all are top scientists and citizens of the Islamic…
- World
Three US-based economists receive economics Nobel Prize
Stockholm: Three US-based economists won the 2021 Nobel prize for economics on Monday for pioneering research on the labour market impacts of minimum wage, immigration and education, and for creating the scientific…
- World
Abdulrazak Gurnah conferred Nobel Prize for Literature 2021
London: Tanzania-born UK-based post-colonialist novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose oeuvre mainly deals with the physical and mental disruptions faced by refugees, was on Thursday conferred the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2021. Announcing the…
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Nobel Prize for Physics 2021 goes to three scientists studying complex systems
By Satyen Mohapatra The Nobel Prize for Physics for the year 2021 is being shared among a few people — one half has gone to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Haselmann. The other…
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