Nobel Prize
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 —…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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