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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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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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Nobel physics prize goes to 3 for climate discoveries
Stockholm: The Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to scientists from Japan, Germany and Italy. Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann were cited for their work in the physical modelling of Earth’s climate,…
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Two US scientists jointly awarded Nobel Medicine Prize
For their discoveries on receptors for temperature and touch, United States scientists David Julius and Adam Patapoutian have won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday. The Nobel jury remarked, “The groundbreaking discoveries……
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Nobel Prize ceremonies to be curtailed again due to pandemic
Stockholm: The Nobel Prize ceremonies will be reined in and scaled-down for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic, the foundation behind the coveted prizes said Thursday. The…
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Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai signs multi-year Apple TV+ deal
Cupertino: Nobel Peace Prize laureate and women’s rights activist Malala Yousafzai is continuing her relationship with Apple by agreeing to a multi-year programming deal for Apple TV . The deal, announced by…
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Nobel Prize in Economics goes to Paul R. Milgrom, Robert B. Wilson
Stockholm: The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday was awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.” Paul R. Milgrom The prize, called the Sveriges Riksbank…
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Charpentier, Doudna win 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Washington: Emmanuelle Charpentier from Germany and Jennifer A. Doudna from USA have been awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Wednesday for “development…
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3 win Nobel medicine award for hepatitis C virus discovery
Stockholm: Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C…
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With ‘desi’ swag, Abhijit Banerjee receive Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM: Indian American economist Abhijit Banerjee and his French-American wife Esther Duflo along with their colleague Michael Kremer received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on Tuesday for their work to…
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Nobel winner Mahfouz lives on in Cairo’s alleyways
CAIRO: The legacy of Islamic Cairo’s most famous son Naguib Mahfouz lives on in its winding lanes more than three decades after he became the only Arab to win the Nobel Prize…
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‘Humans will not migrate to other planets,’: Nobel Prize winner
Humans will never migrate to a planet outside of Earth’s solar system because it would take far too long to get there, Swiss Nobel laureate Michel Mayor said Wednesday. Mayor and his…
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