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Economics Nobel honours ‘natural experiments’, from minimum wage to migration

Reuters News ServiceOctober 11, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceOctober 11, 20210166

Economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel economics prize on Monday for pioneering “natural experiments” to show real-world economic impacts...

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Tanzania’s Gurnah, novelist of colonialism and refuge, wins 2021 Nobel

Reuters News ServiceOctober 7, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceOctober 7, 20210221

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the...

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Americans Julius and Patapoutian win 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Reuters News ServiceOctober 4, 2021October 4, 2021

By Reuters News ServiceOctober 4, 2021October 4, 20210329

American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch,...

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Black hole discoveries win 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics

Reuters News ServiceOctober 6, 2020October 9, 2020

By Reuters News ServiceOctober 6, 2020October 9, 2020073

Britain’s Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and American Andrea Ghez won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic...

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Virus-hunting trio win Nobel for medicine on hepatitis C discovery

Reuters News ServiceOctober 6, 2020October 7, 2020

By Reuters News ServiceOctober 6, 2020October 7, 20200275

Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for identifying the hepatitis C virus, in work spanning decades that has helped...

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Sex scandal turmoil delays Nobel prize (Update)

Reuters News ServiceMay 4, 2018May 4, 2018

By Reuters News ServiceMay 4, 2018May 4, 20181154

The Swedish Academy which decides the Nobel Prize for Literature said on Friday it would not make the award this year because of a sexual misconduct scandal...

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Making mockery of the Nobel peace prize

Gwynne DyerFebruary 4, 2018February 3, 2018

By Gwynne DyerFebruary 4, 2018February 3, 20182 552

By Gwynne Dyer Nobel Peace Prize winners sometimes go on to undistinguished later careers, and some seem to have got the prize by mistake....

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Gravitational wave pioneers win 2017 Nobel Physics Prize

Reuters News ServiceOctober 3, 2017

By Reuters News ServiceOctober 3, 20173 156

US scientists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for their pioneering role in the detection of gravitational waves, prize...

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‘Biological clock’ scientists win 2017 Nobel Medicine Prize

Reuters News ServiceOctober 2, 2017

By Reuters News ServiceOctober 2, 20170158

US-born scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling...

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Belarusian Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize for Literature (Updated)

Jean ChristouOctober 8, 2015October 8, 2015

By Jean ChristouOctober 8, 2015October 8, 20151116

Belarussian author Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her portrayal of life in the former Soviet Union which the Swedish Academy...

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Nobel prize for solving puzzle of elusive neutrino particles (Updated)

Jean ChristouOctober 6, 2015October 6, 2015

By Jean ChristouOctober 6, 2015October 6, 20150153

By Simon Johnson and Ben Hirschler A Japanese and a Canadian scientist won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for discovering that elusive...

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Japanese, Chinese, Irish scientists win 2015 Nobel medicine prize

Jean ChristouOctober 5, 2015October 5, 2015

By Jean ChristouOctober 5, 2015October 5, 20150112

William Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu jointly won the 2015 Nobel Prize for medicine for their work against parasitic diseases, the award-giving body said...