Black hole discoveries win 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics
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
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...
Sex scandal turmoil delays Nobel prize (Update)
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...
Making mockery of the Nobel peace prize
By Gwynne Dyer Nobel Peace Prize winners sometimes go on to undistinguished later careers, and some seem to have got the prize by mistake....
Gravitational wave pioneers win 2017 Nobel Physics Prize
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...
‘Biological clock’ scientists win 2017 Nobel Medicine Prize
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...
Belarusian Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize for Literature (Updated)
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...
Nobel prize for solving puzzle of elusive neutrino particles (Updated)
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...
Japanese, Chinese, Irish scientists win 2015 Nobel medicine prize
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...