Nobel Prize 2019

Before the Nobel Prize, gifts to and from rich patrons were early science's currency

At the height of the Renaissance, scientists relied on gifts from princes to compensate their efforts.

Nobel Prize for Literature for 2018, 2019 awarded to Poland's Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian writer Peter Handke, respectively

The Nobel Prize for 2018 was awarded to Tokarczuk "for her narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life" a representative for the Academy said. The official noted that 2019 Literature Laureate Handke's "influential work with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and specificity of human experience."

Discovery of how cells sense oxygen levels earns Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Hypoxia-inducible factor is a protein that increases inside the cell when the oxygen levels fall, helping the cell survive.

Nobel Prize in Physics for two breakthroughs: Evidence for the Big Bang and a way to find exoplanets

James Peebles, of all this year’s Nobel prize winners, is the biggest star of the real “Big Bang Theory."

Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded to trio for developing Li-ion battery tech for a rechargeable world

Li-ion batteries have 'laid the foundation of a wireless, fossil-fuel-free society' according to the Nobel Committee.

Nobel Physics Prize awarded to three scientists for work on the cosmos

James Peebles, Michel Mayor, and Didier Queloz were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize for 2019.

Nobel Medicine Prize awarded to three scientists for discovering how cells adapt to low oxygen supply

The three scientists will equally share the Nobel prize award money of nine million Swedish kronor.

Nobel Prize 2019: William Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter Ratcliffe, Gregg Semenza win Nobel Prize in medicine or Physiology for explaining how body adapts to low oxygen levels

Their research focused on how our bodies respond to change in oxygen availability at the molecular level. The body needs oxygen to convert food into energy, it also detects and adapts at a cellular level when there is less oxygen available.

Here are five things that you need to know about the Nobel Prize and its awardees

The Nobel Prize is not given posthumously but there are exceptions like In 2011 when Ralph Steinman of Canada received it.

Nobel Prize for Peace and Literature faces controversy, again, amid #MeToo scandal

Donald Trump has been nominated for the Peace Prize by U.S congressmen for opening a dialogue with North Korea.