Nobel Prize

American economist Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize in Economics 2023 for research on women’s labour market outcomes

Of all the Nobel Prizes, the one for Economics has the fewest number of women who have won, with just two recipients since it was first awarded in 1969 -- Elinor Ostrom in 2009 and Esther Duflo in 2019

Vantage | How Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Moungi Bawendi shows failure is not final

To fail is human, but to rebuild oneself afterward is an act of courage

Nobel prize will give Mohammadi more courage, says husband

Taghi Rahmani, Mohammadi's husband, stated in an interview from his Paris home, "This Nobel Prize will embolden Narges' fight for human rights, but more importantly, this is in fact a prize for the woman, life, and freedom movement

Norwegian author Jon Fosse awarded 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

Jon Fosse has been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature 'for his innovate plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable'

List of Nobel chemistry winners possibly leaked: Sweden media

Three US-based chemists were mentioned in a press statement issued by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, according to Sweden's leading newspaper Dagens Nyheter and public broadcasters Swedish Television and Swedish Radio

Nobel Prize: What is Nobel’s ‘rule of three?’ Why is it a problem?

One of the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, established in accordance with Alfred Nobel’s will, states that 'in no case may a prize amount be divided between more than three persons'. Experts say the ‘rule of three’ makes it difficult for the Nobel committees to honour truly collaborative efforts

Scientists who revealed secrets of the atom win Nobel physics prize

Physics is the second Nobel to be awarded this week after Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and U.S. colleague Drew Weissman won the medicine prize for making mRNA molecule discoveries that paved the way for COVID-19 vaccines

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier win physics Nobel for looking at electrons in fractions of seconds

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier were recognised for their study of the tiny part of each atom that races around the center and that is fundamental to virtually everything: chemistry, physics, our bodies and our gadgets

Nobel Prize in medicine 2023 awarded to Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman for pioneering mRNA vaccine to fight COVID-19

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden said the discoveries by Karikó and Weissman were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during the pandemic that began in early 2020

Nobel Prize season is here: Why is there no prize for mathematics?

The winners of this year's Nobel prizes will be announced daily from 2 October through 9 October. Here are five fascinating things to know about the award