The Nobel Peace Prize remains inseparably linked to the individual or organisation that wins it, though the physical medal can be gifted, sold, or donated, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday. Read More: Trump accepts Nobel medal from Venezuelan opposition leader The statement came a day after Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado handed her Nobel […]
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James Watson, DNA pioneer, dies at 97
James Watson, the Nobel Prize-winning co-discoverer of DNA’s double-helix structure, has died at the age of 97, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory announced Friday. Watson passed away Thursday in hospice care on Long Island, New York. Watson, along with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, received the 1962 Nobel Prize for their groundbreaking work on DNA, […]
Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the award-giving body said on Thursday, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. “Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard and […]
Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 for work on human immune system
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. Ramsdell, 64, is a scientific adviser for Sonoma Biotherapeutics in San Francisco. Sakaguchi, 74, is a […]
Swedish geneticist wins Nobel medicine prize for decoding ancient DNA
STOCKHOLM/LONDON: Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern-day people evolved from extinct ancestors at the dawn of human history. Paabo’s work demonstrated practical implications during the COVID-19 pandemic when he found that people infected with the virus who carry […]
The 2021 Nobel Prize laureates
From investigative journalists to a Zanzibari novelist, to trailblazers on climate and touch: this year’s Nobel Prizes went to 12 men and one woman, honoured in Oslo and Stockholm on Friday. Here are the 2021 laureates: Medicine David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, both of the United States, won for their discoveries on human receptors for […]
Global leaders, or grassroots campaigners? Nobel Peace Prize wide open
The bookies’ odds point towards the Koreans, or Donald Trump. The experts are betting on the fight against sexual violence or defenders of the press. But all speculation ends Friday when the Nobel Peace Prize is unveiled in Oslo. At 0900 GMT, the annual Nobel prize-giving week reaches its peak as the five-member Norwegian committee […]
Swedish intellectuals form new literature prize in Nobel protest
AFP/File / Jonathan NACKSTRAND There will be no Nobel Literature Prize this year What do you do when this year’s Nobel Literature Prize, the world’s most prestigious accolade of its kind, is postponed because of a sexual assault scandal? You create your own award. More than 100 Swedish intellectuals have joined forces to form a […]