Nobel Prize

Pioneers in fight against poverty win 2019 Nobel economics prize

Economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for… Read More

Free transport for readers of Nobel laureate

Public transport will be free through the weekend for anyone carrying a book by Poland's… Read More

Doctors who deciphered body’s response to oxygen win Nobel Medicine Prize

The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin… Read More

Trump complains he deserves Nobel Prize

Trump aired one of his oldest grievances at the United Nations on Monday Read More

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88

Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and one… Read More

Kubra Khan reacts to Imran Khan’s Nobel Prize tweet

Now 'Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2' actress Kubra Khan too expressed her admiration for the… Read More

Russian Nobel Prize winner for physics Alferov dies aged 88

Alferov noted that physics had brought both benefits and disasters to mankind in the 20th… Read More

Americans Nordhaus, Romer win Nobel Economics Prize

STOCKHOLM: Americans William Nordhaus and Paul Romer won the 2018 Nobel Economics Prize for work… Read More

Trio wins chemistry Nobel for work on antibody drugs and detergents

Two Americans and a Briton won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for harnessing the… Read More

1,001 ways to lose a Nobel Prize

OSLO: It's easier to lose a Nobel Prize than to win one. Smuggled out to… Read More

Swedish king to change statutes of Nobel-awarding Academy

Sweden’s king will change the arcane rules of the Swedish Academy, which picks the winner… Read More

Japanese Nobel winner hospitalized in US, wife found dead

CHICAGO: A Japanese Nobel Prize-winner was hospitalized Wednesday and his wife was dead, reportedly after… Read More

Afghan institute, Metallica win music’s ‘Nobel Prize’

STOCKHOLM: An Afghan music institute that has empowered girls in the war-torn country and metal… Read More

Nobel prize winner’s book turned down by 19 publishers

PARIS: The French writer Claude Simon, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1985,… Read More

Einstein theory of happy living emerges in Tokyo note

JERUSALEM: A note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo, briefly describing his… Read More

US says no plan to sign global anti-nuclear treaty

WASHINGTON: The United States said Friday it has no intention of signing a nuclear weapons… Read More

Demand surges for Nobel winner’s works in native Japan

TOKYO: The Japanese publisher of Nagasaki-born Kazuo Ishiguro said on Friday it would republish eight… Read More

Nobel Foundation increases cash award for prizes

OSLO: One week before the announcement of the 2017 Nobel prizes begins, the Nobel Foundation… Read More

Hundreds and thousands demand authorities to take back Suu Kyi’s Nobel Prize

As the woes of Rohingya Muslims deepen in Myanmar, social media users from across the… Read More

China rejects US criticism over Nobel laureate’s treatment

BEIJING: China on Tuesday rejected criticism over its treatment of cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo… Read More