Tag: Nobel Prize

• Thursday, October 10th 2013 - 00:42 UTC

  Noble in chemistry for three scientists who developed computer simulation programs

  

  This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry has gone to three scientists who developed computer programs that have become as important to chemists as test tubes. These programs accurately simulate how large, complex molecules behave and this work is central to drug discovery, materials science and much more.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2011 - 22:06 UTC

  Economics Nobel Prize winner predicted ten years ago Euro lack of “clear fiscal backing”

  

  The winner of the Nobel Prize in economics says that a decade ago he feared the Euro would face problems because there wasn't enough fiscal coordination between countries to support it.

• Monday, October 10th 2011 - 22:37 UTC

  Two US macro-economy experts awarded Nobel Prize in economics

  

  US academics Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics for work that helps governments and central banks weigh up responses to crises -though it offers no immediate answer to current global problems.

• Thursday, March 3rd 2011 - 06:06 UTC

  Vargas Llosa is “an enemy of Argentina and all populist governments”

  

  In spite of President Cristina Fernandez instructions to scale down the controversy over the attendance of Literature Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa to Buenos for the opening of the Book Fair, the exchanges continued Wednesday.

• Thursday, December 9th 2010 - 08:45 UTC

  “Mario (Vargas Llosa) the only thing you’re good for is writing”

  

  In his acceptance speech as winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, entitled “In Praise of Reading and Fiction”, (*) Peruvian writer Vargas Llosa paid tribute to his mother, his grandfather Pedro and his uncle Lucho.

• Wednesday, December 8th 2010 - 17:14 UTC

  China creates and awards “Confucius Peace Prize” ahead of Oslo’s ceremony

  

  A newly formed Chinese organization says it will award its own peace prize on Thursday, a day before the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Norway to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 06:55 UTC

  Nobel Economics Prize for experts in labour market and jobs

  

  US born Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen, and British-Cypriot Christopher Pissarides, have won the 2010 Nobel economics prize. They were honoured for work on how unemployment, job vacancies and wages are affected by regulation and policy.