Tag: Nobel Prize

• Monday, December 30th 2024 - 10:40 UTC

  Former US President Jimmy Carter dies aged 100

  

  Former US President James Earl “Jimmy” Carter Jr. (1977-1981) died Sunday in the State of Georgia, The Carter Center confirmed on social media. He was 100. He had been in hospice care in Plains, Georgia, since February 2023. Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter died on Nov. 19, 2023, at age 96.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Awkwardness surrounds Milei's presence in Prague

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei Monday said from Prague that he would “probably” be awarded the Nobel Prize for “rewriting economic theory” with his administration's alleged achievements rescuing the South American country from hyperinflation and getting it back on track. Besides his political engagements with the Czech authorities, Milei's presence in town sparked another controversy regarding a new accolade he was presented after the organization allegedly behind the distinction said it had nothing to do with it.

• Thursday, February 22nd 2024 - 10:29 UTC

  Chilean authorities reopen probe into Neruda's death

  

  Chilean authorities decided this week to launch an investigation into the Sept. 23, 1973, death of Communist poet Pablo Neruda, winner of the 1971 Literature Nobel Prize, who is believed to have been poisoned by the military regime of dictator Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) less than a fortnight after seizing power in a bloody coup d'état. At that time, Neruda, 69, was said to be suffering from prostate cancer, but it is believed he was not terminally ill by then.

• Monday, October 10th 2022 - 18:55 UTC

  Nobel Economics Prize split among 3 US scholars

  

  The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip H. Dybvig of the United States “for their research on banks and financial crises,” it was announced in Stockholm Monday.

• Thursday, October 6th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  “Click chemistry” developers awarded Nobel Prize

  

  Caroline R. Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless of the United States have been awarded the 2022 Chemistry Nobel Prize together with Denmark's Morten Meldal for making difficult things easy, it was announced.

• Monday, October 3rd 2022 - 18:20 UTC

  Sweden-born scientist gets Medicine Nobel Prize 40 years after his father did

  

  A Sweden-born scientist who resides in Leipzig, Germany, has been awarded Monday the 2022 Medicine Nobel Prize for his findings on prehistoric DNA.

• Monday, October 11th 2021 - 19:16 UTC

  Nobel Economic 2021 Prize goes to US-based trio

  

  David Card, Joshua D Angrist, and Guido W. Imbens have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics Monday for their research “drawing conclusions from unexpected experiments” applied to labor market analysis.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 09:21 UTC

  Journalists advocate of freedom of the press awarded 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

  

  This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Russia's Dmitry Muratov.

• Friday, October 8th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  Tanzanian-born writer wins Literature Nobel Prize

  

  The 72-year-old Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded this year by Swedish Academy.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2021 - 14:15 UTC

  “Ingenious tool for molecule building” earns scientists the 2021 Chemistry Nobel Prize

  

  The 2021 Chemistry Nobel Prize has been awarded to German Benjamin List and Scottish-born David MacMillan for their achievements in the development of tools for building molecules that have helped make new drugs, it was announced Wednesday in Stockholm.