literature and peace – the Nobel Prizes. In 1968, Sweden’s central bank established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Sir Fraser Stoddart is a pioneer in the ...

The Nobel Prize honours outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The first prizes were awarded in 1901. So far, 22 Nobel Prizes have been awarded ...

The Nobel Prize committee became the first to systematically ... Universities can come up with new medals in physics, but they will never be able to give the same one that Albert Einstein won.

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics honours discoveries and inventions in optics that have profoundly shaped our daily life 1. Charles K. Kao won half of the prize for “groundbreaking achievements ...

The Nobel Committee awarded the prize because “The peacekeeping forces of the United Nations have, under extremely difficult conditions, contributed to reducing tensions where an armistice has ...

This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three US pharmacologists for their discovery that the unstable gas, nitric oxide (NO), is an essential regulator of vasodilation.

UCSF has won a total of 13 awards, including the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award and Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. The Shaw Prize, widely regarded as the "Nobel of the ...

Sakharov was awarded the prize "for his struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union, for disarmament and cooperation between all nations", according to the Nobel committee citation. The process ...