This year it is highly probably that two authors will receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Prize for 1949 was held over because the members of the Swedish Academy could not agree on any ...

He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 while he was Langworthy Professor of Physics at Manchester. In the laboratory built at the University by Arthur Schuster, Rutherford created a world ...

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 ...

His will created what are widely ... It is not known why Nobel chose Norway, which at the time was in a union with Sweden, to ...

Robinson for research into reasons why some countries succeed ... The economics prize is the only Nobel not among the ...

Chinese medical scientist Tu Youyou’s winning of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ... The WSJ's Menglin Huang explains why.

The award from the New Academy was created after a scandal at the ... of allegations against a member's husband. Nobel Literature Prize: Why this year's award was postponed Chronicle of wound ...

Munro is only the thirteenth woman to win the prize since its inception in 1901. The Nobel Foundation said they had been unable to reach her and had left a message on her phone. Photo: Reuters ...

Ressa and Dmitry Muratov of Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize for their fight for freedom of expression in countries where reporters have faced persistent attacks and even murder. An Indian and ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the father of Anglophone Kenyan literature, did not win the 2014 ...

"We created a civilisation based on one basic principle; profit maximisation," he says. "With profit maximisation, we become money-making robots. We are no longer human beings and that is why we ...

Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. The start of October is when the Nobel committees get together in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the yearly ...