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 ...

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 ...

[AFP] It's easier to lose a Nobel Prize than to win one. Smuggled out to impress girls in a bar, or dissolved to prevent the Nazis from getting their hands on one, the precious gold medals have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andreas Kluth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US diplomacy, national security and geopolitics. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of Handelsblatt Global and a writer for the Economist.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and journalist Maria Ressa has long fought for global press freedom. Her book, "How To Stand Up To A Dictator," detailed her experience running the news site Rappler ...