Nobel Prize
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Nobel Peace Prize for journalists is a reminder that press freedom is under threat worldwide
The threats to free expression are especially insidious as they do not come just from the usual suspects.
Kathy Kiely, The Conversation
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Nobel Peace Prize: How brave journalists like Maria Ressa expand freedoms for everyone
A tribute to the journalist from the Philippines, who will share this year’s prize with Dmitry Muratov of Russia.
Salil Tripathi
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Why Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize for Literature is important
The 73-year-old writer represents both a post-colonial African sensibility and an Islamic interiority.
Bhakti Shringarpure
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The most influential climate science paper of all time that won a Nobel prize in physics
Syukuro Manabe’s work goes down in history as the first robust estimate of how much the world would warm if carbon dioxide concentrations double.
Piers Forster, The Conversation
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Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov
Ressa and Muratov received the award for their work to ‘safeguard freedom of expression’, the award committee said.
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Reading Nobel Prize for Literature winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: First lines from seven novels
Gurnah, 73, was born in Zanzibar and lives in England. He writes in English.
Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah
The chairperson of the Nobel Committee for Literature said he is one of the world’s most well-known post-colonial writers.
Scroll Staff
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My PhD supervisor just won the Nobel prize in physics. Here’s how his research changed science
The prize for Giorgio Parisi, Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann is an amazing recognition of an entire research area of complex systems in physics.
Paolo Barucca, The Conversation
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to two scientists for developing a new tool to build molecules
German scientist Benjamin List and British scientist David WC MacMillan developed the process called ‘asymmetric organocatalysis’ in 2000.
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The Reel
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‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Field of Dreams’ actor Ray Liotta dies at 67
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Economists have a lot more in common with literature, especially novels, than hard science
Economic theory fundamentally relies on our understanding of fiction.
Carolin Benack, The Conversation
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A big problem with the Nobel prize is that it acknowledges a few while ignoring so many others
Awards like the Nobel prize can sometimes single out certain contributions to a discovery by making them seem more important than others.
Rebecca Owens, The Conversation
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Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Paul R Milgrom and Robert B Wilson
The two US economists were awarded for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.
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