Why Barack Obama was particularly unsuited to live up to the ideals of the Nobel Peace Prize

A critic of Obama's two terms explains how the 44th president’s personality and his politics of ‘least resistance’ prevented him from rising to the moment.

Nick Lehr, The Conversation

· Oct 14, 2019 · 09:30 pm

PEN America criticises Nobel Prize to author Peter Handke, calls him a genocide denier

The organisation said Handke ‘used his public voice to undercut historical truth’ and publicly supported perpetrators of war crimes.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 11, 2019 · 08:18 am

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognises the men who enabled laptops and mobile phones

Michael Stanley Whittingham, John Bannister Goodenough and Akira Yoshino changed the way the world works (and recharges).

Harry Hoster, The Conversation

· Oct 10, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian writer Peter Handke

The prize for 2018, which went to Tokarczuk, was postponed to this year after the academy was rocked by allegations of sexual misconduct.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 10, 2019 · 04:40 pm

Nobel Prize in Physics goes to James Peebles, Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz for work in cosmology

Peebles got the prize for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology and Mayor and Queloz for their discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 08, 2019 · 03:50 pm

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for ‘groundbreaking inventions in laser physics’

Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland won the prize. Strickland is the first woman to win this prize in 55 years.

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· Oct 02, 2018 · 03:31 pm

How Alfred Nobel went from 'merchant of death' to progressive visionary

His fortune amassed from weapons factories, oil companies and several patents were bequeathed in secret to mankind’s betterment.

Ramakrishnan M

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Sujit Lad

· Oct 13, 2017 · 09:00 am

Richard H Thaler gets Nobel for his contribution to behavioural economics

He is a professor of Behavioural Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 09, 2017 · 03:34 pm

Raghuram Rajan features in Clarivate list of possible winners of Nobel Prize in Economics

Clarivate Analytics brings out a list of probable recipients of the award based on research citations.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 07, 2017 · 04:41 pm

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons receives Nobel Peace Prize 2017

Ican has achieved a treaty-based prohibition of nuclear weapons through international agreements, the committee said.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 06, 2017 · 02:55 pm

Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘novels of great emotional force’

The themes he is most associated with are memory, time and self-delusion.

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· Oct 05, 2017 · 05:00 pm

Will Ngugi Wa Thiong'o finally win the Nobel Prize for Literature (or will Murakami make it)?

The Kenyan writer is one of the favourites, although Haruki Murakami and Margaret Atwood are close on his heels, as is Ko Un from Korea.

Harsimran Gill

· Oct 04, 2017 · 08:30 am