This year the Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory“. Due to past few years with Covid quarantine and restrictions , the Swedish Academy will present the prize to her on December 10th in Stockholm. […]
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Major ‘State of the Planet’ report out in advance of first Nobel Prize Summit
March 22, 2021 – Human actions are threatening the resilience and stability of Earth’s biosphere – the wafer-thin veil around Earth where life thrives. This has profound implications for the development of civilizations, say an international group of researchers in a report published for the first Nobel Prize Summit, a digital gathering to be held […]
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna (VIDEO)
October 7, 2020 – The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded jointly to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.” The announcement was made at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
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Announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm (VIDEO)
October 6, 2020 – The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”, the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the […]
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The 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer
Oct. 8, 2018 – The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to William D. Nordhaus “for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis” and Paul M. Romer “for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis”. The laureates have been awarded equal shares in the prize. William Nordhaus’ […]