Tag: Prize
-
Nobel economics prize goes to global inequality researchers
Three U.S.-based academics won the 2024 Nobel economics prize on Monday for their research into why global inequality persists, especially in countries dogged by corruption and dictatorship. Simon Johnson and James Robinson, both British-American, and Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu were commended for their work on “how institutions are formed and affect prosperity,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences…
-
Nobel Peace Prize winner is Japanese anti-nuclear weapon group Nihon Hidankyo
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Japanese anti-nuclear weapon group Nihon Hidankyo. “This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must…
-
Nobel Prize in literature is awarded to South Korean author Han Kang
The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee, announced the prize in Stockholm. Han, 53, won the International…
-
Baker, Hassabis, Jumper win 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Scientists David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the award-giving body said on Wednesday, for work on the structure of proteins. The prize, widely regarded as among the most prestigious in the scientific world, is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and is worth 11 million…
-
Physics Nobel Prize won by John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton for artificial intelligence research
An American professor at Princeton University and a British-Canadian professor at the University of Toronto won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for research that “formed the building blocks” of a key part of artificial intelligence. John J. Hopfield, 91, was awarded the honor alongside Geoffrey E. Hinton, 76, who left his job at…
-
Americans win Nobel Prize for Medicine for pioneering gene discovery of microRNA
Two American scientists were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for their groundbreaking work on how genes behave. Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered microRNA, which the Nobel Assembly describes as “a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated.” The tiny microRNA molecules play a crucial role in determining…