Tag: Nobel
Nobel Prize: which countries are most awarded?
It is one of the weeks most awaited by the scientific community. From this Monday, October 2, the list of 2023 Nobel Prizes will begin to be revealed, starting with…
The Nobel Prize in Medicine for Hungarian Katalin Kariko and American Drew Weissman
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to the Hungarian Katalin Kariko and the American Drew Weissman for their discoveries in the field of messenger RNA which opened…
Nobel Prize to duo for covid vaccine
Updated 11:53 | Published at 11:47 am fullscreenKatalin Karikó and Drew Weissman are awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman…
Could a Russian win the Nobel Prize this year?
Facts: Nobel laureates of recent years 2022, Annie Ernaux, France. 2021, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzania. 2020, Louise Glück, USA. 2019, Peter Handke, Austria. 2018, Olga Tokarczuk, Poland. 2017, Kazuo Ishiguro, UK.…
Secret behind our sleep could win Nobel Prize
Research into what controls the transition between sleep and the waking state is one of the candidates for this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Archive image. 1 /…
“Room 406, the Pablo Neruda affair”, investigation into the death of the Nobel Prize for Literature
On September 23, 1973, the writer Pablo Neruda died suddenly in a clinic in Santiago, Chile. Twelve days after Pinochet’s coup d’état, this death of the Nobel Prize winner for…
Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize winner, acquitted again of tax evasion
Filipino journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa was acquitted on Tuesday September 12 in Manila of the last charge of tax evasion for which she was being prosecuted.…
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, Nobel Prize winner for literature
Born in 1934, Wole Soyinka was the first writer from the African continent to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Author of theater, poetry, memoirs, essays, and short…
The PR expert “Does the Nobel Foundation even have any PR people?”
The Nobel Foundation makes a U-turn after the storm of criticism – Russia’s ambassador is now being carried from the award ceremony in the Konserthuset in Stockholm.The PR expert is…
Nobel Committee: Russia wants to silence Muratov
full screen Peace Prize laureate and press freedom activist Dmitrij Muratov. Archive image. Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/TT Russia is trying to silence 2021 peace prize winner Dimitrij Muratov by branding him…