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Daily Quiz: On Nobel Prizes Le Duc Tho, who is the Asian who declined the Nobel prize in 1973 START THE QUIZ 1 / 8 | In 2025, for the first time in Nobel history, four faculty of which US institution have won the award in a single year 2 / 8 | Which is…
Rich Lyons (right), chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, hands a lifetime parking pass to John Clarke, an Emeritus Professor of Physics who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 7, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP The Nobel Prizes were announced this week. They have become a fixture of my professional life….
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Mary E. Brunkow (US), Fred Ramsdell (US) and Shimon Sakaguchi (Japan) win Nobel medicine prize. | Photo Credit: Courtesy: https://www.nobelprize.org/ The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on how immune systems work in determining what should be attacked or protected….
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Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 6, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work on…
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Stockholm: The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded on Monday to Turkish-American Daron Acemoglu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research into wealth inequality between nations. By examining the various political and economic systems introduced by European colonisers, the three have been able to demonstrate a relationship between institutions and prosperity, the jury…
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South Korean writer Han Kang, was awarded 2024 the Nobel Prize in Literature, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million). Han Kang was born in Gwangju, South Korea, in…
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London: The award this week of Nobel prizes in chemistry and physics to a small number of artificial intelligence pioneers affiliated with Google has stirred debate over the company’s research dominance and how breakthroughs in computer science ought to be recognised. Google has been at the forefront of AI research, but has been forced on…
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Scientists David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the award-giving body said on Wednesday, for their 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…
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Paris: The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to two US scientists for discovering microRNA, a previously unknown type of genetic switch which is hoped can pave the way for new medical breakthroughs. But while several treatments and tests are under development using microRNAs against cancer, heart disease, viruses and other illnesses, none…
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Daniel Kahneman. File photo | Photo Credit: AP Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his insights into how ingrained neurological biases influence decision making, died on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. at the age of 90. Kahneman and his longtime collaborator Amos Tversky reshaped the field of economics, which prior…
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