Nobel Prize

Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize-winning Peruvian author, dies at age 89

2:38am April 14, 2025

A giant of Latin American culture, Vargas Llosa used powerful imagery and sometimes fantastical storytelling to explore issues of male violence, societal disruption and authoritarian politics.

'Everyday, ordinary' things drive Nobel Prize-winning author's new novel 'Theft'

6:05pm March 18, 2025

by Andrew Limbong

Following his multi-generational, statement-making novel Afterlives, Abdulrazak Gurnah's new book Theft is a quieter, more intimate look at friendship and power.

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A Japanese organization of atomic bombing survivors wins the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize

3:58am October 11, 2024

by Michel Martin

The Japanese grassroots group Nihon Hidankyo, an organization of World War II atomic bombing survivors, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to create a world free of nuclear weapons.

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Nobel Prize in medicine honors two Americans for discovery of microRNA

6:02am October 07, 2024

The Nobel Assembly said that their discovery is "proving to be fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function."

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee has died at age 97

11:55am August 06, 2024

by The Associated Press

The Chinese American physicist, who in 1957 became the second-youngest scientist to receive a Nobel Prize, died on Sunday at his home in San Francisco.

Moungi Bawendi of MIT, one of the 2023 winners of the chemistry Nobel Prize, embraces his step-daughter Julia Teller (left) at their home in Cambridge, Mass.

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Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to three scientists for tiny, colorful quantum dots

11:02am October 04, 2023

by The Associated Press

Three scientists were honored for their work with the tiny nanoparticles that allow for very bright colors. They are used in many electronics, like LED displays.

A panel of the Royal Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, announces the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday.

3 scientists win Nobel Prize in physics for looking at electrons in atoms

6:22am October 03, 2023

by The Associated Press

The scientists look at electrons in atoms during the tiniest of split seconds, giving "humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons," according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The Nobel laureates and the royal family of Sweden during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm on Dec. 10 2022. The Nobel Foundation has withdrawn its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year's award ceremonies.

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Foundation pulls invite to Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend Nobel Prize ceremonies

9:42pm September 02, 2023

by The Associated Press

Swedish lawmakers had said they would boycott this year's Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm after the foundation initially invited representatives of the three countries to attend.

Memorial chairman Yan Rachinsky condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine in his acceptance speech on behalf of the organization Memorial in Oslo, Norway on Saturday.

In acceptance speech, Russian Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate condemns Ukraine war

4:16pm December 10, 2022

by Giulia Heyward

Yan Rachinsky denounced "the insane and criminal war of aggression against Ukraine" while accepting the award on Saturday.

A bust of Alfred Nobel on display at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022.

The Nobel chemistry prize is awarded to 3 people for their work in attaching molecules

5:59am October 05, 2022

by The Associated Press

This year's Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded in equal parts to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for developing way of "snapping molecules together."