Tag: #Nobel
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Nobel Laureates Receive Prizes at Home Amid Pandemic
Nobel Laureates have received prizes at home amid the pandemic.
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American duo wins Nobel Economics Prize for work on auctions
Stockholm, Oct 12 (AFP/APP):US economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for work on commercial auctions, including for goods and services difficult to sell in traditional ways such as radio frequencies, the Nobel Committee said. The duo was honoured “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction…
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World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize
The World Food Programme has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Swedish Academy hands out Nobel Literature Prize after scandal years
Stockholm, Oct 8 (AFP/APP):After several years of scandals and wildcard picks, the Swedish Academy will on Thursday crown the 2020 Nobel Literature Prize laureate, with literary experts hedging their bets due to the unpredictability of the exercise. Ahead of the announcement due at 1:00 pm (1100 GMT), betting sites like Ladbrokes and Betsson have French…
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Two Women Win Nobel Chemistry Prize
Two women have won the Nobel Chemistry prize.
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2020 Nobel season opens with medicine prize
Stockholm, Oct 5 (AFP/APP):Breakthroughs in the field of health will be honoured Monday when the 2020 Nobel season kicks off with the medicine prize, as the world battles the worst pandemic in a century. The medicine prize announcement, due at 11:30 am (0930 GMT), will be followed by the physics prize on Tuesday and chemistry…
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On Nobel committees, women are in short supply
Stockholm, Oct 3 (AFP/APP):Marie Curie, Mother Teresa and Malala are among the just five percent of women Nobel laureates. But women are also heavily underrepresented in the institutions that select the prizewinners each year. The Nobels for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and economics are all awarded in Sweden by separate committees, while the peace prize…