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What is Nobel Prize?
Nobel Prize is a prestigious prize awarded separately in six different fields “to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind”. Originally, the prize was awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. The Peace Prize was characterised as “to the person who has done the most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the establishment and promotion of peace congresses". Later in 1968, a sixth prize was added in the field of economic sciences. The Prize is officially not a Nobel...
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Nobel for protein folding sparks debate on AI's role in scientific prizes
Many machine learning algorithms start with humans "teaching" them the already known, and then letting the algo loose on existing data where it may find new patterns
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Institutions rule: COCD's path to the Nobel in economics this year
Why Colonial Origins of Comparative Development is Nobel-worthy
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Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson win Economics Nobel for 2024
Nobel Prize 2024 in Economic Sciences: Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson's research delves into the formations of different political and economic institutions and how they affect a nation's prosperity
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Bomb survivors use Nobel Peace Prize win to share anti-nuke message
Three high school students accompanied Mimaki at the city hall, stood by him as the prize winner was announced, and promised to keep their activism alive
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Nobel Peace Prize 2024 awarded to Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo
Nihon Hidankyo is a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, known as Hibakusha.
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Nobel Prize in literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang
Kang, 53, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for The Vegetarian, an unsettling novel in which a woman's decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences
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Google's Nobel prize winners stir debate over company's AI research
Former Google researcher Geoffrey Hinton, meanwhile, won the Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday, alongside US scientist John Hopfield, for earlier discoveries in machine learning
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Google DeepMind's chemistry Nobel showcases AI's medical potential
The prize was also the second this week to involve artificial intelligence, highlighting the technology's growing significance in scientific research
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Nobel sparks debate as AI pioneers honoured for neural nets, not physics
Honoured for neural nets, Hopfield and Hinton's Nobel raises questions on awarding contributions outside traditional physics
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Google Deepmind CEO Hassabis among 3 winners of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was awarded in two parts: one to David Baker, and the other jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for their contributions to decoding the protein structure
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 awarded to John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton
Hopfield's research is carried out at Princeton University and Hinton works at the University of Toronto
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Nobel Prize in Medicine is awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun
The prize was awarded for their discovery of microRNA and its role in regulating genes after transcription
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Nobel Prizes will be announced against backdrop of wars, famine, AI
The prize week coincides with the Oct 7 anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, which began a year of bloodshed and war across the West Asia
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Bangladeshis welcome new interim govt, hope for restoration of peace
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, on Thursday took oath as the head of an interim government, replacing Sheikh Hasina who abruptly resigned and fled to India leaving the country in turmoil
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Muhammad Yunus among over 2 dozen Nobel winners to head state: Check list
Amid crisis, Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin announced that Muhammad Yunus was appointed as the leader of Bangladesh's interim government
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Life wouldn't have been wasted if I didn't get the Nobel: Amartya Sen
Sen received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory
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Arundhati Roy awarded UK's Pen Pinter Prize for her 'unflinching' writings
The prize, established in 2009 by the charity English PEN, defends freedom of expression and celebrates literature in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter
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Nobel literature laureate Mo Yan accused of insulting China's heroes
Wu claimed Mo's books have smeared the Chinese Communist Party's reputation, beautified enemy Japanese soldiers and insulted former revolutionary leader Mao Zedong
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Compassion new culture of world, youth will take it forward: Nobel laureate
Compassion is going to be the new culture of world and the youth is going to take it forward, Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Monday.
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India set to boost its economic, geopolitical role: Nobel Laureate Spence
The eminent economist noted that India has successfully developed, by far, the best digital economy and financial architecture in the world
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