With this year's Annie Ernaux, Nobel has now 17 women among its 119 literature laureates
Ernaux was chosen 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory', the award-giving body
Barry Sharpless was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on "click chemistry", becoming only the fifth person to win the prize for the second time
Danish winner Medal described click chemistry as a way to build complex structures and link them as if they were pieces of Lego, the plastic construction toy
The click chemistry that won Morten Meldal, Barry Sharpless, and Carolyn Bertozzi this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is about making difficult processes easier
Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless were cited for their work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to people "who have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind"
Winners opened the way to powerful new quantum technologies; findings enabled work on quantum computers, encryption
Clauser, Aspect, and Zeilinger have figured in Nobel speculation for more than a decade. In 2010 they won the Wolf Prize in Israel, seen as a possible precursor to the Nobel
Paabo won the coveted award for his discoveries 'concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution', the award-giving body said on Monday
The beginning of October means Nobel Prize season with six days, six prizes, new faces added to the world's most elite roster of scientists, writers, economists and human rights leaders
This is a very human telling of the ways that we've figured out at least some of the mysteries of our universe since the mid-20th century
As the world reels from the Covid-19 pandemic, the importance of science, world peace and literature seem more important. Let's look at a brief history of the Nobel Prize, and the winners this year
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Economics Nobel laureates this year have clear answers
The trio reshaped empirical work in the economic sciences, said the Royal Swedish Academy
The 2021 Nobel for Physiology (or Medicine) went to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their "discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch"
He has written numerous works that pose questions around ideas of belonging, colonialism, displacement, memory and migration
German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David W C MacMillan of Princeton University won the prize
Japanese-born American Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann, and Italian Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics