Page 5 - Latest Updates on Nobel Prize
Nobel physics prize goes to 3 for work on complex physical systems
'Complex systems are characterised by randomness and disorder and are difficult to understand,' the Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement
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Nobel Prize in medicine for discovery of temperature, touch receptors
The Nobel Prize in the field of physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian.
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Activists, WHO in the frame as Nobel Peace guessing starts
The annual Nobel Peace Prize shines the brightest of lights on the person or group thought to have done most to promote peace. But guessing who it will be is just a stab in the dark.
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Nobel Prize ceremonies to be curtailed again due to Covid pandemic
The Nobel Prize ceremonies will be reined in and scaled-down for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic, the foundation behind the coveted prizes said Thursday.
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Amartya Sen's memoir, Home in the World, presents the peripatetic thinker
The Nobel Prize-winning economist has combined pure memoir with chapters on fundamental philosophical, political or economic issues
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Chinese media faces backlash for backing call to seek Nobel for Wuhan lab
Chinese state media faced backlash for amplifying Foreign Ministry's call for seeking a Nobel Prize for Wuhan Institute of Virology even as it faces scrutiny as the potential origin of the pandemic
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Legendary singer Bob Dylan and us: A vicarious experience, and yet…
The unconventional music of the Nobel laureate, who turned 80 last week, might have nothing connecting Indians to it but there is a reason he has a following here
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Edward Said: An 'intellectual' biography
Book review of Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
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SA to nominate Covid doctors for Nobel as first vaccines from India arrive
President Cyril Ramaphosa announced this and easing of the lockdown restrictions on Monday evening as the country''s first batch of 10 lakh vaccines arrived from India
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Meet Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, the mild-mannered sharp shooter
Banerjee tells Anjuli Bhargava he wants the world to have the right conversations before marching on in its battle against extreme poverty
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Moving beyond L1/H1
The bigger takeaway from this year's Nobel winners is that an overhaul of public procurement processes in India is long overdue
Nobel ceremonies go low-key this year because of the Covid-19 pandemic
Traditionally, the lavish Nobel ceremonies are held Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of prize founder Alfred Nobel, at an ornate city hall in Stockholm.
Under pandemic cloud, Nobel Prize ceremony to be held online this year
The Nobel prize week this year will primarily be digital with laureates getting their medals and diplomas in their respective countries in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
Telecom spectrum auction: How this year's Nobel-winning idea failed India
The bridge that Milgrom and Wilson built was the 1994 auction of telecommunications spectrum by the Federal Communications Commission
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Economics Nobel shows that economists are starting to think like engineers
Most economic theories are basically mathematical parables. Although they're written in equations, the variables in those equations only loosely correspond to real-world things that we can measure
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Award for auctions
This year's Nobel is for actual economic policy design
Americans Paul Milgrom, Robert Wilson win 2020 Nobel prize in economics
The winners were announced in Stockholm by Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Nobel change
There are question-marks about the way the prizes work
Nobel win will further strengthen cooperation with India, says WFP
The UN's World Food Programme which won the Nobel Peace prize on Friday said it hopes that this recognition will further strengthen its cooperation with India
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First time in my life I've been without words: WFP head on Nobel prize win
The head of the UN World Food Programme, David Beasley, has told The Associated Press that he was left speechless by the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to his organisation
