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French author Annie Ernaux wins 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature

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

Nobel Peace Prize 2022: A look at the past 10 awards and their work

There are 343 candidates for Nobel Peace Prize, out of which 251 are individuals and 92 are organisations

Nobel Prize in Literature 2022: A look at past 10 awardees and their work

With this year's Annie Ernaux, Nobel has now 17 women among its 119 literature laureates

Barry Sharpless wins second Nobel: A look at all the two-time awardees

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

Alt News' Pratik Sinha, Mohammed Zubair contenders for Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to people "who have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind"

Nobel Prize 2022 goes to pioneers of Lego-like 'click chemistry'

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

What is 'click chemistry' that won chemist trio 2022 Nobel Prize?

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. Click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions -- which take place without disrupting the normal functioning of the cell -- have taken chemistry into the era of functionalism, bringing the greatest benefit to humankind. Sharpless from Scripps Research, US, and Meldal from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently. Bertozzi, from Stanford University, US, took this click chemistry to a new dimension and started utilising it in living organisms. Chemists have long been driven by the desire to build increasingly complicated molecules. In pharmaceutical research, this has often involved artificially recreating natural molecules with medicinal properties. This has led to many admirable molecular constructio

Nobel chemistry prize awarded to three for attaching molecules

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. Hans Ellegren, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced the winners Wednesday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. A week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off Monday with the award in medicine honoring a scientist who unlocked the secrets of Neanderthal DNA. Three scientists jointly won the prize in physics Tuesday for showing that tiny particles can retain a connection with each other even when separated. They continue with chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics award on Oct 10.

Nobel physics prize goes to sleuths of 'spooky' quantum science

Winners opened the way to powerful new quantum technologies; findings enabled work on quantum computers, encryption

Three physicists share Nobel Prize for work on quantum science

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

Sweden's Paabo wins 2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine for research on evolution

Paabo won the coveted award for his discoveries 'concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution', the award-giving body said on Monday

Nobel Prize season is here: 5 facts to know about the prestigious awards

The beginning of October means Nobel Prize season. Six days, six prizes, new faces from around the globe added to the world's most elite roster of scientists, writers, economists and human rights leaders. This year's Nobel season kicks off Monday with the medicine award, followed by daily announcements: physics on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics award on Oct 10. Here are five other things to know about the coveted prizes: WHO CREATED THE NOBEL PRIZES? The prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a wealthy Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite. The first awards were handed out in 1901, five years after Nobel's death. Each prize is worth 10 million kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be handed out with a diploma and gold medal on Dec. 10 -- the date of Nobel's death in 1896. The economics award - officially

The recluse who confronted the mystery of the universe

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

Nobel Prize 2021: Who are the winners and why have they been chosen?

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

TMS, Ep 19: Delayed IPOs, Adani vs Ambani, markets, and Nobel Prize

Is stage set for an Adani vs Ambani play in green energy? Will delays hurt Paytm, Oyo IPOs? Who are this year's Nobel Prize winners and why have they been chosen? All answers in this episode

An award for certainty

Economics Nobel laureates this year have clear answers

Nobel economics prize goes to natural experiments pioneers

The trio reshaped empirical work in the economic sciences, said the Royal Swedish Academy

Explained: How 2021 science Nobel Prizes impact our world

The 2021 Nobel for Physiology (or Medicine) went to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their "discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch"

Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: An introduction to his writing

He has written numerous works that pose questions around ideas of belonging, colonialism, displacement, memory and migration

Nobel in chemistry honours pair for new way to make molecules

German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David W C MacMillan of Princeton University won the prize