The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the founder of the Belarusian human rights organization Vesna, Ales Byalyatsky, the Russian human rights center Memorial, and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties. The BBC writes more about this. Byalyatsky founded the Viasna Human Rights Center in 1996. In 2011, he was convicted of...
Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo received the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology. He deciphered the Neanderthal genome. The BBC published more details. "The prize was awarded for research on the genomes of extinct hominids and human evolution," the Nobel Committee said. Niels-Göran Larsson of the Nobel Committee...
The Swedish Academy has announced the names of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics. The prize will go to American economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson for developing the theory of auctions. Writes about this BBC. Milgrom, 72, and Wilson, 83, were among the top contenders for ...
US President Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize many times. In 2020 alone, he was nominated three times. But the American leader never received the award. The prize was received by the UN World Food Program, writes the BBC. The decision of the Nobel Committee says that the prize was awarded ...
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2020 was divided into two parts. One half went to the Briton Roger Penrose, who proved the possibility of the existence of black holes. The second - to the professors of the University of California Reinhard Gentzel and Andrea Gaz, who discovered one of these holes in the center of our ...
On October 9, the Nobel Committee will announce the name of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. This year 318 nominees will compete for the most prestigious award, including 211 people and 107 organizations. This figure is the fourth in the number of nominees in the history of the award; ...
Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with British virologist Michael Houghton. For which discovery they received the award, the BBC said. The Nobel Committee said in a statement that the award was for the discovery of the virus ...
President Trump received his third nomination for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize in September, this time from a group of Australian law professors, writes Fox News. “Trump has decided that he will no longer drag America into endless wars that do not lead to ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. Writer Sergei Komkov sent an application to the Oslo-based Nobel Committee on September 9, RIA Novosti writes. “This is my fourth nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. It was sent 9 ...
President Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to conclude a peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, writes the New York Post. Christian Tybring-Jedde, member of the Norwegian parliament and chairman of the NATO parliamentary assembly, has nominated Trump. “For his services. ...