Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing mRNA vaccines for Covid-19, reports the BBC. The 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology was awarded to Katalin Karikó (Hungary) and Drew Weissman (USA) for their discoveries that led to the development of a new...
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 Pääbo received the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology. He deciphered the Neanderthal genome. The BBC reported in more detail. “The prize was awarded for research into the genomes of extinct hominids and human evolution,” the Nobel Committee said. Nils-Göran Larsson from 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 British Roger Penrose, who proved the possibility of the existence of black holes. The second is to University of California professors Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Gaz, who discovered one of these holes in the center of our...
On October 9, the Nobel Committee will name the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. This year, 318 nominees will compete for the most prestigious award, including 211 individuals and 107 organizations. This figure is the fourth largest 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 has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. The application to the Nobel Committee located in Oslo was sent by writer Sergei Komkov on September 9, writes RIA Novosti. “This is my fourth nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. It was sent on 9...