Frances Arnold on September 3 became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For the first time in the 117-year history of the Nobel Prize, a US citizen has been awarded the prize in chemistry, an award that has only been won by four women in the world, writes Huffington Post. Who is Frances...

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to American James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo for their revolutionary method of cancer immunotherapy using T cells. They were able to discover that the patient’s immunity can be “tuned” to fight cancer. Usually the immune system independently searches for...

Former Polish President and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa took the initiative to award this award to Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, convicted in Russia for terrorism. According to the rules of the Nobel Committee, prize winners can nominate new candidates. “I nominate Oleg Sentsov for...

The 2017 Nobel Prize ceremony will take place on December 10, but the names of the winners are already known. The publication “Today” has compiled a list of laureates. Nobel Prize in Medicine Three scientists - Michael Young, Geoffrey Hall and Michael Rosbash - received the award for research showing the connection between daily...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the International Campaign for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) the Nobel Peace Prize, stressing that the risk of nuclear conflict has not been as high as it is now. Voice of America reports that the committee has awarded the Geneva-based organization “for its work in ...

Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University, Massachusetts, whose parents left Nazi Germany, was one of three American scientists to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine. The prize was awarded for the discovery of the molecular mechanisms that control the biological clock. Jeffrey Hall of the University of Maine and Michael ...

Scientists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne have received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for their decisive contributions to the study of gravitational waves, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday. “This is something completely new and unique, opening up unprecedented worlds,”…

Scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the molecular mechanisms that control biological clocks, the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm said Monday. Writes about it Reuters. “Their discoveries explain ...

On December 10, in Stockholm, Sweden, the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature was held, which was awarded to one of the most famous rock singers and songwriters, Bob Dylan. The musician himself could not come to the ceremony, but he sent a letter with his Nobel speech, ...

American musician and poet Bob Dylan contacted the Swedish Academy and notified it that he would accept the Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded to him in mid-October. “Do I accept the award? Of course,” Dylan was quoted as saying in a statement on the website of the award’s organizing committee. "News…