The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 was awarded to three scientists who independently described and explained the mechanisms by which cells repair their damaged DNA. According to the Nobel Committee, the work of the Swede Thomas Lindahl, the American Paul Modric and ...

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for the development of methods for combating parasitic diseases. This was announced by the Nobel Committee of the Royal Karolinska Medical Institute in Stockholm. Half of the prize was divided between Irishman William Campbell and Japanese Satoshi Omura ...

Former director of the Nobel Institute in Norway, Gail Lundestad, who held the post for 25 years, believes that awarding Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 “in advance”, shortly after his election as US president, was a mistake. In his book...

American biologist James Watson, Nobel laureate of 1962, who discovered the double helix of DNA, said he was ready to support young talented scientists from Russia and China. On Wednesday, during Watson's visit to the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), a ceremony will be held to return the Nobel medal, which he bought ...

President Bush proclaimed March 2007 a Historical Women's Month in honor of the achievements of women in education, social life, arts, politics, sports and science. Of course, there are fewer women who made their name famous in science than in other fields. What is the contribution of the Jewish ...