Tag: Nobel prize
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Three jointly win Nobel Medicine Prize for discovery of Hepatitis C virus
Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice together with Briton Michael Houghton won the Nobel Medicine Prize for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.
October 5, 2020 -
Kevin Spacey accuser Ari Behn commits suicide
In December 2017, Behn accused disgraced Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey when the actor hosted a Nobel Prize concert.
December 27, 2019 -
Nobel Prize winners Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee gift Ghana bags, Indian Books to Nobel Museum
Dr Banerjee, Dr Duflo, and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on October 14, "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty."
December 12, 2019 -
Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee conferred with lifetime membership of Mohun Bagan
Abhijit Banerjee, his wife Esther Duflo, both working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Harvard University professor Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on 14 October “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
October 23, 2019 -
Understanding the origin and spread of rumours
They choose an area where a particular policy is applied as against other control areas.
October 17, 2019 -
Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee says India’s economy slowing down very fast
Banerjee's statement on Indian government's failing financial policies comes after Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, former finance minister Manmohan Singh and former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan advised the Modi administration against some of its drastic decisions like demonetisation and GST.
October 15, 2019 -
Former PM Manmohan Singh congratulates Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee
Banerjee, his wife Esther Duflo, both working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Harvard University professor Michael Kremer jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday 'for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.'
October 15, 2019 -
Mumbai-born Abhijit Banerjee wins Economics Nobel, over 5 mn Indian kids benefited from his study
Banerjee won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics jointly with his wife Esther Duflo and another economist Michael Kremer.
October 14, 2019 -
Swedish Academy to award two Nobel literature prizes after sexual harassment scandal
Some of the names attracting the buzz are, poet Anne Carson and novelist Margaret Atwood, as well as Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Polish writer and activist Olga Tokarczuk, French Guadeloupean Maryse Conde, South Korean writer Han Kang.
October 10, 2019 -
Hypoxia researchers from US and Britain win Nobel Prize for Medicine
The mechanism has given researchers new insights into treatments for anaemia, cancer and other diseases, beyond describing a fundamental physiological process that helps animals to thrive in some of the highest regions on Earth.
October 7, 2019 -
Shinzo Abe avoids commenting on Donald Trump’s candidature for Nobel Prize
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday declined to comment on US President Donald Trump’s claims that he has nominated the American leader for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
February 18, 2019 -
The light touch of illumination
One half of last year’s Nobel Prize in physics has celebrated optical tweezers which enables detailed study of biological specimens in a way that was not possible using conventional methods.
January 9, 2019 -
The Heat is On
The coincidence is as remarkable as it is profoundly critical. In parallel with the award of the Nobel prize in Economics to two economists who have worked on the “green growth” model, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has emitted a direly disconcerting signal to the world from Incheon in South Korea. In a …
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October 10, 2018 -
Wikipedia didn’t approve page for Donna Strickland until she got Nobel Physics Prize
On Tuesday, optical physicist Donna Strickland became the third woman to have been awarded a Nobel Physics Prize.
October 3, 2018 -
Nobel Chemistry Prize 2018 awarded jointly to three for pioneering work in Evolutionary Science
The Nobel Chemistry Prize 2018 has been awarded jointly to Frances H Arnold, George P Smith, and Sir Gregory P Winter for revolutionary work in Evolutionary Science.
October 3, 2018 -
Breaking barriers
Controversially omitted from the Nobel Prize awarded to her male colleagues in 1974, astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell has donated the entirety of a recent prize to boost diversity in science.
September 12, 2018 -
What lies between the pages
Nobody should be surprised by the idea that sexual harassment exists in the literary world any more than they should be surprised by the fact that it amasses a huge amount of money and power, and is peopled by those who will do anything they can to remain its gatekeepers.
September 9, 2018