STOCKHOLM: U.S. scientists David Baker and John Jumper, along with Britain’s Demis Hassabis, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their groundbreaking work on proteins. Also read: Keanu Reeves excites fans with his first Professional Race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Baker received half the prize for his work in “computational protein design.” The other […]
STOCKHOLM: The 2024 Nobel prizes are announced this week, starting with the award for medicine or physiology on Monday. The awards, which are also given for achievements in physics, chemistry, literature and peace, come with a prize amount of 11 million Swedish crowns ($1.1 million) while the recognition alone can spur book sales and yield […]
This day in history we feature Malala Yousafzai. A human rights activist who advocates for the rights of women and girls and worldwide access to education was born on this day in 1997. Trivia – Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai is the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate, the second Pakistani and the first Pashtun to receive […]
This day in history we feature Nadine Gordimer. She was a South African writer and political activist, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature on this day in 1991. Trivia – Nadine Gordimer Gordimer’s writing dealt with moral and racial issues, particularly apartheid in South Africa. Under that regime, works such as Burger’s Daughter and […]
Born on this day in 1833, Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist, after whom the Nobel Prize was named. Did you know that: • English scientist John Dalton read his paper on the absorption of gases by water to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on this day in 1803• […]
The Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to American poet Louise Glück on Thursday “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” The prize was announced in Stockholm by Mats Malm, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy. New York-born Glück, 77, who is a professor of English at Yale […]
Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and British-born scientist Michael Houghton won the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus, a major source of liver disease that affects millions worldwide. Announcing the prize in Stockholm, the Nobel Committee noted that the trio’s work identified a major […]
