• 2012 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize winner Joan Argetsinger Steitz, known for her pivotal discoveries about cell biology and for her efforts to encourage women in science and engineering, has won the 2018 Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science. (rockefeller.edu)
  • 2018 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize recipient Jennifer Doudna says the field is probably five to ten years away from having an approved therapy for patients. (rockefeller.edu)
  • Agnes Gund, a collector and philanthropist who will present the 2018 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, partnered with the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors last year to launch the $100 million Art for Justice Fund with the goal of reducing U.S. prison populations. (rockefeller.edu)
  • Professor Brigitte Voit, Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany , has been awarded the Hermann Staudinger Prize 2018 by the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh, German Chemical Society). (chemistryviews.org)
  • The prize was presented at the biennial meeting of the GDCh's Division of Macromolecular Chemistry in Karlsruhe, Germany, on September 24, 2018. (chemistryviews.org)
  • Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who went missing in 2017, remained missing throughout 2018. (state.gov)
  • and Jill Stein, 2016 presidential candidate, Green Party U.S.A - traveled to South Korea from July 23 to July 28, 2017. (no-to-nato.org)
  • It was not surprising that after the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 some of the most frequently asked questions were "What can we use your research for? (lindau-nobel.org)
  • NEW HAVEN - The winner of this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago, is a controversial choice. (economist.com.na)
  • In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his analysis of consumption , poverty, and welfare . (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2015, Deaton won that year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences . (wikipedia.org)
  • Belarussian pro-democracy campaigner Ales Bialiatski, who shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize with human rights groups in Russia and Ukraine was the fourth person to receive the award while in captivity. (kron4.com)
  • The research efforts that won this year's Nobel Prize, but also the discovery of gene editing and experiments conducted at CERN, are excellent examples of this kind of research. (lindau-nobel.org)
  • Filipe Pereira, professor of molecular medicine at Lund University, is awarded this year's Fernström prize for young, exceptionally promising, and successful researchers. (lu.se)
  • The first woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize was Bertha von Suttner in 1905. (wikipedia.org)
  • Five Nobel Peace Prize Laureates were under arrest at the time of their awards: Carl von Ossietzky, Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo, Ales Bialiatski, and Narges Mohammadi. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Nobel Peace Prize helped raise international support for Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was under house arrest when she won the award in 1991. (kron4.com)
  • When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her long-persecuted National League for Democracy party won elected office in November 2015, bringing an end to nearly five decades of authoritarian military rule, many local journalists saw the democratic result as a de facto win for press freedom. (cpj.org)
  • Liu Xiaobo was serving an 11-year sentence for inciting subversion by advocating sweeping political reforms and greater human rights in China when the Norwegian Nobel Committee selected him for the peace prize in 2010. (kron4.com)
  • The Chinese authorities' distaste for free speech and human rights activism was perhaps best displayed following the death in July 2017 of China's only Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo . (civicus.org)
  • Ailing Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo remains in the First Hospital of China Medical University in Shenyang, though his exact condition has been the subject of conflicting reports from the hospital and foreign doctors invited to treat him. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • It is one of the five prizes established by the 1895 will of Alfred Nobel (who died in 1896), awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sheldon Glashow (standing on the left, and possessor of a 1979 Nobel Prize for physics) and Rich Roberts (standing on the right, and possessor of a 1993 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine) sent us this photo of them in Bali. (improbable.com)
  • Smithies, the UNC School of Medicine's Weatherspoon Eminent Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, shared the 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with two colleagues for their work in genetics. (wral.com)
  • he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. (wikipedia.org)
  • CU Boulder's Tom Cech won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1989, but he firmly believes his place is still in the classroom teaching undergraduates. (colorado.edu)
  • Cech, the director of the BioFrontiers Institute , shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (colorado.edu)
  • Nature Research congratulates the awardees of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson. (nature.com)
  • The Nobel Laureate parking spots on campus are going to get a little more crowded with physicist Eric Betzig-who won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry-joining the UC Berkeley faculty. (californiagoldenblogs.com)
  • The Nobel Peace Prize was first awarded in 1901 to Frédéric Passy and Henry Dunant, who shared a prize of 150,782 Swedish kronor (equal to 7,731,004 kronor in 2008), and most recently in 2023 to Narges Mohammadi. (wikipedia.org)
  • As of 2023[update], the Peace Prize has been awarded to 111 individuals and 27 organizations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. (nobelprize.org)
  • Eleven laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize in 2023, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. (nobelprize.org)
  • The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 urged Iran to release imprisoned peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi and let her accept the award at the annual prize ceremony in December. (kron4.com)
  • University of Chicago Professor Richard Thaler arrives at his office after learning he had been awarded the Nobel prize in economics. (marketplace.org)
  • Not everyone initially supported Richard Thaler for his work in behavioral economics, but he's now the 2017 Nobel Prize winner for his research in the field. (marketplace.org)
  • We hope that as a Nobel Peace Prize winner, President Barack Obama will pay attention to his seven fellow Peace Prize winners and, before leaving the White House, correct the injustice committed against Chagossians. (letusreturnusa.org)
  • The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has announced today the 2017 Gilliam Fellowship awardees -exceptional doctoral students who have the potential to be leaders in their fields as well as the desire to advance diversity and inclusion in the sciences. (colorado.edu)
  • Marc-Antoine Fardin took home the Physics Prize for his study probing the question, "Can a cat be both a solid and liquid? (livescience.com)
  • She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905. (ipb.org)
  • Other laureates such as Tawakkul Karman of Yemen, Costa Rica's former president Oscar Arias and US anti-landmine activist Jody Williams also spoke up to criticise Mr. Trump at the gathering. (cubasi.cu)
  • We extended this Nobel Prize winners party by chatting with Shiller about the "revolutionary" Thaler, why psychology and the social sciences are so crucial for economic research, and whether he has any financial advice for the new winner. (marketplace.org)
  • To make sure that the winners of the Ig Nobel prizes didn't overstay their welcome onstage, "Miss Sweetie Poo" (Dorothea Hartig) allowed each winner 60 seconds of talking, before walking out and repeating "Please stop, I'm bored! (livescience.com)
  • Nobel Peace Prize winners have condemned US President Donald Trump at a gathering at which their host accused him of "a discourse of hate" against immigrants. (cubasi.cu)
  • Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, the prize's latest winner for progress towards ending his country's civil war, yesterday opened the four-day summit of peace prize winners in Bogota. (cubasi.cu)
  • Thaler once told me that Merton Miller, who won the economics Nobel in 1990 (he died in 2000), would not even make eye contact when passing him in the hallway at the University of Chicago. (economist.com.na)
  • Among other honors, Voit has received the Georg Manecke Award from the GDCh in 2000, the Covestro Distinguished Lectureship Award in 2017, and the Saxon Order of Merit in 2017. (chemistryviews.org)
  • The Nobel Prize will be handed out on Dec. 10 on the anniversary of the death of Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who created the award in 1895. (worldbulletin.net)
  • The Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo, in the presence of the King of Norway, on 10 December, the anniversary of Nobel's death, and is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm has awarded one half of the prize to Rainer Weiss, 85, and the other jointly to Barry C. Barish, 81, and Kip S. Thorne,77, "for decisive contributions to the LIGO [Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory] detector and the observation of gravitational waves", said the press release. (worldbulletin.net)
  • That moment of pride when you're on a tour of the Nobel Museum in Stockholm and your Swedish tour guide asks, 'Is anyone from Berkeley, California? (californiagoldenblogs.com)
  • At 17 years of age, Malala Yousafzai, the 2014 recipient, is the youngest to be awarded the Peace Prize. (wikipedia.org)
  • Malala, an advocate for girls' education, became the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate for her activism. (timetoast.com)
  • Rydberg Lecture with the support by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences through its Nobel Institute for Physics. (lu.se)
  • Narges Mohammadi is the 5th Nobel peace laureate to win while imprisoned. (kron4.com)
  • As dictated by Nobel's will, the award is administered by the Norwegian Nobel Committee and awarded by a committee of five people elected by the Parliament of Norway. (wikipedia.org)
  • Suu Kyi was detained again when the military ousted her elected government in 2021, and she remains imprisoned despite calls for her release by the Norwegian Nobel Committee and others. (kron4.com)
  • University of Colorado Boulder Distinguished Professor Tom Cech, Colorado's first Nobel Prize winner, has been named the 2017 Hazel Barnes Prize winner - the most distinguished award a faculty member can receive from the university. (colorado.edu)
  • 2011 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize winner Brenda Milner is celebrated for her insight into recollections as a feature of neurobiology. (rockefeller.edu)
  • and American author and Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker. (no-to-nato.org)
  • This is the one hundred and thirteenth episode of Public Interest Podcast with Dr. James Cobey , an orthopedic surgeon and the co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on banning land mines , speaks about the terrible human cost of landmines on civilian populations who reap the ravages of war decades after the end of a conflict. (publicinterestpodcast.com)
  • On Sept. 14, 2017, the 27th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony celebrated unconventional research, delivered 24-second scientific lectures and presented a mini-opera about incompetence. (livescience.com)
  • Well, if you miss useless predictions and can't get your Miss Cleo fix, then here's a prediction that might interest you.Thomson Reuters predicts the Nobel parking spots at UC Berkeley are going to get a little more crowded with Professor Jennifer Doudna winning one for her gene-editing technology, CRISPR-Cas9. (californiagoldenblogs.com)
  • I do think Doudna/CRISPR will win the Nobel one day, but I think the Nobel Committee usually waits a little longer to recognize research with the acclaimed prize. (californiagoldenblogs.com)
  • One economist who has been fully supporting him: Yale's Robert Shiller who won the Nobel Prize in economics himself back in 2013. (marketplace.org)
  • So you're talking to someone last night before the Nobel Prize in economics was announced and they asked for your prediction. (marketplace.org)
  • Now just before we go you've won the Nobel prize in economics yourself. (marketplace.org)
  • By Robert J. Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale University and a 2013 Nobel laureate in economics. (economist.com.na)
  • The economics Nobel has already been awarded to a number of people who can be classified as behavioural economists, including George Akerlof, Robert Fogel, Daniel Kahneman, Elinor Ostrom, and me. (economist.com.na)
  • With the addition of Thaler, we now account for approximately 6% of all Nobel economics prizes ever awarded. (economist.com.na)
  • Matthew Rockloff and Nancy Greer, researchers at Central Queensland University in Australia, won the Ig Nobel Economics Prize for their study exploring how interactions with a crocodile could affect a person's affinity for gambling. (livescience.com)
  • [9] Since 2017, he holds a joint appointment with the University of Southern California where he is the Presidential Professor of Economics. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Ig Nobel Peace Prize went to a team of researchers who discovered that playing the didgeridoo - a wind instrument developed by indigenous people in northern Australia - could successfully treat obstructive sleep apnea and snoring. (livescience.com)
  • Only two recipients have won multiple Peace Prizes: the International Committee of the Red Cross has won three times (1917, 1944 and 1963) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has won twice (1954 and 1981). (wikipedia.org)
  • Two recipients have gone on to win Nobel Prizes themselves. (rockefeller.edu)
  • While Joan Steitz hasn't won the Nobel, both she and King have won the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize-a prize established by Nobel laureate Paul Greengard, who used his Nobel money to set up a prize that "recognizes the accomplishment of outstanding women scientists. (rockefeller.edu)
  • This article profiles the research and career of Lucy Shapiro, who received the 2014 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize for her contributions to the field of developmental biology. (rockefeller.edu)
  • To recognize outstanding female leaders in biology, Rockefeller neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Paul Greengard and his wife, sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard, established the annual Pearl Meister Greengard Prize. (rockefeller.edu)
  • recommended that Aristotle be awarded the Nobel prize in biology for his discovery of the principle underlying DNA, i.e., a plan as the causal principle for the creation of a new organism. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Max Delbrück (1906-1981) was a biophysicist and Nobel laureate who made seminal discoveries in the DNA-based replication of viruses. (evolutionnews.org)
  • Beyond Crowd Judgments: Data-Driven Estimation of Market Value in Association Football", zusammen mit O. Müller and A. Simons, European Journal of Operational Research (263:2): pp. 611-624, 2017. (uni.li)
  • These questions may have different origins: First, for non-experts the research honoured with this prize is very difficult to grasp because it is so abstract. (lindau-nobel.org)
  • In addition, Nobel Laureates are often visionaries of their times and inspiring role-models for both successful approaches in research and experts in the social competences and communication that are so important for the dialogue with the general public. (lindau-nobel.org)
  • Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist, is the fifth peace laureate to get the prize while in prison or under house arrest. (kron4.com)
  • Barish is the Nobel Prize laureate in physics for 2017 and an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Each recipient receives a medal, a diploma, and a monetary award prize (that has varied throughout the years). (wikipedia.org)
  • The 2017 Nobel Peace Laureate, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has strongly criticized the decision of U.S. President Donald Trump to withhold certification of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action regarding nuclear weapons in Iran. (ecumenicalnews.com)
  • Only a week before Trump's action on the U.N.-baked Iran agreement on Iran, ICAN was awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. (ecumenicalnews.com)
  • The team responsible for implementing this project was headed by Hiroshi Amano from Nagoya University, who in 2014 received the Nobel Prize for inventing … a blue light-emitting diode. (moviesonline.ca)
  • Oliver Smithies, the first University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor to win a Nobel Prize, died Wednesday at age 91, the school announced. (wral.com)
  • CRISPR-Cas9 expert receives the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize from The Rockefeller University. (rockefeller.edu)
  • The biophysicist [Dr. Paul Greengard] and Ms. von Rydingsvard established the $100,000 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize, in partnership with other supporters of Rockefeller University. (rockefeller.edu)
  • Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott speaks to writers at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston in 1999. (wbur.org)
  • The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded Tuesday to three scientists for their work on capturing gravitational waves, i.e. ripples in space-time of which the existence was predicted by Albert Einstein about a century ago. (worldbulletin.net)
  • Only the 55 most qualified young scientists from the United States are given the opportunity to enrich and share the unique atmosphere of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.The meeting is held from 28 June to 3 July 2015. (lu.se)
  • The International Committee of the Red Cross has received the most Nobel Peace Prizes, having been awarded the Prize three times for its humanitarian work. (wikipedia.org)
  • Voit received the prize for her work on dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers, functional polymers, and bioactive polymers, as well as for her involvement in building scientific networks. (chemistryviews.org)
  • Unlike the other prizes, the Peace Prize is occasionally awarded to an organisation (such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, a three-time recipient) rather than an individual. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dear Mr. President, In the last days of your presidency, we write to you as fellow Nobel Laureates to urge you to correct the historic injustice suffered by the Chagossian people, who have been living in impoverished exile for almost fifty years. (letusreturnusa.org)
  • Nobel Foundation. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Genesis Prize Foundation (GPF) and 2017 Genesis Prize Laureate and world-renowned artist and human rights activist Anish Kapoor today announced grants to five prominent NGOs engaged in alleviating the global refugee crisis. (hillel.org)
  • I find it wonderful that the Nobel Foundation chose Thaler. (economist.com.na)
  • Of the 110 individual Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, 19 have been women. (wikipedia.org)
  • Eighteen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize, more than any other Nobel Prize. (wikipedia.org)
  • There have been 19 years in which the Peace Prize was not awarded. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1892 she promised to keep Alfred Nobel informed on the progress of the peace movement and, if possible, to convince him of its effectiveness. (ipb.org)
  • Writer, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. (berkeley.edu)
  • José Ramos-Horta, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is President of Timor-Leste. (project-syndicate.org)
  • The 1935 Nobel Peace Prize to German journalist Carl Von Ossietzky so infuriated Adolf Hitler that the Nazi leader prohibited all Germans from receiving Nobel Prizes. (kron4.com)
  • He was the first Nobel peace laureate to die in captivity. (kron4.com)
  • Liu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, died in custody on July 13. (the-american-interest.com)
  • Nine months after his inauguration, Obama was controversially named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. (timelineindex.com)
  • Graduate Student Krista Freeman is selected to attend the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany. (lu.se)
  • The delegation returned to the United States on July 28, 2017 and pledged to build solidarity in the U.S. for the struggle against the stationing of THAAD in South Korea and the escalation of militarism in Asia. (no-to-nato.org)
  • Obama will leave office in January 2017, when he is expected to be succeeded by President-elect Donald Trump. (timelineindex.com)
  • The Chagos Refugees Group welcomes this important letter from Nobel Laureates to President Obama. (letusreturnusa.org)
  • Two high-tech projects of the Barry C. Barish Nobel Science Laboratory and the Industrial Chain of Genomic Sequencing Project were signed on March 13. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Representatives of the Xi'an High-tech Zone and the Barry C. Barish Nobel Science Laboratory sign the cooperation agreements. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Several outreach organisations and activities have been developed to inspire generations and disseminate knowledge about the Nobel Prize. (nobelprize.org)
  • The entire project started in 2017, and over the years it was possible to reduce the motor power needed to power the laser from 5.2 watts to just 1.1 watts. (moviesonline.ca)
  • She gave her Nobel acceptance speech two years later, but once in government, her Nobel glory faded as she faced criticism for ignoring and sometimes defending atrocities by the military, including a 2017 crackdown on Rohingya Muslims. (kron4.com)
  • Legendary human rights activist Natan Sharansky will direct a portion of the $1 million Genesis Prize awarded in his honor to Hillel CASE (Central Asia Southeastern Europe), whose student volunteers reach out to, engage with, and support and engage elderly members of the Jewish community in Ukraine and Belarus in the face of the global pandemic. (hillel.org)
  • Inferring Emotion Through Human-Computer Interaction Devices", zusammen mit M. Hibbeln, J. L. Jenkins, C. Schneider und J. S. Valacich, MIS Quarterly (41:1): pp. 1-21, 2017. (uni.li)
  • They are flung "profusely and to the point of deluge," according to the IgBill program, in the general direction of the designated Human Aerodrome, Eric Workman, who also created the Ig Nobel prizes and the evening's props. (livescience.com)
  • For the record, I made up that phrase magical machines on the fly just now - we don't want to attribute it to a Nobel laureate. (marketplace.org)
  • The leading effort of the 2017 Nobel laureates in developing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) made observing the gravitational waves possible. (worldbulletin.net)