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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Arrested in Washington, D.C. (democracynow.org)
David Baltimore, president of Caltech and a fellow Nobel Laureate, said the news of Zewail's Nobel Prize spread rapidly over campus after the announcement. (caltech.edu)
There are 331 candidates for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, whom the Norwegian Nobel Committee will reveal on Friday. (theonion.com)
They share the award with an American, Arthur Ashkin, who at 96 becomes the oldest Nobel Laureate, for developing "optical tweezers. (abcactionnews.com)
Former Polish President Lech Walesa, a 1983 Nobel Peace laureate, questioned whether Mr. Obama deserved it now. (freerepublic.com)
A picture of Nobel laureate Abiy Ahmed on display in Norway. (foreignpolicy.com)
Haldane in Princeton's Jadwin Hall Tuesday morning teaching his first class as a Nobel laureate, "Electromagnetism: Principles and Problem Solving. (princeton.edu)
Professor Martin Chalfie, who won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2008, was this year's prize in the 'win a date with a Nobel laureate' contest. (bbc.co.uk)
Amartya babu, also a Bengali Nobel Laureate, is not on NaMo's speed dial. (asianage.com)
In a previous IER post, I explained the enormous disconnect between the work of newly-anointed Nobel laureate William Nordhaus, and the United. (instituteforenergyresearch.org)
Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate last year, has reported that two men doused him with red paint as he prepared to travel by train from Moscow to Samara, on Thursday. (rt.com)
Customarily, the awards ceremony takes place on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel - at Stockholm Concert Hall, where each Laureate receives their medals and diplomas from the hands of the King of Sweden, and Nobel Prize winners are honoured during a week of scientific and cultural activities, including concerts, festive receptions and a banquet. (mpg.de)
Even before WWII, researchers from all over the world came together here at the invitation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the predecessor organization of the Max Planck Society - among them Albert Einstein and Otto Hahn, but also the first Indian Nobel laureate in literature, Rabindranath Tagore. (mpg.de)
Swedish-French Anne L'Huillier is Lund University's new Nobel laureate in physics. (lu.se)
Swedish-French Anne L'Huillier, our new Nobel laureate in physics, is a professor of Atomic physics at Department of Physics, Lund University. (lu.se)
Then our own laureate - Professor Anne L'Huillier - will hold a Nobel lecture which w. (lu.se)

The prize amount is 10 million Swedish kroner, or about $1.14 million, split between the two laureates. (princeton.edu)
The Nobel Prize committee has announced the 2010 Nobel Prize laureates for Physics. (neatorama.com)
Her acceptance speech is absolutely hilarious (which is the reason I am sharing this with you today), and she also demonstrates the usefulness of her brassiere on Nobel laureates Wolfgang Ketterle, Orhan Pamuk, and Paul Krugman. (scienceblogs.com)
The University of Groningen has also produced a number of Nobel laureates. (rug.nl)
Two additional Nobel laureates did (part of) their studies and research at the University of Groningen. (rug.nl)
The award closest to Peter Nobel's heart is the Peace Prize, with past laureates Amnesty International and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan among the most deserved winners, he says. (thelocal.se)
She demonstrated her invention and gave one to each of the Nobel laureates as a gift. (bbc.co.uk)
The event aims to stimulate discussion at the highest level on a topical science-related theme by bringing together Nobel Laureates, the world's leading scientists, key opinion leaders, policy makers, different interest groups and the general public, online as well as on-site. (go.jp)
Michael's research studentship brought him into very close contact with three other Petrean Nobel Chemistry Laureates (Max Perutz, Sir John Kendrew and Sir Aaron Klug). (cam.ac.uk)
Our' Laureates: Klaus Hasselmann and Benjamin List received their Nobel Medals in Berlin on 7 December. (mpg.de)
Already in the afternoon at 2 p.m. there will be a Nobel Symposium with the two Nobel Laureates at the Swedish Embassy in Berlin, moderated by Ranga Yogeshwar. (mpg.de)
The Nobel Laureates 2021 Klaus Hasselmann, Nobel Prize in Physics, and Benjamin List, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in conversation with Ranga Yogeshwar. (mpg.de)
The three Nobel Prize laureates in physics 2023 are being recognised for their experiments, which have given humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules. (lu.se)
Anne L'Huillier, Professor of Atomic Physics at Lund University, is one out of three laureates receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023. (lu.se)

To widespread astonishment, Nobel's last will specified that his fortune be used to create a series of prizes for those who confer the "greatest benefit on mankind" in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. (wikipedia.org)
Nature Research congratulates the awardees of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson. (nature.com)
Venki Ramakrishnan , byname of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan , (born 1952, Chidambaram , Tamil Nadu , India ), Indian-born physicist and molecular biologist who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry , along with American biophysicist and biochemist Thomas Steitz and Israeli protein crystallographer Ada Yonath , for his research into the atomic structure and function of cellular particles called ribosomes . (britannica.com)
PASADENA-Dr. Ahmed H. Zewail has won the 1999 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his groundbreaking work in viewing and studying chemical reactions at the atomic level as they occur. (caltech.edu)
Princeton University professor David W.C. MacMillan has been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in chemistry "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis. (princeton.edu)
MacMillan, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry , is the department's first faculty member to be awarded a Nobel Prize. (princeton.edu)
Benjamin List and David MacMillan are awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry 2021 for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction: organocatalysis. (princeton.edu)
This award is so well-deserved," said Muir, the Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of 1965 Professor of Chemistry, after learning of MacMillan's Nobel Prize. (princeton.edu)
The Peace Prize is the fourth Nobel award to be announced this week.The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Frances H. Arnold and the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter on Wednesday for their work harnessing the power of evolution to develop new proteins used in drugs and medical treatments. (abcactionnews.com)
Arnold was the fifth woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (abcactionnews.com)
This year's chemistry prize went to functional and simple science that has helped map cells and create targeted cancer treatments. (popsci.com)
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is all about "making difficult processes easier," according to the judges. (popsci.com)
This year's Prize in Chemistry deals with not overcomplicating matters, instead working with what is easy and simple. (popsci.com)
Functional molecules can be built even by taking a straightforward route," said Johan Åqvist, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, in a press release . (popsci.com)
This is the second chemistry Nobel for Sharpless, a professor at Scripps Research in La Jolla, California. (popsci.com)
Unlike the Nobel Prizes for Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, Literature and Peace, which were created by Nobel in his 1896 will and first awarded in 1901, the Economics Prize was conceived by Sweden's central bank in 1968 to mark its tricentenary and first awarded a year later. (thelocal.se)
The first Nobel Prizes -awards established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) in his will-were handed out in Sweden in 1901 in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. (history.com)
Michael Levitt, who was a PhD student in Peterhouse before gaining a Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, has won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (cam.ac.uk)
Presentation of this year's Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry by the Swedish Ambassador to Germany, Per Thöresson, to Klaus Hasselmann and Benjamin List on Tuesday, 7 December 2021, at 6 p.m. in the Harnack House of the Max Planck Society. (mpg.de)
Benjamin List, Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung is honoured with the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on asymmetric catalysis. (mpg.de)
[ 5 ] the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1946. (medscape.com)
The discovery of fullerenes led to the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry and played a major role in enabling three dimensional engineering at a molecular level. (cdc.gov)

On December 18th, it's time for LTH's official celebration of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics. (lu.se)

those who can nominate include members of the Swedish Academy, previous winners of the prize, presidents of national societies of authors and a chosen few literature professors. (telegraph.co.uk)
The head of the Nobel Committee, Thomas Perlmann, announced the winners in Stockholm. (huffpost.com)
Pictures of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winners, Nadia Murad, a public advocate for the Yazidi community in Iraq and a survivor of sexual violence, and Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege, displayed in Oslo on Oct. 5. (foreignpolicy.com)
Two of these winners were professors at the University when they received the prize. (rug.nl)
You can't question his burning interest in peace," Peter Nobel says, taking a sip of water during an interview with AFP in his home a week before the winners of the 2005 Nobel Prizes are to be announced. (thelocal.se)
The winners will split the 8 million Swedish kronor (about $960,000) prize money. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Explore our digital archive back to 1845, including articles by more than 150 Nobel Prize winners. (scientificamerican.com)
At a ceremony in Oslo, Norwegian Nobel Committee Chair Berit Reiss-Andersen announced the winners, saying, "Ms. Ressa and Mr. Muratov are receiving the Peace Prize for their courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and in Russia. (voanews.com)
Founded in 1929, the Harnack House has always been a meeting place for Nobel Prize winners. (mpg.de)
There is no magic formula for who is going to win a Nobel Prize, but there are many common denominators among Nobel Prize winners. (lu.se)
Pauline Mattsson has interviewed Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine. (lu.se)
However, the Nobel Prize winners are rarely driving forces in the patent process or in start-up companies. (lu.se)
Together with fellow researcher Katarina Nordqvist she collected a large volume of data on Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine. (lu.se)
Among the previous prize winners, there was a great interest in being interviewed. (lu.se)
It is an old truth that Lund University lacks Nobel Prize winners. (lu.se)
Other prize-winners with a Lund background are economist Bertil Ohlin (1977) and physicist Manne Siegbahn (1924). (lu.se)
Lund University should take more pride in educating future Nobel Prize winners. (lu.se)
In addition, it's easy to focus a lot on a single individual, but there are probably researchers in Lund today who are involved in the networks around prize-winners. (lu.se)

Seven years after the first codon of the genetic code was described, Nirenberg, Khorana, and Holley received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968. (news-medical.net)
In 2000, Arvid Carlsson received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system, in particular the neurotransmitter dopamine. (lu.se)
She includes for Lund University Arvid Carlsson (2000), Sune Bergström and Bengt Samuelsson (1982) who received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. (lu.se)

2021 Nobel Peace Prize: Freedom for the Press or the US? (consortiumnews.com)

Nobel's instructions named a Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize, the members of whom were appointed shortly after the will was approved in April 1897. (wikipedia.org)
(CNN) -- The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Liu Xiaobo, a leading Chinese dissident who is serving an 11-year prison term after repeatedly calling for human rights and democratization, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced. (cnn.com)
The president of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, said Liu won for his 'long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. (cnn.com)
In announcing the prize, he said, 'The Norwegian Nobel Committee has long believed that there is a close connection between human rights and peace. (cnn.com)
This is a tradition we are very proud of, and this is a tradition for which the Norwegian Nobel Committee has received much applause,' Lundestad said. (cnn.com)
The decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee does not represent the wish of the majority of the people in the world, particularly that of the developing countries,' said Jiang Yu, a Chinese Foreign Ministry official. (cnn.com)
Announcing the award, Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said Murad had "shown uncommon courage in recounting her own suffering and speaking up on behalf of other victims. (abcactionnews.com)
The Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, composed of five members appointed by the country's Parliament. (livescience.com)
The Norwegian Nobel Committee Friday awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia "for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. (voanews.com)

The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. (abcactionnews.com)
There were 331 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 -- the second highest number ever. (abcactionnews.com)
Donna Strickland, a Canadian physicist, was awarded the 2018 prize jointly with Gérard Mourou, from France, for their work on generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses. (abcactionnews.com)
A day earlier, American James Allison and Japan's Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine for a pioneering approach to cancer treatment, which harnesses the body's immune system to attack cancer cells. (abcactionnews.com)
Nobel Prize Dialogue Tokyo 2018 is produced by Nobel Media AB in cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). (go.jp)
Nobel Prize winner Arvid Carlsson (1923-2018) did not receive the prestigious Nobel Prize while living or working in Lund - but he is an alumnus! (lu.se)

The chairwoman of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, poses with a picture of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in the Nobel Institute in Oslo on October 11, 2019. (foreignpolicy.com)
Couple Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo jointly won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize with Harvard's Michael Kremer. (asianage.com)
Swedish Academy defends choice for 2019 Nobel literature prize. (asianage.com)

Leave a comment on this post predicting the winner(s) of one of this year's Nobel Prizes. (scienceblogs.com)
Liu Xiaobo is a worthy winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. (cnn.com)
An empty chair represents imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo at Friday's ceremony in Oslo, Norway. (cnn.com)
Jonathan Mann profiles Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo in a special show on CNN International and on CNN.com. (cnn.com)
China has responded furiously since the Nobel committee announced on October 8 that Liu would be its peace prize winner. (cnn.com)
Congratulations to Andre Geim, new Nobel Prize winner in physics. (neatorama.com)
The winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics, which he shared with Sheldon Glashow and Abdus Salam, Weinberg "revolutionised particle physics, quantum field theory and cosmology with conceptual breakthroughs which still form the foundation of our understanding of physical reality," says CERN. (cosmosmagazine.com)
Senior Congress leader took a swipe at PM Modi over Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee's remarks that Indian economy is on shaky ground. (asianage.com)
Each winner also gets a diploma and a gold medal at the prize ceremony on Dec 10. (chinadaily.com.cn)
Roth, who is also a Nobel winner, described Arrow as an Albert Einstein of economics. (stanford.edu)
She considers that there should not be so much emphasis on which university a Nobel Prize winner works at when they receive the prize. (lu.se)
This paper contains a study of the Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo's texts on the Iraq war, and the implications of the problem representation encompassed in his view on the war. (lu.se)

The Nobel Peace Prize website says the committee may sometimes add nominations to the list accrued by Feb. 1, but once names are whittled down into a shortlist, the nomination process is closed. (politico.com)
Nobel Prize Committee Chair Thorbjørn Jagland is shamelessly seeking the spotlight. (reason.com)
But the real story is that Thorbjørn Jagland, the new committee chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, wanted to start his tenure with a splash. (reason.com)
The Storting selects the Nobel Committee, but the tradition is to select emeritus members of the political community that are no longer in active politics. (reason.com)
Some legal experts suggested Jagland should resign from the Nobel Committee. (reason.com)
Leading an international organization of 50 nations could lead critics to question the independence of the Nobel Committee, said Eivind Smith, law professor at the University of Oslo. (reason.com)
One wonders if the Nobel Committee wanted to achieve the status provided by giving the Prize to the sitting American president," said Nils Buthenschøn, president of the Human Rights Institute. (reason.com)
The institute assists the committee in selecting the prize each year. (cnn.com)
Nabokov was nominated in 1974, but lost out to two Swedes, Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson, both of whom also happened to be members of the Nobel Committee at the time. (telegraph.co.uk)
Despite the occasional polite nod to Alfred Nobel, the committee - which will name this year's award on Saturday - has never made known his vision of peace through global demilitarization, writes Fredrik S. Heffermehl. (consortiumnews.com)
Nobel committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland, in awarding the prize Friday, likened Liu Xiaobo to Nelson Mandela, the former South African president who fought the apartheid regime. (cnn.com)
The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists -- the Taliban and Hamas this morning -- in criticizing the president for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,' said Democratic National Committee director Brad Woodhouse, according to the Web site Politico. (freerepublic.com)
The Nobel Committee awarded half the prize for physics to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. (huffpost.com)
This chemical reaction is "elegant and efficient," the Nobel Committee stated , and is now utilized in the development of pharmaceuticals, mapping DNA, and more. (popsci.com)
The Nobel committee is usually looking to make a statement. (foreignpolicy.com)
In his more recent research, the prize committee said, Deaton has highlighted "how reliable measures of individual household consumption levels can be used to discern mechanisms behind economic development. (nber.org)
But Ressa, as noted by the Nobel committee, has remained tireless in her work, focusing on disinformation in social media and reporting on President Rodrigo Duterte's controversial anti-drug campaign. (voanews.com)
The Nobel Committee had wanted to give Carter the prize that year for his efforts, along with Anwar Sadat and Menachim Begin, but was prevented from doing so by a technicality-he had not been nominated by the official deadline. (history.com)
It lead to him being sentenced to two years in prison, and, according to the Nobel Prize committee, it started his over twenty year long fight for a more open and democratic China. (lu.se)

In this way, we have found that to a great degree they contribute to fulfil what Alfred Nobel wrote in his will, namely to confer the greatest benefit on mankind," says Pauline Mattsson, associate senior lecturer in Research Policy at the Lund University School of Economics and Management. (lu.se)

Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold say the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize missed a chance to help end a war so dangerous that Biden is warning of "nuclear Armageddon. (consortiumnews.com)

On October 11, 2002, former President Jimmy Carter wins the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development. (history.com)

However, this is not the first physics prize for Andre Geim. (neatorama.com)

Concurrent efforts by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, especially that of its founders, American cardiologist Bernard Lown and Russian cardiologist Yevgeniy Chazov, earned the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. (medscape.com)
Drs. Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein, who won the Nobel Prize in 1985 for their work on cholesterol metabolism, highlighted the summit with their keynote address. (cdc.gov)

Nobel Prizes were first awarded in 1901. (wikipedia.org)
The Nobel Prizes, beginning in 1901, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, beginning in 1969, have been awarded 609 times to 975 people and 25 organisations. (wikipedia.org)
There was something of a scandal when Leo Tolstoy was snubbed for the inaugural Nobel Prize for Literature in 1901. (telegraph.co.uk)

The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize went to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end," after brokering a deal with the leftist rebel group FARC. (abcactionnews.com)
Princeton University professor F. Duncan Haldane has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. (princeton.edu)

Beijing also put pressure on its allies and other countries not to attend the peace prize ceremony, and it hastily announced its own honor -- the Confucius Peace Prize, which was awarded Thursday to former Taiwanese Vice President Lien Chan. (cnn.com)
Could this same reasoning explain why the major news media in the Boston area , where the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony happens, almost never cover or even mention the Ig Nobel Prizes? (improbable.com)
Campbell received his accolade at a Nobel Prize Award Ceremony today (10 December) in Stockholm, streamed live on YouTube, having been originally named back in October . (siliconrepublic.com)
Peter has three times attended the lavish Nobel prize ceremony and banquet, held every December 10 on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, and plans to attend this year again. (thelocal.se)
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, part of this year's Nobel Prize ceremony will take place on 7 December in Berlin's Harnack House, the conference venue of the Max Planck Society. (mpg.de)

The 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced on October 8th. (telegraph.co.uk)
No one ever thought to nominate James Joyce, the towering figure of 20th-century literature, let alone give him the main prize. (telegraph.co.uk)
Now 85 years of age, Campbell is the third Trinity College graduate ever to have been awarded a Nobel Prize (E.T.S. Walton got one for splitting the atom, and Samuel Beckett for his contribution to literature). (siliconrepublic.com)
Nobel prize for literature: Who is Svetlana Alexievich? (csmonitor.com)
Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday. (csmonitor.com)

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali won the Nobel Prize for Peace for his efforts to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea. (asianage.com)

In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) funded the establishment of the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, to also be administered by the Nobel Foundation. (wikipedia.org)
The award caps a week of Nobel Prizes and is technically known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. (huffpost.com)
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi congratulated Banerjee on winning the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. (asianage.com)
Arrow's pioneering contributions to general equilibrium theory and welfare theory led him to become the youngest person to date to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he received in 1972 together with British economist Sir John Hicks. (stanford.edu)

Physicist Brian Keating talks about his book Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor . (scientificamerican.com)

MacMillan joins a number of other Princeton faculty and alumni who have been awarded Nobel Prizes , including Syukuro Manabe , who won the Nobel in physics yesterday. (princeton.edu)
Half of the Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, and Syukuro Manabe 'for the physical modelling of the Earth's climate, the quantification of variations and the reliable prediction of global warming. (mpg.de)

He won the 2001 prize for his work on using catalysts that wouldn't be consumed by an oxidation reaction where electrons were lost. (popsci.com)
The Economics Prize has over the years been criticized as not being a "real" Nobel, and a newspaper article Peter Nobel wrote in 2001 refuelled the debate. (thelocal.se)

Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist most famously known for the invention of dynamite. (wikipedia.org)
A Swedish sociology professor has nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize, saying that awarding the former NSA employee would correct Nobel Committee's mistake in giving the award to President Barack Obama in 2009. (politico.com)
However Tolstoy's reply to his Swedish admirers suggests he was sanguine about missing out: "I was very happy to know that the Nobel Prize was not awarded to me," he wrote. (telegraph.co.uk)
The Swedish Academy is often criticised for being too Euro-centric, which perhaps explains why the great Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was not awarded the prize. (telegraph.co.uk)
Ben Feringa receives the Nobel Prize from Swedish King Carl Gustaf. (rug.nl)
The paradox is striking: While Nobel built his fortune on dynamite and bought Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors, he detested the weapons industry. (thelocal.se)

Alfred Nobel was born on 21 October 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family of engineers. (wikipedia.org)
According to his will and testament read in Stockholm on 30 December 1896, a foundation established by Alfred Nobel would reward those who serve humanity. (wikipedia.org)

Last year's prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its groundbreaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons. (abcactionnews.com)

Anne L'Huillier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz. (lu.se)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi also congratulated the economist for winning the Nobel prize. (asianage.com)
Amartya Sen was the first Indian economist to win the Nobel Prize in 1998. (asianage.com)
The 58-year-old economist bagged the coveted prize jointly with his wife Esther Duflo and another economist. (asianage.com)
Last year the prize went to Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi banker and economist. (livescience.com)
Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow was a leading figure in the field of economic theory. (stanford.edu)
Nobel Prize-winning Stanford economist Kenneth Arrow died in his home in Palo Alto on Tuesday morning. (stanford.edu)

On 10 December 1896, Alfred Nobel died in his villa in San Remo, Italy, from a cerebral haemorrhage. (wikipedia.org)
When Nobel died in 1896, Norway was not yet independent, though there was local self-rule. (reason.com)

Norwegian: Nobelprisen Norwegian: [nʊˈbɛ̀lːˌpriːsn̩] ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. (wikipedia.org)
The Nobel Prize was funded by Alfred Nobel's personal fortune. (wikipedia.org)
Alfred Nobel's testament assigned the responsibility of the Peace Prize to the Norwegian parliament, which is called the Storting. (reason.com)
The Nobel awarders will present the peace prize on Friday with full confidence they will once again get away with the betrayal of the antimilitarist purpose at the heart of Alfred Nobel's testament in 1895, writes Fredrik S. Heffermehl. (consortiumnews.com)

Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- An empty chair stood in for imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo as he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in absentia on Friday amid protests and condemnation from China. (cnn.com)
The award was announced Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. (abcactionnews.com)

The Nobel Peace Prize winner's cause is about more than just press freedom. (foreignpolicy.com)

Amnesty International said it had received reports from 'reliable sources' that Chinese diplomats in Norway have been pressuring Chinese residents into joining anti-Nobel demonstrations. (cnn.com)

Friends have asked me to prepare for a speech, but I've only prepared one for Xiaobo not winning the prize. (cnn.com)
I doubt the Nobel will help Xiaobo right this moment, but in the long run it will leave a legacy that is sure to help bring democratic reform and freedom to China, that will far outlast Liu's life,' Pu told CNN outside the gates of Liu's apartment complex. (cnn.com)
In December 2010 Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China" (Nobel Prize, 2013). (lu.se)

Nobel despised people who cared more about profits than society's well-being, Peter says, reiterating his vehement criticism of the Nobel Economics Prize which he says Alfred Nobel would never have created. (thelocal.se)
The Economics Prize has nestled itself in and is awarded as if it were a Nobel Prize. (thelocal.se)
Is Economics worthy of a Nobel prize? (thelocal.se)
Appropriately, the prize for economics went to the executives of four Icelandic banks. (bbc.co.uk)
The Nobel Prize in economics was first awarded in 1969. (history.com)

The Nobel committee's award of the Peace Prize to the European Union may be head-scratching to some, given the continent's angry economic divisions and NATO's role in recent wars. (consortiumnews.com)

Founded in 1969, the prize is open to English-language authors from around the world. (asianage.com)

Svallfors also noted that Obama was a past recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, which he called a correctable mistake. (politico.com)

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna were awarded the prize for discovering one of gene technology's sharpest tools. (huffpost.com)

But before we look more at Jagland, let's look at the history of the Peace Prize. (reason.com)
Author Ida Jackson quipped that the Prize should be renamed "the-prize-you-get-if-you-are-a-politician-Jagland wants-to-dine-with. (reason.com)
While Chinese officials have said the prize represents a Western perspective, human rights activists in China 'represent the world's common values and standards,' Jagland said. (cnn.com)

Read more about her brassiere at the US Patent Office and you can learn more about the IgNobel Prizes at the Journal for Improbable Research . (scienceblogs.com)

The 1968 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded jointly to Marshall W. Nirenberg, Har Gobind Khorana, and Robert W. Holley. (news-medical.net)

He received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1983. (britannica.com)

We have a very strong tradition of awarding the prize to human rights activists of many different kinds,' Geir Lundestad, director of the Nobel Institute, told CNN. (cnn.com)
Lundestad cited German pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietsky in 1935, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in 1986, Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 1991, and Iranian campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003 as examples of human rights activists who have won the prize. (cnn.com)

A prize may not be shared among more than three individuals, although the Nobel Peace Prize can be awarded to organisations of more than three people. (wikipedia.org)
reports each year on the selection of the Nobel Peace Prize, and has interviewed many of the recipients over the years. (democracynow.org)
White House Plans 18-Month Long Occupation of Iraq, But Remains Silent On Humanitarian Aid: A Conversation with Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Kathy Kelly and Democracy Now! (democracynow.org)
The decision to award the 2013 prize to Edward Snowden would - in addition to being well justified in itself - also help to save the Nobel Peace Prize from the disrepute that incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision to award U.S. President Barack Obama 2009 award," Svallfors said. (politico.com)
The Nobel Peace prize however, is corrupt. (politico.com)
Thus the Norwegians would be in charge of the Peace Prize because they would be able to keep the Prize untainted from national political concerns. (reason.com)
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said the awarding of the prize to Liu was 'blasphemy against the peace prize' that could harm relations between China and Norway. (cnn.com)
His acts are in complete contradiction to the purpose of the Nobel Peace Prize,' spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said. (cnn.com)
The Nobel Peace Prize has devolved into a prize for random good things that don't offend a culture dedicated to endless war, writes David Swanson. (consortiumnews.com)
Exclusive: Lost in the celebration over the Nobel Peace Prize to the UN agency eliminating the Syrian government's chemical weapons is the question of who was really behind the Aug. 21 poison-gas attack near Damascus. (consortiumnews.com)
The Onion takes a look at the top contenders for this year's Peace Prize. (theonion.com)
Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the president of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize. (freerepublic.com)
I do believe this Peace Prize will turn out to be a jinx for Obama, as our country slides into race riots, and the world sinks into nuclear warfare. (freerepublic.com)
WFP won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger around the world and improve conditions for peace in areas affected by conflict. (huffpost.com)
Ressa holds up the Nobel Peace Prize diploma and medal. (foreignpolicy.com)
How Political Is This Year's Nobel Peace Prize? (foreignpolicy.com)
Al Gore is a 5:2 favorite to win the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, while President George Bush is the definitive long shot at 100:1. (livescience.com)
If Al Gore won an Academy Award and the Nobel Peace Prize for 'An Inconvenient Truth,' it would probably be considered the most successful documentary in history," said BetUS.com spokesperson Reed Richards. (livescience.com)
The Nobel Peace Prize, for which nominees are revealed decades later, will be announced Friday. (livescience.com)

Lab scientists who win a Nobel Prize have a street named after them. (lbl.gov)
Medals at the Olympics, the Oscars in Hollywood, Nobel Prizes for scientists - but what about an award for cities working with sustainability? (lu.se)

He becomes the first to win, as an individual, both a Nobel Prize (this year, together with Konstantin Novoselov, for experiments with the substance graphene) and an Ig Nobel Prize (in the year 2000, shared with Sir Michael Berry, for using magnets to levitate a frog). (neatorama.com)
Quantum entanglement theorists win Nobel Prize for loophole-busting experiments. (popsci.com)

The Nobel show needed a superstar this year. (reason.com)
In a footnote found in two of Benedict's sworn affidavits, the federal agent describes the 77-year-old British novelist as "the late Lord V.S. Naipaul, a Nobel prize winning author. (thesmokinggun.com)
The prizes to Klaus Hasselmann and Benjamin List will be awarded this year at the Harnack House / Livestream on 7 December from 6 p.m. (mpg.de)
This year, the Nobel Prizes awarded in a hybrid format in pandemic-curtailed local ceremonies. (mpg.de)

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to scientist who sequenced the Neanderthal genome. (popsci.com)
Irishman William Campbell has received the Nobel Prize for Medicine that he won back in October - Campbell's role in discoveries concerning therapies to fight roundworm parasitic infections helped him win the accolade. (siliconrepublic.com)
In 1931, he established that this substance was vitamin C. Szent-Györgyi was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for this discovery in 1937. (rug.nl)
She is interested in how research results are used, more specifically the use of Nobel Prize research within physiology and medicine and how it benefits mankind. (lu.se)

Nobel Prize Dialogue is a free-of-charge, full-day event inspired by Nobel Week Dialogue which has been taking place in Sweden in Nobel Week since 2012. (go.jp)
I think that Sweden is regarded to a great extent as a fair and non-corrupt society, which gives the prize status. (lu.se)

Campbell and Ōmura's Avermectin's discovery is ongoing, too, with the drug "showing efficacy against an expanding number of other parasitic diseases", according to the Nobel Prize organisers. (siliconrepublic.com)
It was at number 10 Sölvegatan, at "Gamla Farmakologen", that Carlsson, along with Margit Lindqvist, Tor Magnusson and Bertil Waldeck laid the foundations for what would later become the Nobel Prize-winning discovery. (lu.se)

Nobel Prize Lecture. (bvsalud.org)

Five individuals and two organisations have received more than one Nobel Prize. (wikipedia.org)
Soon thereafter, the other prize-awarding organisations were designated. (wikipedia.org)

Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards available in their respective fields. (wikipedia.org)

His international awards include the Welch Prize, King Faisal Prize, the Wolf Prize, the Carl Zeiss Award, the Leonardo da Vinci Award of Excellence, the Bonner Chemiepreis Award, and the Medal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. (caltech.edu)
Among his national prizes are many from the American Chemical Society, including the Harrison-Howe Award, the Peter Debye Award, the E. Bright Wilson Award, and the Buck-Whitney Award. (caltech.edu)

Of those, 216 were individuals and 115 were organizations, according to Nobel organizers. (abcactionnews.com)

Because of Svallfors's professorship at Umeå, he is one of the people who can submit a nomination to the Nobel organization. (politico.com)

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