• FILE - Nobel Peace Prize winners Dmitry Muratov from Russia, right, and Maria Ressa of the Philippines embrace during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at Oslo City Hall, Norway, Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. (wtrf.com)
  • WASHINGTON (AP) - Winning the Nobel Peace Prize often provides a boost for a grassroots activist or international group working for peace and human rights, opening doors and elevating the causes for which they fight. (wtrf.com)
  • For the two journalists who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, the past year has not been easy. (wtrf.com)
  • The Norwegian Nobel Committee handed out the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday to two investigative journalists, one from the Philippines, one from Russia. (wmra.org)
  • SIMON: It's been decades since the Nobel Peace Prize went to journalists. (wmra.org)
  • Malala Yousafzai has won the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Indian child-rights activist Kailash Satyarthi. (vox.com)
  • Filipina photojournalist Hannah Reyes Morales has been chosen as one of this year's Nobel Peace Prize photographers. (gmanetwork.com)
  • We are very happy to have worked with two such talented, young documentary photographers, who are also from the Nobel Peace Prize laureates' home countries,' Nobel Peace Center Director of Exhibitions Nina Frang Høyum was quoted as saying. (gmanetwork.com)
  • I'm honored to be this year's Nobel Peace Prize photographer with @nannaheitmann,' the Pinay photojournalist said in her Instagram post. (gmanetwork.com)
  • The Nobel Peace Prize exhibition is happening this December 11 in Oslo, Norway. (gmanetwork.com)
  • MOSCOW - A court in Belarus has sentenced last year's Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison for allegedly trying to overthrow the government. (kaxe.org)
  • The case was widely seen as political retribution for Viasna's push for democratic reforms in Belarus - a cause for which Bialiatski shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize with the Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties. (kaxe.org)
  • Traditionally, the lavish Nobel ceremonies are held Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of prize founder Alfred Nobel, at an ornate city hall in Stockholm for all but the Peace Prize that is held in Oslo in neighboring Norway. (local10.com)
  • On Friday, the Peace Prize will be awarded virtually with a presentation in Oslo by the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and a ceremonial presentation and an acceptance speech in Rome, Italy, by David Beasley, head of the United Nations World Food Program. (local10.com)
  • Berit Reiss-Andersen, who was representing the committee this weekend, went on the offensive in her speech at Saturday's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. (newsinenglish.no)
  • Reiss-Andersen made a point of how the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Santos alone, for his "resolute and courageous efforts" to bring an end to the country's civil war. (newsinenglish.no)
  • This year's Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 6, in the midst of a period of flaring global conflicts. (latintimes.com)
  • Next week's Nobel Prize announcements will celebrate a string of groundbreaking achievements, but with conflicts raging around the globe, experts solicited about possible Peace Prize winners are scratching their heads. (latintimes.com)
  • There is every need for the Nobel Peace Prize to be awarded even this year. (latintimes.com)
  • I think that climate change is a really good focus for the Peace Prize this year," Dan Smith, the head of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, told AFP. (latintimes.com)
  • One bright spot came in June, when his Nobel Peace Prize sold at auction for $103.5 million, shattering the old record for a Nobel. (counton2.com)
  • And on the same day, the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is scheduled to take place in Oslo. (upr.org)
  • Ressa holds up the Nobel Peace Prize diploma and medal. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The Nobel Peace Prize winner's cause is about more than just press freedom. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • How Political Is This Year's Nobel Peace Prize? (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, shows pictures of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winners Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, in Oslo, Oct. 8, 2021. (go.com)
  • Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. (go.com)
  • The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which is responsible for selecting the Nobel Peace Prize recipients each year, decided to award this year's prize to both Ressa, of the Philippines , and Muratov, of Russia , 'for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. (go.com)
  • Ressa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov on Oct. 8, 2021. (go.com)
  • Muratov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa on Oct. 8, 2021. (go.com)
  • On Friday, the activist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (latimes.com)
  • She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize - sharing it with Denis Mukwege, a Congolese doctor - on Friday for her work to end sexual violence in war zones. (latimes.com)
  • Murad shares similarities with Malala Yousafzai , a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was shot by Islamic militants in her native Pakistan and became an activist for girls' education. (latimes.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • This year's Nobel Prize announcements will take place 2-9 October. (nobelprize.org)
  • Who could win this year's Nobel Prize for Economics? (livemint.com)
  • This year's Nobel season approaches as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shattered decades of almost uninterrupted peace in Europe and raised the risks of a nuclear disaster. (wtrf.com)
  • The Nobel Foundation said Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, that it had decided to raise the amount for this year's Nobel Prize awards by 1 million kronor ($90,000) to 11 million kronor ($986,270). (keloland.com)
  • STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel Foundation said Friday that it will raise the award amount for this year's Nobel Prizes by 1 million kronor ($90,000) to 11 million kronor ($986,270) as the Swedish currency has plummeted recently. (keloland.com)
  • This year's Nobel Prize winners will be announced in early October. (keloland.com)
  • Excluding the impact of the extra week in this year's fiscal calendar, Barnes & Noble store sales increased 2% for the quarter and the full year as compared to the same periods in fiscal 2005. (authorlink.com)
  • Excluding the impact of the extra week in this year's fiscal calendar, B. Dalton store sales decreased 30% for the quarter and 29% for the full year as compared to the same periods in fiscal 2005, primarily due to the closing of 20 stores since the fourth quarter of 2005. (authorlink.com)
  • Berit Reiss-Andersen of the Norwegian Nobel Committee opens the box containing the gold medal to this year's prizewinner, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. (newsinenglish.no)
  • She met the committee's critics head-on Saturday when she stated that all forms of peace work outlined by Nobel (contributions to fraternity between nations, to the abolition or reduction of standing armies, or to the holding and promotion of peace congresses) were represented when Santos won this year's prize for helping to end a 52-year-old armed conflict with FARC guerrillas in Colombia. (newsinenglish.no)
  • The Nobel Committee has decided to award this year's Nobel Prize for pioneering contributions to the general understanding of complex systems. (fzu.cz)
  • How the Dies and this year's Nobel Prize were all about his ideas. (erasmusmagazine.nl)
  • China's 11th five-year plan is another major step in China's transition to a market economy, Joseph E. Stiglitz , a Nobel Prize laureate said here on Sunday. (chinadigitaltimes.net)
  • Maria Ressa is the first Nobel laureate from the Philippines. (gmanetwork.com)
  • Ten years for a Nobel Prize laureate shows clearly what Lukashenka's regime is. (kaxe.org)
  • In Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War , Taylor applies his writing talent and expertise to the riveting story of Gordon Gould's seemingly lifelong struggle for the recognition and compensation he rightly deserved in the field of laser technology. (hbs.edu)
  • Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War presents a revealing look at personal rivalry and the patent process, and how they relate to scientific discovery and technological development. (hbs.edu)
  • A picture of Nobel laureate Abiy Ahmed on display in Norway. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in economics. (who.int)
  • The global recognized scientist, educator, national and Presidential scientific advisor, and Nobel Laureate sadly died of pneumonia on February 2, 2008 at the age of 82. (cdc.gov)
  • Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2023. (nobelprize.org)
  • In James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store we have a stunningly good 2023 Book of the Year, one in which we take great pride and great joy in celebrating. (barnesandnobleinc.com)
  • The inaugural Barnes & Noble Author of the Year Award for 2023 is given to David Grann. (barnesandnobleinc.com)
  • BU alum Drew Weissman's research into the mRNA technology behind effective COVID-19 vaccines has given him a share of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. (bu.edu)
  • Physician and scientist Drew Weissman, who earned both an MD and a PhD at Boston University, and his research collaborator, Katalin Karikó, have won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering work developing the technology that powers the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, the Nobel committee announced on Monday. (bu.edu)
  • In 2023, she becomes the first female researcher ever to solely, in their own name, receive the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. (lu.se)
  • The Nobel Prize Award ceremony will take place at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden on 10 December 2023 as is tradition. (lu.se)
  • Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian-born novelist and academic who lives in the U.K., poses with his 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature medal after being presented it at the Swedish ambassador's residence in London. (upr.org)
  • The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney went on to be a holiday bestseller after being announced as the 2021 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year. (barnesandnobleinc.com)
  • Soon the winner of the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 will be announced and Tommy will be one of the first to know. (lu.se)
  • Very soon the Nobel prize winners of 2021 will be announced. (lu.se)
  • Parsing the tea leaves suggests that it will be a Nobel calibre economist with a significant body of work on a broad theme that the prize committee is keen to recognize. (livemint.com)
  • The famously secretive Nobel Committee never leaks or hints who will win its prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics or peace. (wtrf.com)
  • Did you get a sense for why the Nobel Committee thought it was important this year? (wmra.org)
  • The Nobel Committee, in a statement , said that she had won for advancing the right to education for girls and for setting an example for youth around the world. (vox.com)
  • Last year, when Yousafzai was nominated for the prize but did not win it, I wrote that the Nobel Committee had missed an opportunity to honor the civilians who resist armed groups' attempts to control their communities, and who are vital to any effective peaceful opposition. (vox.com)
  • That was the overall conclusion drawn on Saturday by both the prizewinner, the Norwegian Nobel Committee and others who have called it "a classic prize. (newsinenglish.no)
  • The Norwegian committee members have grown defensive in recent years after criticism that many prizes have not met the terms of benefactor Alfred Nobel's will . (newsinenglish.no)
  • In many ways it would be appropriate for the committee not to hand out any prize this year," Swedish professor of international affairs Peter Wallensteen told AFP. (latintimes.com)
  • It's very hard to think that this could be the result," the secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Olav Njolstad told AFP, "but I will not say it's impossible. (latintimes.com)
  • The laureates contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times," a statement by the Nobel committee says ( watch the video of the announcement here ). (bu.edu)
  • She told him that Thomas Perlmann from the Nobel committee was trying to reach him, but apparently had a wrong number. (bu.edu)
  • The Nobel committee is usually looking to make a statement. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised Ressa and Muratov for being 'representatives of all journalists who stand up for this ideal in a world in which democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions. (go.com)
  • As a journalist and Rappler's CEO, she 'has focused critical attention' on Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's controversial policies, including his 'murderous anti-drug campaign,' according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. (go.com)
  • Novaya Gazeta, with Muratov at its helm, 'is the most independent newspaper in Russia today, with a fundamentally critical attitude towards power,' according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. (go.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)
  • The pattern of prizes has gradually evolved over the years. (livemint.com)
  • When the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901, the prize amount was 150,782 kronor per category, the foundation said. (keloland.com)
  • The 2020 Nobel prizes were announced in October. (local10.com)
  • Instead, the academy said two Nobel Prizes in Literature will be handed out next year, the 2018 prize and the 2019 prize. (apnews.com)
  • The internal feud within the academy - which only hands out one of the Nobel prizes - was triggered by an abuse scandal linked to Jean-Claude Arnault, a major cultural figure in Sweden who is also the husband of poet Katarina Frostenson, an academy member. (apnews.com)
  • FILE - The Nobel medal in physiology or medicine presented to Charles M. Rice is displayed, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, during a ceremony in New York. (keloland.com)
  • In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, photo provided by Nobel Prize Outreach, Louise Glck stands beside the medal awarded to her for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. The pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies were altered this year amid measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. (local10.com)
  • How did you end up giving both speech at one of the world's most watched press conferences and then also giving the ceremony speech at the Nobel ceremony 2020? (lu.se)
  • On Oct. 13, 2016, the foundation also announced that beloved singer-songwriter Bob Dylan earned the coveted Nobel Prize for literature for 'new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. (upworthy.com)
  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 is awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage , Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for their design and production of molecular machines. (nobelprize.org)
  • The 2016 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry have miniaturised machines and taken chemistry to a new dimension. (nobelprize.org)
  • RESSA: The attacks against us in Rappler began five years ago when we demanded an end to impunity on two fronts - Rodrigo Duterte's drug war and Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook. (wmra.org)
  • According to the Nobel Peace Center , Ressa and Muratov will come to open the exhibit themselves and 'see how [Reyes and Heitmann] depict the laureates' work for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia. (gmanetwork.com)
  • In the Philippines, the legal travails of Ressa and her news website Rappler under former President Rodrigo Duterte have not eased with his exit from office on June 30 at the end of a turbulent six-year term that activists regarded as a human rights calamity in an Asian bastion of democracy. (counton2.com)
  • STOCKHOLM - The pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies have been reined in this year amid measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. (local10.com)
  • On Monday, the author Abdulrazak Gurnah was the first to receive his award, the Nobel Prize in Literature, in a ceremony at the Swedish ambassador's residence in London. (upr.org)
  • The Nobel Foundation Prize Award Ceremony in 2008. (upworthy.com)
  • The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony takes place every year on 10 December - the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. (lu.se)
  • The occasions that made Tommy pretty famous last year were the announcement of the winners of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel and the speech to the winners during the Nobel prize ceremony. (lu.se)
  • When the Nobel prize ceremony came two months later in the Stockholm City Hall I was of course prepared in another way. (lu.se)
  • Marie Curie (left), French physicist and winner of the 1903 Nobel Prize for physics, Canadian Donna Strickland (middle), who won the 2018 prize for her work with lasers, and physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer (right), who won for her work in atomic physics in 1963. (npr.org)
  • She was named a 2018 Person of the Year by TIME magazine. (go.com)
  • Today the Swedish Academy will announce the recipient of the world's most prestigious literary award, the coveted Nobel Prize in Literature . (thediplomat.com)
  • NEW YORK, NY/3/5/07-Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, March 5 reported sales for the fourth quarter and for the full year ended February 3, 2007, falling well below analysts expectations. (authorlink.com)
  • We want to gather the world's sharpest brains when it comes to game theory, hoping to understand what we have learned on this subject during the past 100 years. (lu.se)
  • The Economics Prize -- the only Nobel not created in Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel's 1895 will -- wraps up the announcements on October 9. (latintimes.com)
  • On Tuesday 10 December it is exactly fifty years since Jan Tinbergen received the very first Nobel Economics Prize. (erasmusmagazine.nl)
  • It has been fifty years since Rotterdam's most famous economist received the very first Nobel Economics Prize. (erasmusmagazine.nl)
  • Donna Strickland seemed genuinely surprised to learn that she was only the third woman to ever win the Nobel Prize in physics. (npr.org)
  • Mourou was the co-recipient of his Nobel with Donna Strickland for their development of Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) at the University of Rochester. (bigthink.com)
  • Arnault also has been suspected of violating century-old Nobel rules by leaking names of winners of the prestigious award - allegedly seven times, starting in 1996. (apnews.com)
  • Nobel Prize winners usually attend a royal banquet inside the glittering Stockholm City Hall, where they accept their awards from the king and rub shoulders with other dignitaries and laureates. (upr.org)
  • Dear Mr. Trump: All 6 U.S. science Nobel Prize winners this year so far are immigrants. (upworthy.com)
  • These Nobel Prize winners make an excellent and irrefutable case for nurturing our immigration system. (upworthy.com)
  • What he can tell though is what it felt like to be the one to explain to the world about the research of the winners Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson last year. (lu.se)
  • Muratov also donated his $500,000 Nobel cash award to charity. (counton2.com)
  • When he said this to The Hill , he'd just won the Nobel Prize for chemistry. (upworthy.com)
  • The 2022 Book of the Year, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, continues to top sales charts and has recently been adapted as an Apple Original Series. (barnesandnobleinc.com)
  • 2016's Nobel Laureates in Chemistry have taken molecular systems out of equilibrium's stalemate and into energy-filled states in which their movements can be controlled. (nobelprize.org)
  • Despite her youth, Malala Yousafzai has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education, and has shown by example that children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own situations," the statement reads. (vox.com)
  • More than six decades after the first Nobel was awarded, the Swedish Central Bank (Sveriges Riksbank) in 1968 provided a donation to the Nobel Foundation to institute an Economics award in memory of Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel Prize. (livemint.com)
  • The Swedish Academy has often put the spotlight on little-known authors, though last year it went to French feminist icon Annie Ernaux. (latintimes.com)
  • The decision was made Thursday at a weekly meeting of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on the grounds that the group was in too deep a crisis to choose a Nobel winner properly. (apnews.com)
  • The Svenska Dagbladet paper reported last month that among those groped by Arnault was Swedish Crown Princess Victoria 12 years ago. (apnews.com)
  • We meet at least once a month the whole year around and in between there's a lot of work…We are ten people so we are rather few, but we don't get to choose the winner, it is the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences who does that," Tommy explains. (lu.se)
  • Barnes & Noble store sales were $1.5 billion for the quarter and $4.5 billion for the full year. (authorlink.com)
  • The company opened 32 Barnes & Noble stores in fiscal 2006 and closed 18. (authorlink.com)
  • Barnes & Noble.com sales were $164 million for the quarter and $433 million for the full year. (authorlink.com)
  • Barnes & Noble store sales are expected to be between $4.6 billion and $4.7 billion, increasing approximately 2% to 4% over 2006. (authorlink.com)
  • The company expects to open between 30-40 new Barnes & Noble stores and close approximately 19 stores. (authorlink.com)
  • Each year, booksellers at Barnes & Noble vote for the book that they have been most proud to sell. (barnesandnobleinc.com)
  • You just want others to share in the sheer pleasure it gives," said James Daunt, CEO of Barnes & Noble. (barnesandnobleinc.com)
  • It is such an incredible honor to be the first Author of the Year chosen by Barnes & Noble. (barnesandnobleinc.com)
  • There is no greater joy for an author than knowing that one's books have found a home with the community of Barnes & Noble readers. (barnesandnobleinc.com)
  • David Grann's body of work has been beloved by both readers and our booksellers since his very first book, The Lost City of Z ," said Shannon Devito, Senior Director of Books, Barnes & Noble. (barnesandnobleinc.com)
  • The first Barnes & Noble Book of the Year was awarded to Charlie Mackesy's The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse , where bookseller enthusiasm propelled it onto bestseller lists. (barnesandnobleinc.com)
  • The Book of the Year tops off the bookseller's impressive array of programs that champion the best of the best, including The Discover Prize, recently awarded to Amanda Peters for The Berry Pickers , monthly Book Clubs, Children's & YA Book Awards and Game of the Year, shining a spotlight on the titles that Barnes & Noble booksellers are most excited about. (barnesandnobleinc.com)
  • A second video for the COPUS Project's Year of Science and the March theme of Physics and Technology. (sciencecomedian.com)
  • In a reflection of the frictions, the Russian ambassador's invitation to the Nobel prize banquet in Stockholm in December was recently rescinded following angry protests. (latintimes.com)
  • But on Thursday, the same day he won a Nobel Prize In Literature , Dylan played guitar for the first time since 2012, picking it up midway through performing "Simple Twist Of Fate" in Las Vegas. (stereogum.com)
  • Since then, the award has been given to one, two or three individuals each year, in a variety of sub-fields ranging from welfare economics, Austrian business cycle theory, financial economics, monetarism, growth cycle theory, transaction costs, asymmetric information and game theory to behavioural economics and human capital theory. (livemint.com)
  • Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (who died before the award), received the first Nobel for behavioural economics (2002) for work related to cognitive biases, prospect theory and loss aversion. (livemint.com)
  • This award demonstrates, in a way that no previous prize has, that the prize is moving toward a Nobel in Social Science, not a Nobel in economics. (freakonomics.com)
  • A Nobel prize comes with a 10-milion krona ($1.1 million) cash award - to be shared in some cases - diplomas and gold medals. (local10.com)
  • But the award ceremonies have been dialed down this year. (local10.com)
  • Although the Nobel jury made no mention of Gallo in its citation, AFP notes, in 1986, Montagnier and Gallo shared the Lasker Award - the US equivalent of the Nobel - with Myron Essex, PhD, of the Harvard School of Public Health. (medscape.com)
  • Cite this: Luc Montagnier, Nobel-Winning Virologist Who Discovered HIV, Dies at 89 - Medscape - Feb 10, 2022. (medscape.com)
  • In East Asia, life expectancy increased by over 18 years in the two decades that preceded the most dramatic economic take-off in history. (who.int)
  • At far right, Colombian-French politician Ingrid Betancourt, who was famously kidnapped by FARC and held for six years. (newsinenglish.no)
  • They included Leynar Palacios, who lost 32 relatives when FARC bombed the church in his hometown, and, most famously, Ingrid Betancourt, the Colombian-French politician who was kidnapped and held captive for six years. (newsinenglish.no)
  • In recent years, there is more awareness that you can't remain in a eurocentric perspective, there has to be more equality and the prize has to reflect the times," Stockholm University literature professor Carin Franzen told AFP. (latintimes.com)
  • Several outreach organisations and activities have been developed to inspire generations and disseminate knowledge about the Nobel Prize. (nobelprize.org)
  • Since 1991 Christina Noble and her Foundation have established over 170 projects/programmes in Vietnam and Mongolia. (cncf.org)
  • The Nobel Foundation reacted promptly, saying it presumes the academy "will now put all its efforts into the task of restoring its credibility as a prize-awarding institution. (apnews.com)
  • We also assume that all members of the Academy realize that both its extensive reform efforts and its future organizational structure must be characterized by greater openness toward the outside world," Carl-Henrik Heldin, the chairman of the Nobel Foundation Board, said in a separate statement. (apnews.com)
  • The Genesis Prize Foundation said the war in Ukraine required a change in the approach it has taken since creating the prize, known by some as the "Jewish Nobel," a decade ago. (heritagefl.com)
  • Nobel Prize® is a registered trademark of the Nobel Foundation. (nobelprize.org)
  • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Following weeks of internal bickering, sex-abuse allegations and a financial investigation by police, the body that hands out the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature announced Friday that no prize will be awarded this year. (apnews.com)
  • The first 'Nobel' in Economics awarded in 1969 was shared by Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch and Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen for their work in econometrics. (livemint.com)
  • The Medicine Prize opens the Nobel season on Monday, with research into cancer-fighting T-cell therapy, the human microbiome and narcolepsy making buzz. (latintimes.com)
  • Although the winner is notoriously difficult to predict, bookies and bloggers inevitably weigh in with their own odds every year, leading up to the October announcement. (thediplomat.com)
  • In 2012, it was reduced from 10 million kronor to 8 million kronor as a broad-based program to strengthen the Nobel Foundation's finances was initiated. (keloland.com)
  • B. Dalton store sales were $36 million for the quarter and $102 million for the full year. (authorlink.com)
  • That's the reason eyebrows were raised in Europe - where more countries depend on nuclear energy than anywhere else - when physicist Gérard Mourou mentioned in his wide-ranging Nobel acceptance speech that lasers could cut the lifespan of nuclear waste from "a million years to 30 minutes," as he put it in a followup interview with The Conversation . (bigthink.com)
  • The lifespan of nuclear waste is fundamentally changed, and we could cut this from a million years to 30 minutes! (bigthink.com)
  • Over a four-year span, the company lost more than $20 million. (ibj.com)
  • Through the first nine months of 2006, Noble Roman's earned $1.33 million on revenue of $6.98 million. (ibj.com)
  • In the same period a year earlier, it earned $1.18 million on revenue of $6.32 million, excluding the impact of a one-time gain from settling a lawsuit. (ibj.com)
  • He said he'll exercise warrants to buy 1.3 million shares before they expire at the end of this year. (ibj.com)
  • And one in six Americans, or 48 million people, get sick from contaminated food every year. (cdc.gov)
  • In recent years, about 27 million pounds of non-noble metals have been consumed for catalysts annually. (cdc.gov)
  • Earlier today, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for their work on the role of institutions. (freakonomics.com)
  • Gérard Mourou has already won a Nobel for his work with fast laser pulses. (bigthink.com)
  • JTA) - A prize established to honor a single inspiring Jew with a lifetime of achievements has been awarded this year to a nameless group whose work is ongoing: Jewish activists in war-ravaged Ukraine. (heritagefl.com)
  • The French virologist Luc Montagnier, PhD, who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in isolating the human immunodeficiency virus, has died at age 89, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported today. (medscape.com)
  • Montagnier and colleague Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, PhD, shared the Nobel for their work at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. (medscape.com)
  • Fifty years after Jan Tinbergen's Nobel Prize, there are still tangible memories of Rotterdam's most famous professor everywhere on campus. (erasmusmagazine.nl)
  • Almost a year ago Tommy Andersson, Professor in Economics at LUSEM, was broadcasted to and watched by hundreds of millions of people. (lu.se)
  • This year we're doing it because we've had a very, very unusual situation, with conflicts in the academy and a weakened academy in terms of the number of members," Olsson told Sweden's TT news agency. (apnews.com)
  • For years, Novaya Gazeta has been one of the few national news publications in Russia to report critically on Russian President Vladimir Putin, conducting in-depth and dangerous investigations into the regime's alleged human rights abuses and corruption. (go.com)
  • Drs. Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó are trailblazers in mRNA technology that 15 years later became the answer to a global pandemic, saving countless lives," says Karen Antman, dean of the Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and provost of the BU Medical Campus. (bu.edu)
  • After finding a medicine that worked for him, Zayan spent years learning to overcome the medicine's effect on his mood and relationships. (cdc.gov)
  • While 15 years may seem a long time, when you're dealing with the half-life of nuclear waste, it's a blink of an eye. (bigthink.com)
  • None of them have a good plan for nuclear waste, other than storing it somewhere in hopes of an eventual solution or thousands of trouble-fee years during which it stays put and doesn't escape into water supplies or the air. (bigthink.com)
  • Nuclear energy is maybe the best candidate for the future," he told the Nobel audience, "but we are still left with a lot of dangerous junk. (bigthink.com)
  • This is the category for the Nobel Prize , a group of international awards awarded annually in recognition of academic, cultural and/or scientific advances. (wikinews.org)
  • Trudy Ring, The Advocate 's copy chief, honors groundbreaking lesbian politician Elaine Noble. (advocate.com)
  • The two were honored last year for "their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. (wtrf.com)
  • Like last year, he is again being put forward as the most likely to receive the prize by Ladbrokes, a British bookmaker , which is giving him 3-1 odds. (thediplomat.com)
  • Last year Murakami was at the head of the predicted pack, although Chinese author Mo Yan won. (thediplomat.com)
  • Last year devoted "Harukists" around the world were left disappointed. (thediplomat.com)
  • Last year, the prize was shared by Russian human rights group Memorial, Ukraine's Center for Civil Liberties and jailed Belarusian rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, all three representing the nations at the centre of the war in Ukraine which they oppose. (latintimes.com)
  • Last year, Japanese-born British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro won the prize. (apnews.com)
  • In the last year, there has been a snowballing effect. (ibj.com)
  • A 60-day public comment period was held for the draft document last year. (cdc.gov)