According to event organizers, Caucher Birkar, a Kurdish-Iranian refugee turned Cambridge University math professor, put his 14-karat gold medal in a briefcase and soon afterward realized it had been stolen.
Vaishnavi Vaidyanathan
Aug 02, 2018
The director of the Nobel Institute suspects that President Donald Trump's nomination may be a fake one.
Anushree Madappa
Feb 28, 2018
Researchers have made a breakthrough on the century-old photoelectric effect proposed by Einstein. New Spectroscopy methods reveal that electron emission is delayed by intra-atomic interactions.
Suraj Radhakrishnan
Sep 22, 2017
Music legend Bob Dylan’s memoir “Chronicles: Volume One” and “The Lyrics: 1961-2012,” a bound compilation, were two of the fastest sellers Thursday on Amazon.com.
Mary Pascaline
Oct 14, 2016
Bob Dylan, the first songwriter to win a Nobel prize in literature, makes no reference to his win during a concert in Las Vegas.
Jordianne Cornejo
Oct 14, 2016
Bob Dylan, an artist who has left an indelible mark on American music, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday.
Tim Marcin
Oct 13, 2016
The cell biologist is credited with the discovery of the genes responsible for autophagy — a fundamental process through which cells recycle components.
Avaneesh Pandey
Oct 03, 2016
Among the winners are Volkswagen for chemistry, a study asking liars about lying for psychology, and two men who spent time living as animals for biology.
Himanshu Goenka
Sep 23, 2016
The 69-year-old was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences for "his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare."
Suman Varandani
Oct 12, 2015
Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and Turkish-born Aziz Sancar won the award for work on mapping how cells repair damaged DNA.
Reuters
Oct 07, 2015
Experts say the Nobel prize for Dr. Tu Youyou breaks a psychological barrier, but systemic challenges remain.
Duncan Hewitt
Oct 06, 2015
The youngest ever Nobel prize winner opened a girls school for Syrian refugees in Lebanon on her 18th birthday.
Christopher Harress
Jul 12, 2015
The medal, which is one of only 10 Nobel Prizes ever to be auctioned, was placed at a minimum bid of $325,000.
Suman Varandani
May 29, 2015
"Satyarthi and Malala are precisely the people whom Alfred Nobel in his will calls champions of peace," the Nobel committee's chairman said.
Suman Varandani
Dec 10, 2014
A mathematician by training, Tirole, a Frenchman, focuses his work heavily on game theory and information theory.
Cristina Silva
Oct 13, 2014
The author of 30 books, mainly novels, was named as the 2014 award winner by the Swedish Academy on Thursday.
Cristina Silva
Oct 09, 2014
Winners in the other categories of the Nobel Prize, including, physics, chemistry, literature and peace, will be announced later in the week.
Sneha Shankar
Oct 06, 2014
The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize may come down to Pope Francis, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden or Malala Yousufzai.
Cristina Silva
Oct 03, 2014
The 2013 Nobel Prize announcement schedule has been announced, and there are front-runners for the Physics, Peace and Literature prizes.
Charles Poladian
Oct 05, 2013
Taiwan’s billionaire business mogul Samuel Lin has put up over $100 million of his personal fortune to establish a grant foundation that will award what are being referred to as the “Asian Nobel prizes.”
Ryan Villarreal
Jan 28, 2013
A "silly" study finds a connection between chocolate consumption and Nobel Prize winners.
Fionna Agomuoh
Oct 12, 2012
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2012 was awarded to Chinese author Mo Yan, who in his dozens of stories and novels uses magic realism to merge folk tales, China’s history and the contemporary, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday.
Amrutha Gayathri
Oct 11, 2012