The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world. The current president should not be considered for the ...

T he Nobel prizes may be one of the most famous and prestigious awards in the world—but who was the man behind them? As I explain in my lectures about Alfred Nobel, the inventor and entrepreneur ...

The coveted Nobel Prizes are announced annually, and the most recent installment is here. This year's U.S. winners include Harvard professor Claudia Goldin, two University of Pennsylvania ...

from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel. The laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death.

Alfred Nobel, the reclusive inventor of dynamite ... wealth--garnered from his groundbreaking 1866 invention--to the founding of several international prizes. The prizes were intended to honor those ...

Since 1901, the Nobel Prizes have been awarded to individuals and organisations for work leading to great advances for humanity, in line with the wishes of inventor Alfred Nobel. Ahead of the ...

The Nobel prizes were established in 1901 to acknowledge achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and in fostering peace. Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of ...

This year's Nobel Prize award ceremony will take place on 10th December in Stockholm, Sweden, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, who founded the competition in 1901. Last year's Nobel ...

Nobel prizes for applied research provide recognition for innovations with profound impact, fully in tune with the intentions of Alfred Nobel. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics honours discoveries ...

Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. The start of October is when the Nobel committees get together in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the yearly ...

Bawendi made his first quantum dot breakthrough during his postdoctoral years working under Louis Brus, one of the ...