Nobel laureates

Meeting with visiting Nobel laureate Aziz Sancar, Sooronbay Jeenbekov said: “Positioning yourself as a representative of Turkic-speaking peoples makes a great contribution to the development of relations between Turkic-speaking states. We are proud of you.” Sancar thanked the president for his warm ...

Nobel Laureate and Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Wolfgang Ketterle, will present "The Coolest Use of Light – How to Make and Study the Coldest Matter in the Universe." He will explain the many important properties and applications of light, and how light exerts forces on ...

Growing up, Joseph Stiglitz bore witness to America's economic future. The decline of the once-mighty industrial heartland. The hollowing-out of Rust Belt communities. The decimation of the middle class. The chasm not just between rich and poor, but the rich and the rest. The Nobel laureate in economics, ...

Extended members of Sir W. Arthur Lewis' family attend the reception April 18 in Robertson Hall at Princeton to commemorate his legacy and the renaming of the building's main auditorium in his honor. Lewis served on Princeton's faculty from 1963 to 1983 and was the University's first black full professor.

Last year, Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature, highlighting his works The Remains of The Day and Never Let Me Go, the latter dealing with the ethics of clone lives and autonomy. He became the 114th recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, joining such writers as T.S Eliot, ...

Bitcoin craze is more psychological than economic: Nobel laureate. 9:45 AM ET Fri, 13 April 2018. Bitcoin buying behavior is best explained by psychology than economics, says Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller. Watch CNBC Live TV ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan on March 29, her first trip to her home country since she was shot in the head by Taliban militants in 2012 for advocating for girls' education. Yousafzai, who is now a university student in England, spoke emotionally about her return in an ...

Last year, Ladbrokes placed his odds at winning the Nobel Prize for Literature at 50 to 1 — better than Cormac McCarthy, Salman Rushdie and Elena Ferrante. Murnane's books are strange and wonderful and nearly impossible to describe in a sentence or two. After his third novel, “The Plains,” a fable-like ...

A chance encounter between a Nobel Laureate and a precocious nine-year-old girl has led to a new work of creative nonfiction designed to inspire young scientists to win their own Nobel Prize. Nobel Prize winner Professor Barry Marshall, from The University of Western Australia, has written an adventure ...

Mahfouz was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature, the only Arab writer to have won the award. Shortly after winning the prize Mahfouz was quoted as saying: “The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer and recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, speaks during the presentation of his book "La llamada de la tribu" ... The Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa said that journalist murders in Mexico are partly the fault of journalists for reporting on things ...

The James Webb Space Telescope as it will appear in orbit. The telescope will be launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in October 2018. JWST will be the premier observatory of the next decade, serving thousands of astronomers worldwide and will study every phase in the history of the ...

Nobel laureate Art McDonald poses with the late Stephen Hawking at SNOLAB in 2012. Hawking passed away March 14 at the age of 76. (Supplied). The man who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics for the groundbreaking research he conducted at Sudbury Neutrino Observatory said he considered the ...

In 1987 Paul W. Anderson, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, proposed that high-temperature superconductivity, or loss of electrical resistance, is related to an exotic quantum state now known as quantum spin liquid. Magnetic materials are made up of very tiny magnets, which can be as small as individual ...

In 2010, Ei-ichi Negishi, a professor of organic chemistry at Purdue University, was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry, the top honor for a lifetime of scientific work. The prize was awarded to Negishi for his research on “palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis” — a process known as ...

On 6 March, Google is celebrating the 91st birthday of Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was a writer and a journalist. He is known for his works such as A Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera among others. Google Doodle celebrates 91st birth anniversary of Gabriel Garcia ...

NEW DELHI: The refugee crisis has exacerbated human trafficking and modern slavery with global action needed to tackle the criminal gangs now selling people as well as firearms and drugs, Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Monday. Ahead of a summit of global leaders and Nobel laureates in ...

University of Alberta's only Nobel laureate remembered ... The University of Alberta is mourning physicist Richard Taylor, an alumnus who won a Nobel Prize for groundbreaking research that proved the existence of subatomic particles called quarks for the first time. "In physics, it's one of the biggest results ...

Following cases of alleged human rights violations in Turkey, 38 Nobel laureates across the world including Nigeria's Professor Wole Soyinka, have written ... The Nobel laureates, in the letter, are also asking for the abrogation of the state of emergency and full freedom of speech and expression in Turkey.

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh: Three Nobel Peace Prize winners Monday (Feb 26) urged fellow laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to speak out about violence against the Rohingya minority, warning she otherwise risks prosecution for "genocide". The trio - Tawakkol Karman, Shirin Ebadi and Mairead Maguire ...

Haldane shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics with researchers David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz. He was honoured for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. Born in London in 1951 to a British army doctor and a Slovenian mother, Haldane ...

Nobel Laureates Tell Myanmar's Civil Leader: 'Wake Up Or Face Prosecution' ... Three Nobel Peace Prize winners sent a stark message to fellow laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday: Bring an immediate end to the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state, or face prosecution.

Fellow Nobel Peace Laureates Blame Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi for Rohingya 'Genocide' .... Ebadi, who was Iran's first female judge and the 2003 Nobel laureate, blasted her native country and other Middle Eastern nations for not doing enough for the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group long persecuted ...