Nobel Prize
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Nobel Prize: Thomas Hardy lost to Tagore, Tarashankar to Neruda
As the Nobel Prize authorities recently declassified the list of nominees and nominators for the for the Nobel Prize of several years, a wealth of information tumbled out.
Five interesting facts about the Nobel prize
Since 1901, the Nobel prizes have been awarded to men, women and organisations for work that has led to great advances for mankind. Here are five interesting facts to know about the prizes and their creator.
POLITICAL SATIRE / And the Nobel Prize for Violence Goes to…
No, silly, there is no such prize for violence. That’s just a conversation starter. After all, what better way to invoke the mighty Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) than with a nod to violence?
Immigrant experience in focus: Abdulrazak Gurnah wins Nobel in Literature
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has just been announced as the recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents."
Pioneering Work in Evolutionary Science / Briton, 2 Americans win Nobel Chemistry Prize
US scientists Frances Arnold and George Smith and British researcher Gregory Winter yesterday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for applying the principles of evolution to develop enzymes used to make everything from biofuels to medicine.
Nobel Prize for Physics: Winners include first woman in 55 years
Three scientists yesterday won the Nobel Physics Prize, including the first woman in 55 years, for inventing optical lasers that have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in corrective eye surgery, the jury said.
2018 Nobel Literature Prize's fate to be announced Friday
The Swedish Academy is to announce on Friday whether or not it may postpone the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize, its administrative director says, after it plunged into a crisis over links to a man accused of sexual assault.
Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer: Experts
A team of international scientists says that Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda did not die of cancer or malnutrition, rejecting the official cause of death but not laying to rest one of the great mysteries of post-coup Chile.
Nobel laureate for Literature Alexievich: Exposing stark Soviet realities
Svetlana Alexievich, this year's Nobel laureate for literature, says her approach is to let "human voices speak for themselves".
Nobel Prize in literature: What to look out for
Will the prize awarding body choose to honor the occasion by picking a female winner? Will it break new ground by giving the prize to a journalist? Or will it rush to bestow the coveted prize on one of the many aging favorites?
DNA repair wins chemistry Nobel
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for discoveries in DNA repair.
Neutrino 'flavours' win physics Nobel Prize
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics has been won by Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald, for discovering how neutrinos switch between different "flavours".
Nobel winner Irwin Rose dies
Irwin Rose, a biochemist who shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a way that cells destroy unwanted proteins the basis for developing new cancer therapies has died.
'Beautiful Mind' mathematician killed
US mathematician John Nash, whose life story was turned into the Oscar-winning film A Beautiful Mind, dies in a car crash
Nobel Prize winner Guenter Grass dies
German novelist Guenter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of "The Tin Drum", an epic treatment of the Nazi era, dies at the age of 87.
Swedish Nobel winning poet Tomas Transtroemer dies
Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer, who won the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 83, his publishing house Bonniers says
