Nobel Prize Winners
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3 scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for breakthrough work on proteinsDavid Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their breakthrough work predicting and designing the structure of proteins.WorldOct 9, 2024
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Nobel Prize in physics goes to trio for opening door to ‘world of electrons’Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for creating incredibly short pulses of light that can capture processes inside atoms and molecules.WorldOct 3, 2023
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Three U.S. economists awarded Nobel Prize for work on financial crisesFormer Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke along with Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig won the 2022 Nobel Economics Prize "for research on banks and financial crises."WorldOct 10, 2022
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French writer Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize in literatureAnnie Ernaux describes her style as “flat writing," a very objective view of the events she is describing, unshaped by florid description or overwhelming emotions.WorldOct 6, 2022
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Nobel Prize in physics awarded to 3 scientists for work on quantum scienceAlain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger were cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for 'pioneering quantum information science.'ScienceOct 4, 2022
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Canadian-born David Card named as Nobel prize winner in economicsCanada-born Card currently works at the University of California, Berkeley; Angrist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Dutch-born Imbens at Stanford University.CanadaOct 11, 2021
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Nobel Prize in physics awarded to 3 scientists for black hole researchBriton Roger Penrose, German Reinhard Genzel and American Andrea Ghez explained to the world these dead ends of the cosmos that devour light and even time.ScienceOct 6, 2020
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University of Alberta scientist part of trio awarded Nobel Prize for hepatitis C discoveryThe researchers were awarded for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus.WorldOct 5, 2020
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U of T researchers contribute to work done by Nobel Physics Prize winnersOntario researchers are part of the large team that contributed to the work done by three U.S.-based professors who were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize for their detection of gravitational waves, a theory first put forward by Albert Einstein more than 100 years ago.CanadaOct 3, 2017
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