Nobel Prize
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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded for work on coloured lightsThree scientists based in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their work on quantum dots - whose applications include electronics and medical imaging.ScienceOct 4
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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
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Ukraine war: Nobel Peace Prize winners denounce Russia’s invasionThe winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine shared their visions of a fairer world and denounced Russian President Putin's war in Ukraine.WorldDec 10, 2022
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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 chemistry goes to 3 scientists for ‘snapping molecules together’Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless were cited for their work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions.ScienceOct 5, 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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Swedish scientist awarded Nobel Prize in medicine for work on human evolutionSvante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries 'concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.'HealthOct 3, 2022
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Russian journalist sells Nobel Peace Prize for $103.5M to support Ukrainian childrenNobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov has auctioned off his prize and donated the accompanying $500,000 cash award to give Ukraine child refugees "a chance for a future."WorldJun 20, 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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