Nobel Prize Archives

October 10, 2024 5:13 PM

South Korea’s Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel literature prize

South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life," the award-giving body said on Thursday. The prize is awarded by the Swedish...

April 10, 2024 1:03 PM

UK Nobel winning physicist Peter Higgs dies aged 94

Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a Nobel prize-winning discovery half a century later, has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh said on Tuesday (April 9). The di...

October 6, 2023 11:39 AM

‘Everything will be downhill from now’ says Fosse after Nobel win

Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse, who won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature on October 5 said the prize was the highest honour for an author and that everything would be "downhill from now on". "It doesn't get any higher. It is The prize," ...

October 4, 2023 9:39 AM

L’Huillier becomes fifth woman to secure a Nobel Prize in Physics, trio win for atom-imaging light pulses

Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier on October 3, were jointly awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for using pulses of light to study the behaviour of electrons. The prize-awarding academy said their studies had given hu...

October 3, 2023 6:13 PM

Nobel Prize awarded to Scientists for mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine breakthrough

Hungarian scientist Katalin Kariko and her U.S. colleague Drew Weissman have been honoured with the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their groundbreaking discoveries that paved the way for the development of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines...

October 3, 2023 5:23 PM

Pioneers of mRNA technology win medicine Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been announced and it has been awarded to those scientists who developed the mRNA technology that helped in developing mRNA covid vaccines. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were jointly awarded the priz...

September 16, 2023 3:26 PM

Nobel Prize cash reward increases, 2023 winners to get additional $1 million

In a significant move, the Nobel Foundation, responsible for overseeing the prestigious Nobel Prizes, has announced a raise in the monetary awards presented to this year's esteemed recipients. According to the statement released by the Foundation, th...