Panel To Announce 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Awardee to Get Gold Medal and $1.1 Million
4 years, 2 months ago

Panel To Announce 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Awardee to Get Gold Medal and $1.1 Million

News 18  

STOCKHOLM: Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for developing a way of editing genes likened to molecular scissors that offer the promise of one day curing inherited diseases. There is enormous power in this genetic tool, which affects us all, said Claes Gustafsson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. My greatest hope is that its used for good, to uncover new mysteries in biology and to benefit humankind, said Doudna, who is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley and is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports APs Health and Science Department. The prestigious award comes with a gold medal and prize money of 10 million kronor, courtesy of a bequest left more than a century ago by the prizes creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.

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The Shifting Sands of Science: How the Nobel Prize Debate Reflects a Changing World
2 months, 1 week ago

The Shifting Sands of Science: How the Nobel Prize Debate Reflects a Changing World

Hindustan Times  

The Nobel Prize debate continues to rage on, with this year's awards highlighting the challenges and complexities of defining what constitutes a scientific discipline. While the prestigious awards do recognize major discoveries, the vast majority of researchers who dedicate their lives to cutting-edge scientific research will never hold a Nobel. Anirban Mahapatra explores the cultural and historical significance of the …

Nobels Prizes 2024
2 months, 1 week ago

Nobels Prizes 2024

ABC  

Robyn Williams: First though, those Nobels, also this week. Robyn Williams: Barry Marshall on the late Professor Robin Warren, who died in July in Perth, both Nobel Prize winners, supreme scientists. Jacinta Bowler: Long before ChatGPT entered the lexicon, Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield were playing around with getting machines to think like humans. Jacinta Bowler: John Hopfield's contribution was …

Nobel Prize In Medicine Honors American Duo For Their Discovery Of MicroRNA
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Nobel Prize In Medicine Honors American Duo For Their Discovery Of MicroRNA

Huff Post  

This combo of pictures released by Mass General and UMass show American molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun, left, and UMass Chair in Natural Sciences and professor of molecular medicine, Victor Ambros. Joshua Touster and UMass via AP STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, …

Covering the Nobel Prizes
1 year, 1 month ago

Covering the Nobel Prizes

NPR  

Covering the Nobel Prizes And the contrast with other events Enlarge this image Carlos Carmonamedina for NPR Public Editor Carlos Carmonamedina for NPR Public Editor Covering the science categories of the Nobel Prizes is challenging, even for a news organization with a science team, like NPR. Why are the science Nobel prizes less worthy of coverage than equivalent entertainment/sporting events? …

Nobel chemistry winners possibly leaked: Sweden media
1 year, 2 months ago

Nobel chemistry winners possibly leaked: Sweden media

Deccan Chronicle  

STOCKHOLM: Swedish media outlets on Wednesday published what they reported were the seemingly leaked names of this year's Nobel chemistry prize recipients, hours before the laureates were to be announced. Sweden's paper of reference, Dagens Nyheter, and public broadcasters Swedish Television and Swedish Radio reported receiving a press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that named three US-based …

Winners of Nobel Prize in chemistry may have been announced early: Swedish media
1 year, 2 months ago

Winners of Nobel Prize in chemistry may have been announced early: Swedish media

Hindustan Times  

Swedish media say the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences may have announced the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry prematurely. The press release said the prize went to three US-based scientists for the “discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.” However, the prize is set to be announced at 11:45am in Sweden. What is important to know is that …

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier win for study of electron dynamics
1 year, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier win for study of electron dynamics

Hindustan Times  

Nobel Prize 2023 in Physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.” They were acknowledged for their exploration of the world of electrons within atoms and molecules. Nobel Prize 2023 in Physics won by Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and …

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Anne L’Huillier win Nobel Prize for physics
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Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Anne L’Huillier win Nobel Prize for physics

Al Jazeera  

The top award in physics goes to three scientists for ‘experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light’. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier have won the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”, the award-giving body says. Agostini of The Ohio State University …

3 scientists win Nobel Prize in physics for glimpsing electrons during split seconds
1 year, 2 months ago

3 scientists win Nobel Prize in physics for glimpsing electrons during split seconds

LA Times  

The winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics, from left: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier. “Once you can control and understand electrons, you have taken a very big step forward.” The three honorees’ experiments “have given humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules,” according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, …

The Nobel Prize has been awarded to women 62 times. Katalin Karikó becomes the 13th to win in Medicine
1 year, 2 months ago

The Nobel Prize has been awarded to women 62 times. Katalin Karikó becomes the 13th to win in Medicine

The Hindu  

Hungarian-American biochemist Katalin Karikó has become the newest Laureate to join the ranks of the numbered women who have won arguably the most prestigious award. The 68-year-old biochemist and her colleague Drew Weissman were honoured with the Prize for “discoveries concerning nucleoside base modification that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.” From 1901 to 2023, the Nobel …

Nobel awards becoming more diverse, says Royal Academy
2 years, 2 months ago

Nobel awards becoming more diverse, says Royal Academy

Hindustan Times  

Only one woman won a Nobel science prize this year and all 2022 laureates hail from the United States or Europe, but a prize official said Monday the prestigious awards were becoming more diverse. Hans Ellegren, the secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that awards the Nobel prizes for chemistry, physics and economics, said he was "rather …

French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature
2 years, 2 months ago

French writer Annie Ernaux awarded Nobel Prize in literature

Deccan Chronicle  

STOCKHOLM: This year's Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to French author Annie Ernaux. Ernaux, 82, was cited for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory,” the Nobel committee said. A week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off Monday with the award in medicine honouring a scientist who …

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux
2 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux

India TV News  

This year’s Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to French author Annie Ernaux. A week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off Monday with the award in medicine honoring a scientist who unlocked the secrets of Neanderthal DNA. The prize for chemistry was awarded Wednesday to three scientists who developed ways of connecting molecules that can be used to design …

Nobel Prize 2022: 3 chemists who made molecules 'click' awarded
2 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize 2022: 3 chemists who made molecules 'click' awarded

India TV News  

Three scientists from the United States and Denmark were jointly awarded this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to design better medicines. Sharpless, who previously won a Nobel Prize in 2001 and is now the fifth person to receive the award twice, first proposed the idea for connecting molecules …

Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, Barry Sharpless win 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2 years, 2 months ago

Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, Barry Sharpless win 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

India Today  

Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry. While Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal laid the foundation for a functional form of chemistry click chemistry in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently. WATCH NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY ANNOUNCEMENT The Chemistry Nobel is …

Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, Barry Sharpless get Nobel chemistry prize
2 years, 2 months ago

Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, Barry Sharpless get Nobel chemistry prize

Hindustan Times  

Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless on Wednesday at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm for click and bioorthogonal chemistry. Nobel Prize In Chemistry 2022: A gold Nobel Prize medal is seen. In 2021, the Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded to scientists Benjamin List and David W.C. …

2 Californians among trio who share Nobel Prize in chemistry for devising ‘molecular Lego’
2 years, 2 months ago

2 Californians among trio who share Nobel Prize in chemistry for devising ‘molecular Lego’

LA Times  

Carolyn R. Bertozzi, from left, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on a novel way to build molecules. Bertozzi, 55, “took click chemistry to a new level,” the Nobel panel said, by finding a way to make the process work inside living organisms without disrupting them. “I’m still not entirely …

Trio of scientists win Nobel Prize for Chemistry
2 years, 2 months ago

Trio of scientists win Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Al Jazeera  

Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless, together with Denmark’s Morten Meldal, are honoured for laying the foundation for a more functional form of chemistry. Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering reactions that let molecular building blocks snap together to efficiently create new desired compounds. The third of the …

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K Barry Sharpless
2 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K Barry Sharpless

ABC  

Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K Barry Sharpless have been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering reactions that let molecules snap together to create desired compounds and that offer insight into cell biology. Key points: Click chemistry has been described as a way to build and link complex structures as if they were pieces of Lego …

Nobel prize in medicine awarded for research on evolution
2 years, 2 months ago

Nobel prize in medicine awarded for research on evolution

Deccan Chronicle  

STOCKHOLM: Swedish scientist Svante Paabo won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for his discoveries on human evolution that provided key insights into our immune system and what makes us unique compared with our extinct cousins, the award's panel said. This included the time when modern humans and Neanderthals diverged as a species, determined to be around 800,000 years …

Nobel Prize 2022 for Medicine Awarded to Sweden's Svante Pääbo
2 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize 2022 for Medicine Awarded to Sweden's Svante Pääbo

News 18  

Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for ‘his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution’, which means his work helped better understand how we, human beings, have evolved. The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian in 2021 for their discoveries into how the human …

Nobel season is here: 5 things to know about the prizes
2 years, 2 months ago

Nobel season is here: 5 things to know about the prizes

India TV News  

Nobel Prize 2022: The beginning of October means Nobel Prize season. The economics award - officially known as the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - wasn't created by Nobel, but by Sweden's central bank in 1968. Although the nominations are kept secret for 50 years, those who submit them sometimes announce their suggestions …

Nobel Prizes 2021
3 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prizes 2021

The Hindu  

This year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine — awarded to the researchers, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian from the University of California, San Francisco and Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, respectively — recognises their seminal work in identifying the gene and understanding the mechanism through which our body perceives temperature and pressure. The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is …

2021 Nobel Prize: Meet the winners of physics, chemistry, medicine and their life-changing discoveries
3 years, 2 months ago

2021 Nobel Prize: Meet the winners of physics, chemistry, medicine and their life-changing discoveries

India Today  

October marks an important month in the academic calendar when intellectuals, academicians, researchers await the announcement of the coveted Nobel Prize. While we await the announcement of the name of the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in literature, the winners of the science category have all been revealed. NOBEL IN MEDICINE FOR SOLVING WHY WE FEEL HEAT, COLD, TOUCH The announcement …

Nobel Prize for Literature 2021: What time is the award being announced today?
3 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize for Literature 2021: What time is the award being announced today?

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The 2021 Nobel Prize for literature is being announced today. Last …

Nobel Prize in chemistry honours pair for new way to make molecules
3 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize in chemistry honours pair for new way to make molecules

Deccan Chronicle  

Stockholm: The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David WC MacMillan of Princeton University. The Nobel panel said List and MacMillan in 2000 independently developed a new way of catalysis. On Monday, the Nobel Committee awarded the prize in physiology or medicine to Americans David Julius …

Nobel Prize for Physics 2021 Awarded to 3 Scientists from Japan, Germany, Italy for Climate Discoveries
3 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize for Physics 2021 Awarded to 3 Scientists from Japan, Germany, Italy for Climate Discoveries

News 18  

The Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to scientists from Japan, Germany and Italy. Syukuro Manabe, 90, and Klaus Hasselmann, 89, were cited for their work in “the physical modeling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming”. The second half of the prize was awarded to Giorgio Parisi, 73, for “the discovery of the interplay of …

Explaining the science behind this year’s Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Physics | The Hindu In Focus podcast
4 years, 2 months ago

Explaining the science behind this year’s Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Physics | The Hindu In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

In this second part of a two-episode series on the Nobel Prizes, we go into the Chemistry and Physics 2020 awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, for discovering one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. And for physics, British mathematician-physicist Roger Penrose received half of this year’s prize “for the discovery that black hole formation is …

Gene editing, the good first and then the worries
4 years, 2 months ago

Gene editing, the good first and then the worries

The Hindu  

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2020 which was announced on October 7, Wednesday, has two women scientists as its recipients. Emmanuelle Charpentier, a French microbiologist working at the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin, Germany, and Jennifer A. Doudna, a biochemist from the University of California, Berkeley, U.S. shared the honour “for the development of …

2 scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for gene-editing tool
4 years, 2 months ago

2 scientists win Nobel chemistry prize for gene-editing tool

Associated Press  

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in chemistry went to two researchers Wednesday for a gene-editing tool that has revolutionized science by providing a way to alter DNA, the code of life — technology already being used to try to cure a host of diseases and raise better crops and livestock. “My greatest hope is that it’s used for good, to …

Nobel Literature prize to be awarded after years of controversy and scandal
4 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Literature prize to be awarded after years of controversy and scandal

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Nobel Prize for Literature …

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to two women scientists for their work on genome editing
4 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to two women scientists for their work on genome editing

Firstpost  

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded Wednesday to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their 2012 work on CRISPR-Cas9, a method to edit DNA. “I am thrilled to see CRISPR-Cas getting the recognition we have all been waiting for, and seeing two women being recognized as Nobel Laureates.” CRISPR has also become one of the most controversial …

Nobel winning women hope to inspire a new generation of scientists
4 years, 2 months ago

Nobel winning women hope to inspire a new generation of scientists

Live Mint  

On hearing that they had been awarded a Nobel Chemistry Prize for their groundbreaking work on gene-editing Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier said they hoped it would inspire a new generation of women in science. "I absolutely agree that both Charpentier and Ghez will be role models for young women in Science because then it becomes more 'normal' to see …

2 Win Chemistry Nobel Prize for Developing Genome Editing Method
4 years, 2 months ago

2 Win Chemistry Nobel Prize for Developing Genome Editing Method

The Quint  

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was on Wednesday, 7 October, awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing”, one of gene technology’s sharpest tools – the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. This technology has had a revolutionary impact on the life sciences, is contributing to new cancer therapies and may make the …

Panel to announce 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry
4 years, 2 months ago

Panel to announce 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The 2020 Nobel Prize for …

Two women win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on CRISPR gene-editing system
4 years, 2 months ago

Two women win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on CRISPR gene-editing system

LA Times  

Emmanuelle Charpentier, left, and Jennifer A. Doudna, together won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Oct. 7, 2020, for their work on the CRISPR gene-editing tool. Two women from different continents who met at a cafe in Puerto Rico were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their pioneering work on CRISPR, a gene-editing tool that gives scientists the …

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for CRISPR genome editing to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
4 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for CRISPR genome editing to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna

CNN  

CNN — The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of a method for genome editing. Charpentier said at a Wednesday news conference that she hoped the win sent a “positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science, and to show them that …

Nobel Prize 2020 in Physics awarded to Penrose, Genzel and Ghez for findings in cosmology, black holes
4 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize 2020 in Physics awarded to Penrose, Genzel and Ghez for findings in cosmology, black holes

Firstpost  

Half the award was shared between two researchers that helped discover that every galaxy is home to a supermassive black hole. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Roger Penrose from Britain, Reinhard Genzel from Germany and Andrea Ghez from the US for making discoveries that have shaped our modern understanding of the universe and black holes. …

2020 Nobel: Three scientists share Prize in Physiology or Medicine
4 years, 2 months ago

2020 Nobel: Three scientists share Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Hindu  

Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Announcing the prize in Stockholm on Monday, the Nobel Committee noted that the trio’s work helped explain a major source of blood-borne hepatitis that couldn’t be explained by …

2020 Nobel season opens with medicine prize
4 years, 2 months ago

2020 Nobel season opens with medicine prize

Live Mint  

Breakthroughs in the field of health will be honoured Monday when the 2020 Nobel season kicks off with the medicine prize, as the world battles the worst pandemic in a century. - Swedish public radio SR and the country's biggest daily Dagens Nyheter both suggested Monday's medicine prize could go to French-born Australian Jacques Miller and Max Cooper of the …

Nobel Prize: How to win and why it’s so difficult to guess a winner
4 years, 2 months ago

Nobel Prize: How to win and why it’s so difficult to guess a winner

CNN  

CNN — The short listis secret, as are the nominators, and documents revealing the juicy details are sealed from public view for 50 years. Pandemic medicine Unlike the peace prize, which often raises some eyebrows, the science prizes tend to honor achievements that have withstood the test of time – last year’s prize in chemistry recognized research in the development …

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