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Byline: Jan Lundius STOCKHOLM / ROME, Oct 24 (IPS) - On October 11, the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee announced that this yearós Peace Prize is awarded to Ethiopiaós prime minister [...]

Byline: Rick Noack Ethio -pian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Nobel Peace Prize win on Friday honored a unique peacemaking effort, but it also fit a global pattern. Others were believed [...]

Jean Tirole won the Nobel in economics on Monday. When he woke up Tuesday, he said that he was still ''over the moon.'' He was so happy that he agreed [...]

Robert J. Shiller, a professor at Yale, learned on Monday that he had won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, along with Lars Peter Hansen and Eugene F. Fama [...]

Canadians or Canadian-based groups have won 21 Nobels: Sir Frederick Banting (Medicine, 1923) William Giauque* (Chemistry, 1949) Lester B. Pearson (Nobel Peace Prize, 1957) Charles B. Huggins (Medicine, 1966) Saul [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED William S. Knowles, who was 84 and in retirement when he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 for improving ways to manufacture drugs, including L-dopa for [...]

Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has no affinity for the authorities in Iran, who she fears would have her arrested or worse if [...]

BOSTON -- The October night before he learned he had won the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine, the biochemical researcher Jack W. Szostak says he slept like a log. ''I [...]

President Obama praised environmental activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, who died this weekend of cancer. In a statement Monday, Obama called Maathai a 'remarkable woman who devoted [...]

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who began a movement to reforest her country by paying poor women a few shillings to plant trees and who went on [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, a Venezuelan-born immunologist who received a Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work in exploring why diseases like multiple sclerosis affect some people but not others, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Willard S. Boyle, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for helping to develop a device that is at the heart of virtually every camcorder, digital camera [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED William N. Lipscomb Jr., a Harvard chemistry professor who won a Nobel Prize in 1976 for his research on the structure of molecules and on chemical bonding, died [...]

Byline: Michael Posner NIRMALA SRIVASTAVA, 87 Nirmala Srivastava, known as Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, was the recipient of the UN Peace Medal, a two-time nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize [...]

BEIJING -- The Confucius Peace Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize have an obvious theme in common: Both promote peace. The two prizes also share something else: Winners absent from [...]

Byline: Richard L. Fricker Apr 22, 1977 - Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa thinks that the United States has made serious mistakes by supporting dictatorships and multinational corporations at the [...]

Jose Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 for novels that combine surrealist experimentation and a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, died at his [...]

Byline: Sarah Boesveld THE LOOKAHEAD / June 8 - June 12 Sakena Yacoobi has devoted her life to educating women and children in her country through the Afghan Institute of [...]

Byline: PAUL KORING NOBEL PEACE PRIZE / OBAMA THE SURPRISE WINNER WASHINGTON -- Stunningly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, President Barack Obama said yesterday he was deeply humbled and regarded [...]

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE It was the Nobel Peace Prize heard around the world - if only for the noise of liberals cheering as if Donald Rumsfeld had been charged with [...]

Aage N. Bohr, a son of the Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist Niels Bohr who won a Nobel Prize in Physics of his own, died Tuesday. He was 87. The Niels […]

Byline: Donald Kirk Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Kim Dae-jung, South Korea's president from 1998 to 2003, who died Tuesday, dedicated his career to fighting dictatorial leaders and won [...]

Byline: AP Oslo -- Dr. Carleton Gajdusek was a Nobel Prize-winning medical researcher who studied brain diseases and infections that lie dormant for years before attacking the body. The American [...]

On Wednesday, if all goes as planned, Martin Chalfie will fly to Stockholm for a batch of celebrations leading up to a ceremony on Dec. 10. That is when he […]

Byline: AP San Diego, Calif. -- George Palade, who won a Nobel Prize in 1974 for his work isolating and identifying cell structure and helped to create leading cell biology [...]

Byline: Reuters News Agency MOSCOW -- Russian literary giant Alexander Solzhenitsyn opened the eyes of the world to the brutality of Stalin's labour camps with searing writings that brought him [...]

Dr. Arthur Kornberg, a biochemist whose Nobel Prize-winning discovery of how DNA is assembled helped ignite the biotechnology revolution, died on Friday in Stanford, Calif. He was 89 and worked […]

Kai Siegbahn, a Swedish physicist whose work in developing a novel technique using electrons to test the composition and purity of materials won a Nobel Prize in 1981, died on […]

I don't want to begrudge the Nobel Peace Prize won last week by the Grameen Bank and its founder, Muhammad Yunus. They deserve it. The Grameen Bank has done more […]

Dr. Archer Martin, a British biochemist who won a 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering one of the most widely used analytical techniques for separating and identifying the parts […]

Camilo Jose Cela, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature who was as well known in his native Spain for his sardonic humor and irascible personality as he was […]

Dr. Donald J. Cram, who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesizing molecules that mimicked some of the chemical reactions of life, died on Sunday at his home […]