Nobel Prize

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Peace Prize Winner on Call: 'I Certainly Do Not Deserve This'

Nobel award recognized Maria Corina Machado's fight for democracy in Venezuela

(Newser) - Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado learned early Friday that she'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in an emotional phone call, captured on video , from Kristian Berg Harpviken of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. "Oh my God," Machado told Harpviken, per CBS News . "I am...

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Has Been in Hiding All Year

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado praised as 'key unifying figure'

(Newser) - This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner , Venezuelan opposition activist Maria Corina Machado is a "key, unifying figure in a political opposition that was once deeply divided—an opposition that found common ground in the demand for free elections and representative government," Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of...

Ahead of Nobel Peace Prize, Trump Dominates the Chatter
Trump's Push for a Nobel
Comes to a Head on Friday
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Oct 9, 2025 11:57 AM CDT

Trump's Push for a Nobel Comes to a Head on Friday

Israelis, Palestinians praise him, though panel's selection came before peace deal

(Newser) - The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, and the big question is whether it will go to President Trump. The president and the White House have made no secret of his desire to win it, with repeated references to his role in ending conflicts...

Hungarian Writer Wins the Nobel in Literature

Swedish Academy cites 'compelling and visionary oeuvre' of László Krasznahorkai

(Newser) - Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in remarkably long and entertaining sentences, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for his "compelling and visionary oeuvre." Several works including his debut, Satantango, and The Melancholy of Resistance were turned into films by Hungarian...

Chemistry Nobel Winners' Work Has 'Enormous Potential'

Prize honors the development of metal-organic frameworks, which can capture carbon dioxide

(Newser) - Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi share the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work in the development of metal-organic frameworks, per the AP . Hans Ellegren, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announced the chemistry prize in Stockholm on Wednesday. It was the third prize announced...

Scientist Who Just Won Physics Nobel: 'Surprise of My Life'

John Clarke joins Michel Devoret, John Martinis in taking home prize for work in quantum mechanics

(Newser) - More Nobel winners were announced on Tuesday, this time for physics. John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis won for research into quantum mechanical tunneling. Clarke conducted his research at the University of California-Berkeley; Martinis at UC-Santa Barbara; and Devoret also at UC-Santa Barbara, as well as Yale....

Nobel in Medicine Honors Immune System Research

Trio credited with breakthroughs in peripheral immune tolerance

(Newser) - Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance, per the AP . Brunkow is a senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. Ramsdell is a scientific adviser for Sonoma Biotherapeutics in San...

Netanyahu Nominating Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

And more from the leaders' latest meeting in DC

(Newser) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Trump that he was nominating the US leader for a Nobel Peace Prize as the two took a victory lap on Monday after their recent joint strikes on Iran 's nuclear facilities, with both hailing the 12-day war as an unmitigated success,...

Changing Where You Live May Kickstart Your Creativity

A new study says moving every few years is very good for scientists and creatives

(Newser) - Feeling uninspired? Start packing. The solution may just be somewhere else. As Ohio State News reports, a new study in the International Economic Review says Nobel Award-winning scientists who moved more frequently or worked in multiple locations began their prize-winning research significantly earlier than those who stayed in one place....

Economics Nobel Trio Found Inclusive Countries Prosper

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson take home top economics prize

(Newser) - The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for research into differences in prosperity between nations. The three economists "have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country's prosperity," the Nobel Committee of the Royal...

'Intense Poetic Prose' Just Won Her the Literature Nobel

South Korean author Han Kang takes home top writing prize

(Newser) - The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel Committee called "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." Han, 53, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for The Vegetarian, an...

Chemistry Nobel Recognizes 'Spectacular Proteins'

Scientists David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper have won this year's coveted award

(Newser) - The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to scientists David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper for their work with proteins. Baker works at the University of Washington in Seattle, while Hassabis and Jumper both work at Google DeepMind in London, per the AP . Baker designed a new protein...

2 Win Physics Nobel for Artificial Intelligence Work

John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton win for groundbreaking work Hinton recently warned about

(Newser) - John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of artificial intelligence. "Although computers cannot think, machines can now mimic functions such as memory and learning. This year's laureates in physics have helped make...

Penn Gave Nobel-Winner Ultimatum: Leave, or Take Pay Cut

Katalin Kariko didn't leave, keeping up her dogged research that led to COVID vaccines

(Newser) - Hungarian researcher Katalin Kariko looks pretty good on paper these days: She co-pioneered mRNA research at the University of Pennsylvania that led to COVID vaccines that helped save millions of lives worldwide during the pandemic; as of last week she has a Nobel for her trouble ; and, just as icing...

She Becomes the 3rd Woman to Win Economics Nobel

Harvard's Claudia Goldin is awarded for her work on women in the labor market

(Newser) - The Nobel economics prize has been awarded to Claudia Goldin, a professor at Harvard University, for what Nobel officials described as "groundbreaking research" in her work on women in the labor market. Goldin is only the third woman to win the prize, which was announced by Hans Ellegren, secretary-general...

Winner of Nobel Lit Prize: I've 'Cautiously' Prepped for This

Norwegian author Jon Fosse's works 'give voice to the unsayable'

(Newser) - Jon Fosse, a master of spare Nordic writing in a sprawling body of work ranging from plays to novels and children's books, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that "give voice to the unsayable." Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Literature,...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Winners Revealed in Rare Leak

Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, Alexei Ekimov honored for their work on quantum dots

(Newser) - Two American and one Russian scientist have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots—after receiving an accidental early heads-up. Moungi Bawendi of MIT, Louis Brus of Columbia University, and Alexei Ekimov of Nanocrystals Technology Inc., were honored for their work with the tiny...

Winning a Nobel Isn't Necessarily Good News
Winning a Nobel Isn't
Necessarily Good News
new study
Oct 2, 2023 11:05 AM CDT

Winning a Nobel Isn't Necessarily Good News

Study suggests that scientists who get one might then have a reduced impact on their field

(Newser) - Nobel season has begun, with the award for medicine having been doled out Monday morning. Winners get $1 million and serious bragging rights should they be so inclined. You might also think the prize translates into the winning scientists going on to have huge impacts in their field, but a...

Nobel Goes to Pair Who Worked on COVID Vaccines

Work of Katalin Karikó, Drew Weissman helped fight 'one of the greatest threats to human health'

(Newser) - Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. As the AP reports, the award was given to Katalin Karikó, a professor at Sagan's University in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania,...

Nobel Team Rescinds Invite to 3 Nations

Invites to Russia, Belarus, Iran withdrawn after Swedish lawmakers said they'd boycott awards

(Newser) - The Nobel Foundation on Saturday retracted its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus, and Iran to attend this year's Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the controversial decision "provoked strong reactions." Several Swedish lawmakers said Friday they would boycott this year's Nobel Prize award ceremonies in the...

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