Nobel Prize

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg participates in a youth climate change protest in front of the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, New York, US, on Aug. 30, 2019.

A Nobel for Sweden’s Greta Thunberg? A tough decision for the prize committee.

October 10, 2019

Greta Thunberg, one of few people whose nomination has become known before the awards ceremony, is the bookmakers’ favorite to win the prize Friday.

Books are shown in stacks, one of them is by Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.

What author would you pick for a Nobel Prize in literature this year?

October 5, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

portraits of the three winners of the nobel prize for physics

Physics Nobel for laser pioneers includes first woman in 55 years

October 2, 2018Science

Lessons from the Master

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Nobel-winning US astrophysicists bring us closer to the ‘birth of the universe’

October 3, 2017Science

Bob Dylan performs at The Hop Festival in Paddock Wood, Kent, on June 30, 2012.

US rock poet Bob Dylan wins Nobel Literature Prize

October 13, 2016Arts

The music legend, whose poetic lyrics have influenced generations of fans, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday — the first songwriter to win the award in a decision that stunned prize watchers.

Man with champagne clinks glasses with three other men

One of the six US immigrant Nobel winners is ‘totally speechless’ over the push to limit immigration

October 11, 2016Education

Sir J. Fraser Stoddart won a Nobel Prize in chemistry this year. Like the five others who won in the US, he is an immigrant.

French writer Patrick Modiano poses for journalists in Paris on October 9, 2014, after he was declared the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature.

And the Nobel Prize in Literature goes to — who?

October 9, 2014Books

The Nobel Committee awarded its prize for literature to French novelist Patrick Modiano, a man who’s been called a modern-day Proust. Yet his work is relatively unknown in the English-speaking world despite his success in France.

China and others boycott Nobel Peace Prize ceremony

June 16, 2014Arts, Culture & Media

18 countries have followed China’s lead in refusing to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony; what are their motivations? And how is all of this going over with the Nobel Prize committee?

The OPCW Inspection Team leaving for Syria on 30 September.

Nobel Prize shoves the small Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons into the spotlight

October 11, 2013Conflict & Justice

A very famous girl was passed over for the peace prize. Instead, the Nobel committee chose a very obscure UN group tasked with eliminating chemical weapons across the globe.