The Nobel Prize honours outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The first prizes were awarded in 1901. So far, 22 Nobel Prizes have been awarded ...

He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906, partly for showing that cathode rays in electrified gases were composed of ‘negative corpuscles’, soon to be known as electrons. Thomson was the son of ...

Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene". To celebrate the event, in this web ...

This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three US pharmacologists for their discovery that the unstable gas, nitric oxide (NO), is an essential regulator of vasodilation.

What’s hard to keep in mind, with all the hype that’s flying around, is that there’s no particular reason for either side in ...

The United Nations and its Secretary-General Kofi Annan have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world”. The United Nations and its ...

Alon-Beck's nomination, filed just before the Jan. 31 deadline, argued that Trump should win a Nobel based on his early work toward securing a peace deal in the Middle East.

OSLO: Over 300 people have been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, organisers said on Wednesday (Mar 5), with politicians saying they had put United States President Donald Trump forward ...

Sakharov was awarded the prize "for his struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union, for disarmament and cooperation between all nations", according to the Nobel committee citation. The process ...