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Nobel Prize for Literature goes to French author Annie Ernaux
Ernaux consistently and from different angles, examines a life marked by strong disparities...Read MoreOct 6, 2022 731 0 -
Immigrants win more and more Nobel prizes for the Untied States
Another example shows why immigrants are critical to US innovation ...Read MoreOct 12, 2021 740 0 -
Abdulrazak Gurnah, the storyteller of refugees, wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Arabic, Persian poetry and the Quran’s surahs were early wellspring for him...Read MoreOct 7, 2021 956 0 -
American Richard Thaler wins Nobel Prize for making economics more human
American professor Richard H. Thaler, who has incorporated psychologically realistic assumptions into analyses of economic decision-making, has won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work – hailed as making economics more human. “By exploring...Oct 10, 2017 1358 0 -
A landmark discovery of biological clock’s working earns three Americans Nobel Prize
Three Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for their landmark discovery of molecular gene that controls the biological clock, the rhythm that keeps human bodies and minds going. Jeffrey C. Hall,...Oct 3, 2017 1436 0 -
Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Led the struggle for Iranian women's rights even during incarceration...Read MoreOct 7, 2023 275 0 -
Microfinance founder nominated for Nobel Peace Award
Amjad Saqib has pioneered interest-free microfinance ...Read MoreApr 25, 2022 414 0 -
New study illustrates the importance of U.S.-Immigrant Nobel connection
George Mason University Life from Fairfax, Virginia /Wikimedia Commons As a resounding answer to the anti-immigrant rhetoric in 2016, the United States got the news that six of the seven American Nobel Prize winners that year...Dec 17, 2018 1071 0 -
Pakistan names QA University’s Physics Department after Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam
Photo by Molendijk, Bart via Wikimedia Commons Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved the renaming of Quaid-e-Azam University’s Physics Department as Professor Abdus Salam Center for Physics, taking a step toward recognition of the long-forgotten scientist....Dec 5, 2016 1031 0 -
All six 2016 American Nobel Laureates are immigrants
How critically immigrants contribute to United States’ scientific and technological superiority over other countries was evident this week after it emerged that all six American recipients of 2016 Nobel Prizes announced so far are immigrants. The...Oct 11, 2016 2953 0
