Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 is awarded to Jon Fosseon October 5. The Norwegian author was announced as a winner of the prestigious award “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”The news was announced…

Three scientists based in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their work on quantum dots – tiny particles just a few atoms in diameter that can release very bright colored light and whose applications in every day…

PRAGUE: Czech-born novelist Milan Kundera, who satirised totalitarian regimes and mixed dark irony with philosophical musings to explore the human condition, has died, a library he worked with said on Wednesday. He was 94.The author of "The…

John B Goodenough, the scientist who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his crucial role in developing the revolutionary lithium-ion battery, the rechargeable powerpack that is ubiquitous in today's wireless electronic devices…

Last Updated: April 14, 2023, 03:26 ISTPeople line up to purchase the fresh copies of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami's new novella The City and Its Uncertain Walls, which is the writer's new book in six years, at a book store in Shinjuku…

Toni Morrison, who is the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature, is honored by the United States Postal Service (USPS) with her ‘own forever’ stamp to celebrate her legacy.The design was unveiled at a ceremony at Princeton…

Titled “The City and Its Uncertain Walls” the book will release on April 13 in both print and digital formats. The novel is Murakami’s first since Kishidancho Goroshi or Killing Commendatore which was released in February 2017. …

Issued on: 03/03/2023 - 11:13 A court in Belarus on Friday sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski to 10 years in prison, Russian state-owned news agency TASS…

OSLO: From North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) secretary general to the Ukrainian president, the war in Ukraine dominates the publicly known names submitted by Tuesday's (Jan 31) deadline for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. The list of…

Issued on: 18/01/2023 - 04:12 Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and her news site Rappler were acquitted by a court of tax evasion charges on Wednesday, a judge said,…