Nobel Prize Archives

Nobel Sold for Ukrainian Kids Shatters Record at $103.5M

The Nobel Peace Prize auctioned off by Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov to raise money for...

3 US-Based Economists Win Nobel Prize for Societal Research

A U.S.-based economist won the Nobel prize for economics for pioneering research that showed an...

Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah Awarded Nobel Literature Prize

The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of Gurnah's “uncompromising and compassionate penetration...

Nobel in Chemistry Honors ‘Greener’ Way to Build Molecules

The work of Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan has allowed scientists to produce molecules...

Physics Nobel Rewards Work on Complex Systems, Like Climate

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize for physics for work that found order in seeming...

2 Win Medicine Nobel for Showing How We React to Heat, Touch

Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian separately identified receptors in the skin that respond to...

Was Michelle Obama Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Her husband, former U.S. President Barack Obama, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.

Did Immigrants Dominate the U.S. Nobel Prize Tally in 2016 and 2017?

Foreign-born, U.S.-based scientists and economists won a remarkable number of Nobel prizes in the last...

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Anti-Nuclear Weapons Campaign Group

The $1.1 million prize was given to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, based...