Nobel Prize Winners

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Trio wins Nobel Prize in physics for split-second glimpse of superfast spinning world of electrons

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for giving us the first split-second glimpse into the superfast world of spinning electrons, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or disease diagnoses.

https://apnews.com/article/physics-nobel-prize-stockholm-73b17b0f2c417a51f9d71964b170a395?

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Trio wins Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on quantum dots, used in electronics and medical imaging

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their work on quantum dots — tiny particles just a few nanometers in diameter that can release very bright colored light and whose applications in everyday life include electronics and medical imaging.

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-chemistry-stockholm-cabca0d16dc33427799886a1f012effe?

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Oops! Nobel chemistry winners are announced early in a rare slip-up

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The most prestigious and secretive prize in science ran headfirst into the digital era Wednesday when Swedish media got an emailed press release revealing the winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry and the news prematurely went public.

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-chemistry-leak-52e681abdb81943ca85c8438973f97a4?

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The Nobel literature prize goes to Norway’s Jon Fosse, who once wrote a novel in a single sentence

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for writing that prize organizers said gives “voice to the unsayable.”

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-literature-ee1bd9e65cbce0d32026712f94a2ef3a?

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Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting women’s oppression

Mohammadi, 51, has kept up her activism despite numerous arrests by Iranian authorities and spending years behind bars. She has remained a leading light for nationwide, women-led protests sparked by the death last year of a 22-year-old woman in police custody that have grown into one of the most intense challenges to Iran’s theocratic government.

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Nobel economics prize goes to Harvard’s Claudia Goldin for research on the workplace gender gap

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Claudia Goldin, a Harvard University professor, was awarded the Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that helps explain why women around the world are less likely than men to work and to earn less money when they do.

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-economy-224c204c0cc20843636e5525d6a61673?

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Nobel Prize in medicine honors 2 scientists for their discovery of microRNA

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their discovery of microRNA, tiny bits of genetic material that serve as on and off switches inside cells that help control what the cells do and when they do it.

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Pioneers in artificial intelligence win the Nobel Prize in physics

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats for humanity.

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-physics-fc0567de3f2ca45f81a7359a017cd542?

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Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 3 scientists who used AI to design proteins, life’s building blocks

LONDON (AP) — Three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life — were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday. Their work used advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, and holds the potential to transform how new drugs are made.

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-chemistry-prize-56f4d9e90591dfe7d9d840a8c8c9d553?

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Han Kang wins the Nobel Prize for literature. She’s the first South Korean to do so

STOCKHOLM (AP) — South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for a poetic and unsettling body of work that the Nobel committee said “confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-literature-prize-e52fdabe9379d351d744e121218bddc5?

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Nobel Peace Prize given to Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for its work against nuclear weapons

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots Japanese organization of atomic bomb survivors, for its efforts "to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons." The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised the group today "for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again." The organization was formed by survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. This prize is the 105th to be awarded since 1901. Nihon Hidankyo, the 141st laureate, will receive a cash award of around $1 million.

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Nobel economics prize goes to 3 economists who found that freer societies are more likely to prosper

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to three economists who have studied why some countries are rich and others poor and have documented that freer, open societies are more likely to prosper.

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-economics-prize-db3bfe55ac17dd22cf82f1dd637bfa94?

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The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for key immune system discoveries

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our own bodies.

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-medicine-a68cf8a3b930570630168a949d277cde?

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Three scientists at US universities win Nobel Prize in physics for advancing quantum technology

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers.

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-physics-e74ee2acf652259cf268cc1d48873e14?

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Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery that could trap C02 and bring water to deserts

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their development of new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside, laying the groundwork to potentially suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere or harvest moisture from desert environments.

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-chemistry-87dcb74eb01e3d5ba8efc32832e51ef6?

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Hungarian master of absurdist excess László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said upholds the power of art in the midst of “apocalyptic terror.”

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-literature-25f9886d2c35dabfc6ab7936a8a159c0?

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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-peace-prize-oslo-41b6bff88e2d57af0917bcf778e132ad?

Nobel Peace Prize

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this morning to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her pro-democracy work. The announcement came after a public bid by the White House on behalf of US President Donald Trump for his role in working to resolve eight conflicts. Multiple nominations in Trump's favor came after the committee's Jan. 31 deadline.  The announcement caps a week of selections. Yesterday, the Nobel Committee announced Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai will receive the literature prize for his work covering dystopian themes. The novelist and screenwriter is known for sprawling prose, with sentences that can run on for pages (his most recent book, "Herscht 07769," is one sentence long, spanning roughly 400 pages). Earlier this week, scientists were recognized for their work to better understand the immune system (Nobel Prize in medicine), discoveries in quantum mechanics (physics), and for developing new molecular architecture (chemistry).  The Nobel Prize in economics will be announced Monday.

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? Nobel Peace Prize to democracy activist

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks to protesters in Caracas in January. Photo: Gaby Oraa/Reuters Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize today "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy." Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer who lives in hiding, was blocked in 2024 by Venezuela's courts from running for president and thus challenging President Nicolas Maduro, in power since 2013. (Reuters) Drone view of a crop-art portrait by agricultural artist Peter Winner in a field near Kibbutz Maoz Haim in northern Israel yesterday. Photo: Guy Sherry/Reuters President Trump had received several nominations for the Peace Prize, and there was an 11th-hour, long-shot campaign for him after the ceasefire and hostage-return deal in Gaza. Trump said in his UN speech last month that after ending multiple wars and negotiating the Abraham Accords in his first term, "everyone says that I should get the Nobel Peace Prize for each one of these achievements." "But for me," Trump added, "the real prize will be the sons and daughters who live to grow up with their mothers and fathers because millions of people are no longer being killed in endless and unglorious wars. What I care about is not winning prizes — it's saving lives." More on the winner.

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Nobel economics prize goes to 3 researchers for explaining innovation-driven economic growth

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three researchers who probed the process of business innovation won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for explaining how new products and inventions promote economic growth and human welfare, even as they leave older companies in the dust.

https://apnews.com/article/nobel-prize-economics-2347b4214e029b132458269c33df192e?

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel committee will hand out its Peace Prize today, but this year's winner will not attend the award ceremony in Norway. Under persecution from Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's government, opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado has been living in hiding since last year, and her current whereabouts are unknown. Machado received the accolade for tirelessly promoting democratic rights in Venezuela and "for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy," the Nobel Committee said. Machado's daughter will accept the prize and deliver a speech on her mother's behalf.