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Countdown to Nobel Literature Prize 2025: Experts Favor Western Contenders

This is Beirut, 09/10 12:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Literature Nobel Prize Speculations Sweden Culture

The Nobel literature prize could go to a Western author this Thursday, experts predict, though bookies have several authors from Asia as top picks even after South Korea's Han Kang last year became the first Asian woman to win. Awarding the prize to another woman this year would make history: it has never gone to a woman two years in a row, and ...

Skipping Class, Winning Prizes: The Untold Stories of Nobel Laureates

This is Beirut, 03/10 16:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Nobel Prize Education Science Culture

Some Nobel laureates were straight-A students from the get-go. But others AFP spoke to recounted how they cut class, got expelled, and had doubts about their future. Perhaps the most illustrious Nobel Prize winner, Albert Einstein, was once a mediocre student at Zurich Polytechnic School, now ETH Zurich. The young Einstein skipped classes, ...

Malala Yousafzai Attends Muslim Girls' Education Conference Snubbed by Taliban

This is Beirut, 11/01 10:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Malala Yousafzai Education Nobel

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai said she was "overwhelmed" to be back in her native Pakistan on Saturday, as the prime minister launched a global summit on girls' education in the Islamic world. The summit has brought together education leaders from Muslim-majority countries, but has been snubbed by Pakistan's neighbor Afghanistan, ...

Iran: Narges Mohammadi, Freedom in Letters of Blood

This is Beirut, 02/01 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Human Rights Iran Freedom Nobel Prize Activist

Temporarily released for medical reasons since December 4, Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian human rights activist, granted a rare interview to Elle magazine, revealing her literary projects and her relentless struggles behind bars. Winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, Mohammadi has been imprisoned multiple times over the past 25 years for her stance ...

Victor Ambros: From Skepticism to the Nobel Prize

Alain E. Andrea, 2024-12-10 19:40 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

Nobel Medicine Health

“All of my remaining realisable assets are to be disbursed as follows: the capital, converted to safe securities by my executors, is to constitute a fund, the interest on which is to be distributed annually as prizes to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.” These were Alfred Nobel's final ...

Announcement - Exclusive Interview with Victor Ambros, the 2024 Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine

This is Beirut, 2024-12-09 12:40 - Reading : less than a minute

Nobel Health

When, in 1993, Ambros identified a particular molecule, lin-4, he could not have imagined that he was laying the foundation for a scientific revolution. These microRNAs, invisible to the naked eye, are now considered the architects of biology, orchestrating essential processes within our cells. But what do these small, yet powerful, molecules ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Revolution of 'Smart' Proteins

Alain E. Andrea, 2024-10-10 12:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Nobel Chemistry

On October 9, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored Americans David Baker and John Jumper, alongside Briton Demis Hassabis, for their exceptional contributions in the field of proteins. According to the Academy's statement, Baker received half of the prize for his method of "computational protein design," which involves using computer ...

Nobel Prize in Physics: A New Era Beyond Human Intelligence

Alain E. Andrea, 2024-10-08 17:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Nobel Physics Artificial intelligence

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to British-Canadian John Hopfield (born 1933) and American Geoffrey Hinton (born 1947) for their fundamental discoveries that paved the way for "machine learning" through "artificial neural networks." Their work, conducted since the 1980s, highlights the importance of theoretical physics in the rise ...

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2024: A Great Reward for a Small Regulator

Alain E. Andrea, 2024-10-07 15:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Nobel Medicine

On October 7, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Victor Ambros (born 1953) and Gary Ruvkun (born 1952), two American biologists, for their "discovery of microRNAs and their role in the post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression." This discovery, made in 1993, profoundly ...

Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus Appointed to Lead Bangladesh's Interim Government

Lyne Sammouri, 2024-08-08 18:45 - Reading : less than a minute

Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus Nobel

Following mass protests, Muhammad Yunus, a renowned economist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has been appointed to lead an interim government in Bangladesh. The 84-year-old's appointment comes as a direct response to student leaders' calls for his leadership.

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