Two Americans, Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, share this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics for developing new models to stabilize the economy during crises. “A huge honor,” Woodford says via a video link.
BusinessFrenchman Henri Kagan and Japanese chemist Kenso Soai have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They are being honored for their research into mirror-image molecules and how chemistry can select the “right” version. Their discoveries have been crucial to the production of certain drugs, according to the Nobel Committee.
SwedenThis year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry could recognize work on molecularly thin, smart surface layers that protect electronics from corrosion or serve as highly accurate disease tests. The prize could also recognize skeletal editing. Here are some of the researchers tipped to win.
SwedenA giant ice cube at the South Pole that captures ghostly messengers from space. No “respectable physicist” should have agreed to join the project. But now Francis Halzen is receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics for the idea. “It feels strange,” he said at the press conference.
SwedenOptical atomic clocks, displays or metamaterials are among the areas being tipped as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Sweden’s national science academy) prepares to announce this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.
SwedenHow is it that we have had two hundred years of sustained economic growth? This is something that Joel Mokyr and Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt have answered in different ways in their research, for which they are now receiving the Economics Prize. It is about, among other things, "creative destruction".
BusinessThis year's Nobel Prize in chemistry is awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi, who have developed "MOF:s" – materials with fantastic potential. Their discoveries can contribute to solving some of humanity's greatest challenges.
SwedenCan a "mathematical revolution" be enough all the way to this year's Nobel Prize in physics? Or will it be progress within quantum computers that is awarded?
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