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Nobel Prize Literature 2014

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2014 has been awarded to the French author, Patrick Modiano, “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most...

October 11, 2014

Chemistry Nobel Prize 2014

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the year 2014 is being awarded to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and...

October 10, 2014

Nobel Prize for Physics 2014

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced its decision to award the Nobel Prize for Physics to Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura “for the invention of...

October 9, 2014    Awards, Honours & Persons in News

Nobel Prize Medicine winners 2014

John O’Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser have won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine for their work which has led to discovering the brain’s internal...

October 8, 2014

All unfilled chemical munitions of Syria destructed: OPCW

As per Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), all of Syria’s unfilled munitions have been destroyed. The United Nations and OPCW teams are working in tandem...

December 8, 2013    Awards, Honours & Persons in News

Nobel laureate Doris Lessing passed away

Doris Lessing (94), one of the UK’s most-influential writer and a Nobel Literature laureate passed away. Doris Lessing: Born: October 22, 1919, in Kermanshah, Iran British novelist, poet,...

November 20, 2013    Awards, Honours & Persons in News

Swedish envoy unviels ‘Nobel Memorial Wall’ in Kolkata

Commemorating the centenary of legendary polymath Rabindranath Tagore (Gurudev) receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Swedish Ambassador Harald Sandberg inaugurated the Nobel Memorial Wall, a permanent structure set...

October 29, 2013    Places in News Current Affairs

First Genesis Prize "Jewish Nobel Prize" to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg

New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been selected for the inaugural Genesis Prize – an award popularly dubbed the Jewish Nobel Prize given by the Government...

October 24, 2013    Awards, Honours & Persons in News

Eugene Fama wins Nobel in Economics for his Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)

American Economist Eugene Fama won the Nobel prize for economics for developing new methods to study trends in asset markets. He is one of the three American Economists...

October 17, 2013    Awards, Honours & Persons in News

Nobel Peace Prize 2013 goes to OPCW

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) won the Nobel Peace Prize 2013 for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons. The award was announced by Nobel Committee...

October 16, 2013    Awards, Honours & Persons in News

Taiwan business magnate Samuel Yin starts Asia's Nobel-type prizes

Samuel Yin, head of Ruentex Group, of Taiwan tycoon is funding to establish Tang Prize Foundation with an initial endowment of $103 million. It has been named after...

February 2, 2013    Awards, Honours & Persons in News

Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini “Lady of the Cells” passed away

“Lady of the Cells”, as she was known in Italy, Rita Levi-Montalcini  (103) passed away. She was a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution...

January 6, 2013    Science & Technology