The Nobel Prize honours outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The first prizes were awarded in 1901. So far, 22 Nobel Prizes have been awarded ...

This year it is highly probably that two authors will receive the Nobel Prize for Literature ... which bore a certain dim resemblance to those of George Bernard Shaw; the satirical novels which ...

This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three US pharmacologists for their discovery that the unstable gas, nitric oxide (NO), is an essential regulator of vasodilation.

George de Hevesy invented the use of radioactive isotopes as ‘tracers’ – a way of following the movements or transformations of an otherwise identical substance with which a tracer mixes. From the ...

Tomorrow, the latest laureate for the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced as part of the Nobel committee’s rollout ...

Every October, a handful of scientists get woken up by a phone call to find out they've won a Nobel Prize in physiology ... or great stories — like [Barry Marshall] who infected himself with ...

One of the great economists of the 20th century, George J. Stigler won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1982 “for his seminal studies of industrial structures, functioning of markets, and ...