Nobel prize season is always a time of excitement and speculation about potential winners, but it also brings criticism about the constraints imposed by the rules for the world’s most ...

The Nobel is one of the greatest branding exercises in history. Establishing a prize is easy. The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling ...

Nobel Prizes have been awarded since 1901 in recognition of an individual or group’s contributions to ‘the greatest benefit to mankind’ in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace ...

Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for their research into how the nature of institutions helps explain why some countries become rich and others remain poor. Daron Acemoglu ...

As the world gears up for Monday’s announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, it’s worth reflecting on whether the prize still carries the same value it once did. While the Nobel is ...

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world. In his will, Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor and industrialist, directed that his fortune be ...

Alfred Nobel’s will stated that the prizes should be funded from the interest generated by his estate’s investments, mainly from the invention of dynamite. The prize has been running since ...

The Nobel Prize announcements for 2024 are rolling out this week with awards in physiology or medicine to two Americans who discovered microRNA and honors in physics for an American and a Canadian who ...

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — or the Economics Nobel, to its friends — has been awarded to economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James ...

Jack Smyth Supported by By A.O. Scott On Thursday, the Swedish Academy will award the Nobel Prize in Literature, the pre-eminent — perhaps only — global arbiter of literary greatness.

STOCKHOLM — 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 on Wednesday.

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.