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Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to scientists for work on proteins

6:16am October 09, 2024

The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins. The awards continue with the literature prize on Thursday.

Carolyn Bertozzi celebrates winning a Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday at Stanford University in California.

See this year's Nobel Prize-winning scientists swig bubbly and get cheered at work

3:54pm October 06, 2022

by Christopher Dean Hopkins

What do you do when you (or a colleague) wins a Nobel Prize for your scientific research? Party! Or at least that's what these honorees in medicine and chemistry did.

The last Nobel Prize in Literature winner was Kazuo Ishiguro, who took the honor in 2017. The Swedish Academy will award two literary prizes in 2019, the Nobel Foundation says.

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Nobel Foundation Confirms It Will Award 2 Literature Prizes In 2019, With Changes

2:18pm March 05, 2019

by Bill Chappell

A year after the Swedish Academy faced a crisis, the body "no longer includes any members who are subject to conflict of interest or criminal investigations," the Nobel Foundation says.

Dr. Denis Mukwege (left), from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2014 and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman from Iraq, in 2016 as they both address the European parliament in Strasbourg, France. The pair won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for their work to h

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Nobel Peace Prize Goes To Denis Mukwege And Nadia Murad For Fighting Sexual Violence

8:03am October 05, 2018

by Emily Sullivan

Mukwege, a doctor, and Murad, a survivor of wartime sexual assault, have worked to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.

Kazuo Ishiguro, seen here in 2010, has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for literature.

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Kazuo Ishiguro Wins Nobel Prize In Literature

11:11am October 05, 2017

by Bill Chappell

Kazuo Ishiguro was 5 when his family moved from Japan to Britain; he has said that as a kid, he used TV Westerns — like Bonanza and Wagon Train -- to help him learn English.

An illustration provided by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences shows the dramatic gain in resolution that came with the development of cryo-electron microscopy. What had been seen as blobs can now be distinguished as proteins in atomic resolution.

Nobel Prize In Chemistry Honors Views Of Human Cells Working At The Atomic Level

11:46am October 04, 2017

by Bill Chappell

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson worked to develop cryo-electron microscopy, which the Royal Swedish Academy says "both simplifies and improves the imaging of biomolecules."