On This Day: Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, is born in 1903 Physicist Ernest Walton, who was 'smashing atoms' 20 years before the Manhattan Project, was born in County ...

Ernest Rutherford, a Nobel Prize winner known as the father of nuclear physics, is regarded by many as the first to knowingly split the atom by artificially inducing a nuclear reaction in 1917 ...

STOCKHOLM, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The Nobel prizes are to be announced this week, starting with the award for medicine or physiology on Monday. The awards, which are also given for achievements in ...

Nobel Prize money comes from Nobel, who wanted his wealth to be invested into a fund for the prizes. The interest on that money is used for the prizes today. Last year’s prize money was worth 11 ...

The 2024 Nobel Prize recipients have been announced, which shine a spotlight on some of the world’s most prominent thinkers and innovators. The awards, most of which date to 1901, are intended ...