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 ...

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 ...