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 ...

STOCKHOLM, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The Nobel prizes, arguably the world's most prestigious awards, are to be announced this week. The prizes, with 11 million Swedish crowns (about $1 million) each, are ...

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 — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots. Moungi Bawendi, of MIT, Louis Brus, of Columbia University, and Alexei Ekimov, of Nanocrystals ...

A Nobel Prize winner called his parents in a heartwarming moment to reveal he won the prestigious award. Drew Weissman — alongside Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó — won the Nobel Prize in ...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded on Wednesday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Last year, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless shared the ...

So quipped the great New Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm in 1908 shortly after he had won that year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Rutherford, who at the time ...

The Nobel Prize in physics comes with an 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) cash award. The laureates will receive their awards on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is ...

Two American scientists and the British co-founder of Google’s artificial-intelligence subsidiary, DeepMind, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on the structure of proteins, the ...