The Nobel Prizes are awarded each year on Dec. 10, the anniversary of founder Alfred Nobel’s death. The announcement of the prestigious prizes comes much earlier, however, and this year’s ...

In December 1896, Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, inventor and industrialist, died. He was 63 years old. He left behind no wife or children. What he did leave was money. A lot of money. So it was ...

What is the Nobel Prize? The Nobel Prize is a set of awards given each year to those who “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind,” founder Alfred Nobel said. Nobel was an inventor ...

Which U.S. presidents have received the Nobel Peace Prize Why these four men were honored with the prestigious award The ...

In other words, microRNA are little on-off switches within cells that help direct their function. About the Nobel awards. Nobel, who made a fortune from the invention of dynamite, died in 1895 and ...

The Nobel Prize is a set of awards given each year to those who “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind,” Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel said. Advertisement. Advertisement.

Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor and industrialist, included the Peace Prize in his will, stating it should go to the ...

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 ...

Dr. Salvador Luria, 57, washing the breakfast dishes in Lexington, Mass., was incredulous when a neighbor interrupted to report what he had just heard over the radio. Dr. Alfred Hershey, 60, also ...

The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Oct. 14. The laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies on Dec. 10, the ...

The Nobel prizes may be one of the most famous and prestigious awards in the world – but who was the man behind them? As I explain in my lectures about Alfred Nobel, the inventor and ...

The awards were established in 1895 though the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish-born inventor and international industrialist. Dr. E. Donnall Thomas (1990) Dr. Leland “Lee” Hartwell (2001) ...