Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nobel Peace Prize is an honor that is awarded to an individual or an organization who does impactful work towards bringing ...

Now it's time for our segment called Words You'll Hear. That's where we take a word or phrase that we think will be in the news in the coming days and let you know what it's all about. This week, our ...

Here's a look at past winners of the Nobel Peace Prize all the way back to Martin Luther King Jr.'s win in 1964. Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize, winning ...

Many have wondered why the Chinese-American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu never won a share of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics for her experimental verification of parity violation. Mats Larsson and ...

Dunant and Passy split the very first Nobel Peace Prize between the two of them. Dunant won for founding the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1863. Passy received the honor for founding the ...

The Nobel Prize in physics is the highest honor for scholars, awarded to people who make only the most outstanding discoveries. However, unfortunately, the woman responsible for one of the most major ...

December 9, 1958 - In December 1958, University of Nebraska alumnus George Beadle shared the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology with Edward Tatum for the discovery that genes act by regulating ...