Washington: John Nash, the Princeton University mathematician and Nobel laureate whose towering intellect and descent into paranoid schizophrenia formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning ...

Though Nobel purists stress that the economics prize is technically not a Nobel Prize, it is always presented together with the others on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896.

The prize for literature is awarded for an author’s full body of work, not a specific text. Like all those awarded the Nobel Prize, Kang has won 11m krona ($1.1 million) for the prize.

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.

Some Nobel Prize winners use the award proceeds to fund research or support others in their field, while others put the money towards houses, boats and even croquet lawns.

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As the winners of the Nobel Prizes for 2024 were announced this week, Newsweek has produced a map showing where the most winners have come from around the world since the first award in 1901.

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier after the three scientists "demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light that ...

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She is the 19th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the second Iranian woman, after her colleague human rights activist Shirin Ebadi won the award in 2003.

The prize consists of a monetary reward, a ‘green gold’ medal plated with 24k gold and, for winners of the Nobel prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economics and Peace, an original artwork.

However, the Nobel selection committees, according to the rules laid down by Alfred Nobel in 1895, can only honor up to three people per prize. This requirement can prove to be a headache, Rees said.