February 9, 2010
The definitive guide to The Nobel Prizes
The awards bequeathed to the world by Alfred Nobel in 1896 have set the benchmark for scientific and literary development ever since. All the latest news from the Swedish and Norwegian Committees is gathered here.
Hat-trick of Swedish universities make world top 100
Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala University and Stockholm University have made the grade in a new list of the world’s top 100 higher education establishments. READ (11 COMMENTS) »
Nobel fashion quips land writer in hot water
While the neckline of Princess Madeleine's gown is often under scrutiny by the media during Nobel Week, fashion commentary by one Swedish freelance writer earned her a ban from the leadership of top Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. READ (11 COMMENTS) »
Müller slams Russia at Nobel awards ceremony
While the glittering Nobel Prize ceremony opened to a trumpet fanfare, Herta Müller, winner of the Nobel Literature Prize, criticized a number of countries, including Russia, for their lack of commitment to human rights. READ (14 COMMENTS) »
Pomp aplenty as winners gather for Nobel gala
Nobel season reaches its pinnacle on Thursday evening as the 2009 laureates receive their awards from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and dignitaries gather for the banquet of the year at City Hall in Stockholm. READ (10 COMMENTS) »
Bildt berates Iran over treatment of laureate
As Stockholm gears up for Thursday's Nobel banquet, the foreign ministers of Sweden and Norway have lashed out at Iran for its treatment of 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, who says Iranian authorities confiscated her medal. READ »
What can't be said can be written: Herta Müller
Nobel literature laureate Herta Müller contemplated the power and meaning of words as she began her literature lecture on Monday at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. READ (5 COMMENTS) »
Nobel Week kicks off with feast and fancy
Nobel Week is once again in full swing, with the 12 Nobel laureates and their respective entourages arriving in the Swedish capital over the weekend. The week’s festivities will culminate with the Nobel Ceremony and Banquet on Thursday. READ (15 COMMENTS) »
Activists win 'Alternative Nobel Prize'
A Congolese environmentalist, an Australian doctor and a peace worker from New Zealand have been announced as the joint winners of the Swedish Right Livelihood Prize. READ (2 COMMENTS) »
Americans claim Nobel economics prize
Two Americans have been awarded the 2009 Nobel economics prize for their research on economic governance, including the first woman to ever receive the prize. READ (5 COMMENTS) »
Swedish journalist claims Obama Nobel jackpot
While the decision to award US President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize has been received by widespread surprise, one Swedish journalist is toasting the Norwegians after winning 50,000 kronor on the outcome. READ (9 COMMENTS) »
Obama Nobel win shocks Swedish peace group
The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society has classified as "shameful" the decision by the Nobel Committee in Oslo to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 to Barack Obama. READ (137 COMMENTS) »
German author wins Nobel Literature Prize
German writer Herta Müller has been announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009. READ (9 COMMENTS) »
Speculation mounts as Nobel lit prize nears
Literary circles in Sweden are bursting with speculation ahead of Thursday’s announcement of the Nobel Literature Prize, with many expecting the award to go to a poet for the first time since 1996. READ »
Three to split Nobel chemistry prize
Three chemists are to share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in revealing more about how cells go about using bits of DNA to form the blueprints for living organisms. READ (31 COMMENTS) »
Fibre optic pioneers to share Nobel physics prize
Three researchers are to share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for their breakthroughs in fibre optics and digital imaging, the Royal Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday. READ (15 COMMENTS) »
Pundits tip poets for Nobel Literature Prize
This year's Nobel Literature Prize could go to a poet for the first time since 1996, Swedish literary circles say as speculation mounts ahead of Thursday's announcement. READ (1 COMMENT) »
Nobel Prize for medicine split three ways
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three American researchers. READ (6 COMMENTS) »
Alfred Nobel's last will and testament
Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel created the Nobel prizes in his will, written in 1895, bequeathing his fortune to a fund that would honour "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." READ (4 COMMENTS) »
Date fixed for Nobel Literature Prize
The Swedish Academy said on Thursday that the winner of the Nobel Literature Prize will be announced on Thursday, October 8th. READ (1 COMMENT) »
Nobel corruption probe dropped
An investigation into the alleged corruption of several members of the Nobel prize science committee will be laid down, a Swedish prosecutor announced Friday. READ »
Clinton and Blair in Stockholm climate conference
Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Nobel prize-winner Wangari Maathai, met Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in Stockholm on Wednesday to discuss the impact of the financial crisis on work to arrest climate change. READ »
Head of Swedish Academy to step down
Horace Engdahl has announced he is stepping down as the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, the body which awards the Nobel Prize for literature. READ »
Nobel Committees investigated for bribery
Swedish prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into possible bribery after revelations that members of three Swedish Nobel Committees received free trips to China from the Chinese government. READ »
Nobel laureates receive prizes in Stockholm
Princess Madeleine and economics laureate Paul Krugman were among the guests at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm's City Hall on Wednesday evening. READ »
Sweden decks the halls for Nobel festivities
Over a million Swedes are expected to stay glued to their television sets on Wednesday to watch monarchs, politicians and assorted clever clogs tuck in to the annual Nobel banquet. READ »
Le Clézio travels into 'the forest of paradoxes'
Nobel literature laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio explores the paradoxes of his profession and argues that the eradication of hunger and illiteracy go hand-in-hand, writes Charlotte West. READ »
US Nobel laureate to miss 2008 ceremony
American Yoichiro Nambu, 87, who won this year's Nobel Physics Prize with two Japanese physicists, will not travel to Stockholm next week for the award ceremony, the Nobel Foundation said on Friday. READ »
French Nobel laureate receives Swedish literature prize
Nobel prize-winning French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was in Sweden on Saturday to receive the Stig Dagerman prize for his work drawn from his vast world travels, jury members said. READ »
American wins Nobel Prize for Economics
US economist and columnist Paul Krugman has been awarded the 2008 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. READ »
Bildt calls Ahtisaari's 2008 Nobel Peace Prize 'well-deserved'
Sweden’s foreign minister Carl Bildt offered his congratulations to former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari for being named the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. READ »
French novelist wins Nobel Literature Prize
French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has been awarded the Nobel Literature Prize. READ »
Nobel Literature Prize speculation mounts
As the Swedish Academy prepares to announce the winner of the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, critics argue that major US literary figures are being unfairly sidelined. READ »
Three chemists awarded Nobel Prize
The 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded jointly to two US scientists and a Japanese colleague "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". READ »
Nobel physics award split three ways
Two researchers from Japan and an American colleague have been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics. READ »
Three share Nobel Prize for Medicine
The 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to Harald zur Hausen, Francoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier. READ »
Date set for Nobel Literature Prize
As speculation begins to mount over this year's Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy said on Friday it would announce the winner on October 9th. READ »
Swedish Academy rep slams US literature
Swedish Academy supremo Horace Engdahl has shocked the global literary establishment by denouncing the cultural "ignorance" of authors from the United States. READ »
'Alternative Nobel' to Indian, US, Somali and German activists
Four social activists from India, the United States, Somalia and Germany have been named as this year's winners of the annual Right Livelihood Prize by the Sweden-based foundation. READ »
Nobel a likely no-no for Sweden's king of crime fiction
The most popular work of crime fiction ever published in Sweden is never likely to win a Nobel Prize. But it should, argues Jeanne Rudbeck, who is left spellbound by Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. READ »
Nobel literature academy hails Solzhenitsyn
The head of the institute that designates the Nobel literature prize has lamented the passing of the 1970 winner of the award, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. READ »
Winning Nobel ‘a bloody disaster’ for British author
British author Doris Lessing has said that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature was a "bloody disaster", adding she has now stopped writing, the BBC reported Sunday. READ »
Nobel speech censored by Chinese television
The Nobel Foundation has terminated a contract with TV 4 after it has emerged that its chairman's speech was censored by Chinese television. READ »
Lessing finally receives Nobel Prize
British author Doris Lessing received her Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in London on Wednesday, after having been too ill to come to Stockholm. READ »
Akzo Nobel completes takeover of ICI
Akzo Nobel announced on Wednesday that it had completed the purchase of British peer ICI. READ »
EU regulators approve Akzo Nobel's takeover of ICI
EU antitrust regulators have approved Akzo Nobel's purchase of British peer ICI READ »
'Slightly tipsy' man gatecrashed Nobel party
A gatecrasher dressed in coat and tails was removed from the Nobel Banquet after a television presenter revealed his secret. READ »
Pomp and ceremony for Nobel winners
Stockholm put on its glad rags and millions watched on TV as the Nobel Banquet celebrated the world's best brains. READ »
Nobel winners take prizes in Stockholm
The winners of the 2007 Nobel prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and economics received their awards from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf in a ceremony on Monday. READ »
'The y-chromosome is the biggest threat to humanity'
Nobel Prizewinner Oliver Smithies talks to Majsan Boström about Alfred Nobel, stem cell research and the problem with boys. READ »
What is Nobel Week really about?
As Nobel laureates, foreign media and a host of other dignitaries descend on Stockholm, Charlotte West recalls her conversations with two of last year’s winners about the real significance of Nobel Week. READ »
Nobel Banquet: the feast of feasts
Serving a banquet to over 1,400 people is no mean feat, and when the event is the Nobel Banquet, the stakes are high. Charlotte West goes behind the scenes at the grandest event in Sweden's calendar. READ »
Oldest laureates absent
The glittering Nobel prize festivities Monday will be a little less luminous without the presence of some of the older laureates. READ »
Lessing argues for Africa's 'unheard voices'
Nobel Literature Prize winner Doris Lessing has used her Nobel lecture to argue that the future of literature lies in knowledge-hungry developing countries, rather than in the apathetic west, writes Charlotte West. READ »
Winners gather to receive Right Livelihood Prize
The Right Livelihood prize, the so-called 'alternative Nobel prizes', was set to be awarded on Friday evening at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament. READ »
Doris Lessing too ill to attend Nobel Prize ceremony
Doris Lessing will not attend the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm on December 10th due to illness, it has been announced. READ »
Akzo Nobel shareholders approve takeover of ICI
Shareholders in Swedish-Dutch chemicals and paints group Akzo Nobel on Monday approved the company's proposed takeover of British peer ICI. READ »
Americans win Nobel Economics Prize
The 2007 Nobel Prize for Economics has gone to Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory". READ »
Swede tipped for Nobel Economics Prize
The 2007 Nobel prize season comes to a close on Monday with the announcement of the Economics Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Labrokes is tipping a Swedish professor to win. READ »
Al Gore and IPCC share Nobel Peace Prize
Former US Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are to share the Nobel Peace Prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced. READ »
Doris Lessing wins Nobel
British author Doris Lessing - "that epicist of the female experience" - has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy has announced. READ »
Literature Prize keeps pundits guessing
The winner of the 2007 Nobel Literature Prize is to be announced on Thursday and while some are putting their money on US novelist Philip Roth, anything is possible as the Swedish Academy is keeping mum on its choice. READ »
Passions and politeness: how to award a Nobel
The Swedish Academy is the austere and sobre institution that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature. AFP's Francis Kohn speaks to the Academy's permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl about the passions and the controversies behind literature's most coveted prize. READ »
German wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is to be awarded to German Gerhard Ertl, a pioneer in surface chemistry, it was announced on Wednesday. Ertl said he was speechless at being given the award. READ »
Two share Nobel Physics Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Frenchman Albert Fert and German Peter Grünberg, it was announced on Tuesday morning. READ »
The drawn-out birth of the Nobels
The will of Alfred Nobel led to the creation of some of the most sought-after international prizes in science, politics and literature. But many of his contemporaries were puzzled by his idea. READ »
Three share Nobel for mouse gene discoveries
The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to Mario R Capecchi, Martin J Evans and Oliver Smithies, it has been announced. They are being recognized for their roles developing gene targeting in mice. READ »
Nobel Literature Prize date set
The 2007 Nobel Prize for literature will be announced on October 11, the Swedish Academy said Friday, with literary circles already speculating wildly over who the winner could be. READ »
No jokes please, we're the Nobel Prize Committee
Sweden's literati-glitterati are whispering the names of the candidates for this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. As Jeanne Rudbeck writes, jokes and vulgarity don't go down well at the academy that bypassed Joyce and Wodehouse. READ »
'Alternative Nobel Prize' awarded
The Right Livelihood prize, an annual "alternative" to the Nobel prizes, was awarded Tuesday to peace and environmental activists from Sri Lanka, Kenya, Canada and Bangladesh. READ »
Akzo Nobel reported to police
Värmland's county administrative board has reported Akzo Nobel to the police after a quantity of lye leaked from a boat into an enclosed bay in Hammarö. READ »
Akzo Nobel makes new bid for ICI takeover
Dutch-Swedish chemicals group Akzo Nobel said Monday it had made a new takeover offer for British rival Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), valuing the company at 111 billion kronor. READ »
Swedish Nobel Prize winner dies
Kai Siegbahn, who won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1981, has died at the age of 89, the TT news agency reported on Saturday. READ »
Genius meets royalty on Nobel Day
Sunday saw the Swedish party of the year: the Nobel banquet. And as usual, genius and royalty took centre stage at the Stockholm celebrations. READ »
Banker for the poor wins Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 has been awarded to Muhammad Yunus, the founder of a micro-credit system to fight poverty in Bangladesh. He shares the prize with Grameen Bank, which he founded. READ »
Forgotten by Nobel, remembered forever
The Nobel Literature Prize has been won by many famous writers, but many others have been looked over by the Swedish Academy - which seems to hold popularity against a writer when it comes to the prestigious award. READ »
Turkish writer wins Nobel literature prize
The Turkish author, journalist and social commentator Orhan Pamuk has been awarded the world's most prestigious literature prize - and a cool 10 million kronor. READ »
Nobel economics prize goes to Edmund Phelps
US economist Edmund S. Phelps has won the Nobel economics prize - or the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, to give the award its full title. READ »
Speculation mounts over Nobel Literature Prize
The 2006 Nobel Literature Prize laureate will be announced next Thursday. Potential names being discussed in Stockholm's literary circles include Amos Oz, Philip Roth, Adonis and Mario Vargas Llosa. READ »
American follows father to Nobel glory
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to American Roger D Kornberg for his discoveries about how information in genes is copied. Kornberg's father also won a Nobel. READ »
Big Bang scientists win Nobel Physics Prize
American scientists John C. Mather and George F. Smoot have won the Nobel Physics Prize, the Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced. The pair are honoured for their work on the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. READ »
US Researchers win Nobel Medicine Prize
Two American researchers, Craig Mello and Andrew Fire, are to share the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research into the role of RNA molecules, it is announced. READ »
Nobel Prize dates set
The Nobel Foundation has set the dates for the announcements of this year's Nobel Prize winners. READ »
Günter Grass to keep Nobel Prize
The Nobel Foundation in Stockholm has rejected calls to revoke Günter Grass' literature prize, following his admission that he served in Germany's Waffen SS force during the World War II. READ »
All clear for Nobel Biocare
The Swedish Medical Products Agency says it sees no reason for Nobel Biocare AG to withdraw its dental implant Nobel Direct from the market. READ »
Nobel Biocare rejects bone loss claims
Swedish university professors have said a dental implant made by Nobel Biocare causes bone loss. We have not seen any evidence to support this, says the biotech company. READ »
Royals shine at Nobel banquet
Swedish king presents Nobel prizes
The theme of Saturday's Nobel banquet was 'Nordic' and Sweden's royal family glittered among the intellectual elite. The evening also provided a brief respite for beleaguered foreign minister Laila Freivalds.
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Swedish king presents Nobel prizes
The great and the good - and the jolly clever - gather in Stockholm for the academic world's Oscars. The winners are ten million kronor better off - and they might even get to meet Princess Madeleine. READ »
Opinion: An ignoble prize?
It is the world's most recognizable distinction of honour, but in elevating laureates to god-like status, does the Nobel Prize do humanity a disservice? READ »
Nobel Foundation could be investing in weapons
Part of the Nobel Foundation's capital, some of the proceeds of which fund the peace prize, is administered by a fund manager which is a major investor in missiles and cluster bombs, a Norwegian paper reveals. READ »
Stockholm theatre to premiere unknown Nobel play
A previously unknown play written by Alfred Nobel, the creator of the prestigious Nobel prizes, will premiere in Stockholm on the same day this year's awards are distributed. READ »
Pinter not coming to Nobel gala
Harold Pinter, the playwright awarded this year's Nobel prize for literature, will not attend the prize ceremony or the banquet in Stockholm for health reasons. He will, though, give the traditional laureate's lecture. READ »
Akzo Nobel to develop bird flu vaccine
The Dutch-Swedish pharamceutical group Akzo Nobel announces plans to develop a vaccine against the human form of bird flu and that tests would begin next year. READ »
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British playwright Harold Pinter has been awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy described him as "the foremost representative
of drama in post-war Britain" and said he had restored theatre to its basic elements.
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Academy man quits over Nobel winner
A member of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Literature Prize, has resigned in protest at last year's winner, creating controversy just days before the recipient of the 2005 prize is announced. READ »
Game theorists share economics Nobel
There's a peace theme behind this year's economics Nobel, which goes to Robert Aumann and Thomas Schelling "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis". READ »
Peace prize awarded to IAEA
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General Mohamed ElBaradei. READ »
A Nobel Calling
Jean-Paul Sartre turned one down, Marie Curie was the first woman to win one, and many doubt that Henry Kissinger should ever have been awarded his Nobel Prize. And we won't find out why he was for fifty years. READ »
Three share Nobel Chemistry Prize
The 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to a French scientist and two Americans for their pioneering work in the synthetic creation of molecules. "A great step forward for green chemistry," says the Nobel Committee. READ »
Physics Nobel honours optics research
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been shared between two Americans and one German physicist, all working in the field of optics, said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday. READ »
Australians share Nobel Prize for Medicine
This year's Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren, both from Australia, for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. READ »
Four share Right Livelihood prize
Sweden's Right Livelihood prize, dubbed the "alternative" Nobel Peace Prize, is awarded to activists from Canada, Malaysia and Botswana for promoting fair trade and the rights of migrant workers and indigenous peoples. READ »
Nobel descendant slams Economics prize
A week before this year's Nobel laureates are annonunced, the great great nephew of Alfred Nobel reiterates his criticism of the Nobel Economics Prize, calling it "a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation". READ »
Bono in running for Nobel prize
The Nobel Foundation will announce the winners of the prestigious prizes between October 3rd and 14th, but the Irish rocker faces stiff competition from presidents and humanitarian organisations. READ »
Former NYC mayor to be nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Sweden's former consul general in New York has proposed that the city's ex-mayor Rudolph Giuliani be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, arguing that he has "saved more human lives than most people alive today". READ »
Sick Madeleine misses Nobel party
The tabloids mourn, as Princess Madeleine is forced to miss the Nobel festivities thanks to a bout of the 'flu. Luckily a professor of astrophysical space research was on hand to fill her seat. READ »
Austrian wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Her Swedish publisher gets the printing presses working overtime, a film based on her book reopens and one of her plays, showing in Stockholm, starts doing brisk business - but Elfriede Jelinek won't be coming to Stockholm to claim her prize. READ »
Nobel Special: the Americans are coming to Stockholm
America's science department gets a pat on the back as this year's laureates are commended for discovering potential cancer treatments and a new natural force, explaining the sense of smell and getting to grips with business cycles. All this - plus farting herring - in our Nobel special. READ »
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