Nobel Prize
Norwegian author Jon Fosse won the prize for âhis innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable.â
The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov for their work on tiny quantum dots.
The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne LâHuillier for looking at electrons in atoms during the tiniest of split seconds.
Katalin KarikĂł and Drew Weissman won the prize for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
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Many of the 140 bearded men competing attempt to copy the âPapaâ persona and appearance adopted by Hemingway in his later years.
It was long stated that the Nobel Prize winner died in 1973 of complications from prostate cancer, but the poetâs driver argued for decades that he was poisoned.
The laureates "have for many years promoted the right to criticize power and protect the fundamental rights of citizensâ in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
Annie Ernaux, 82, was cited for âthe courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory."
The prize was awarded equally to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for coming up with a way to snap molecules together.
Each year, the prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences âfor groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems.â