According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...

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.

Here are the winners of the six Nobel Prizes awarded this year. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Every October, committees in Sweden and Norway name laureates in a variety of prizes related to science ...

The Nobel is one of the greatest branding exercises in history. Establishing a prize is easy. The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling ...

Tomorrow, the latest laureate for the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced as part of the Nobel committee’s rollout ...

Author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense poetic prose” on Oct. 10, per a press release by The Royal Swedish Academy. Kang’s work focuses on “historical ...

Alfred Nobel’s will stated that the prizes should be funded from the interest generated by his estate’s investments, mainly from the invention of dynamite. The prize has been running since ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Photo: Imago/Zuma Press This field has a long and noble history in economics. The Nobelists ...

2024 Nobel Prize Winners: Full List Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2024: Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun Ambros and ...

Jack Smyth Supported by By A.O. Scott On Thursday, the Swedish Academy will award the Nobel Prize in Literature, the pre-eminent — perhaps only — global arbiter of literary greatness.

Nobel Prize laureates receive a gold medal alongside a large sum of prize money. Photo by Sergei Gapon/Anadolu via Getty Images The first of six 2024 Nobel Prizes was announced yesterday (Oct. 7 ...