Every year, committees in Sweden and Norway name laureates in a variety of Nobel prizes in the sciences, literature and economics, as well as peace work. This articles enlists the 2020 Nobel Prize Winners. About the Nobel Prize The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden, and based …
US music legend Bob Dylan, won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. He is the first songwriter to win the award. Literature Nobel also carries a prize of 8 million Swedish crown. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition“. About …
British-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their contributions to contract theory, shedding light on how contracts help people deal with conflicting interests. What is Contract Theory? Contract theory provides us with a general means of understanding contract design. One of the theory’s goals is …
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2016 has been awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos for his efforts to end his country’s 50-year civil war. Mr Santos negotiated a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group but the peace deal was rejected by a narrow majority of Colombians when it was …
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2016 has been awarded to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa for developing molecular machines, the world’s smallest machines that may one day act as artificial muscles to power tiny robots or even prosthetic limbs. Inspired by proteins that naturally act as biological machines within …
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