Nobel Prize in Chemistry: how lithium ion battery inventors changed the world: This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is shared by Michael Stanley Whittingham, John Bannister Goodenough and Akira Yoshino. These three world-leading scientists deserve enormous credit for their contributions to lithium ion battery (LIB) technology. The decision to award more than one person correctly …
Nobel Prize in Physics: James Peebles, master of the universe, shares award: During the press conference in which he was revealed as one of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics, James (Jim) Peebles was asked to point to a single discovery or breakthrough from his long career that would put the award …
Sexual violence as a weapon of war: why the Nobel Prize for Peace matters: Joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize: Nadia Murad (left) with Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege. EPA-EFE/Stephanie Lecocq For ordinary women and men, peace is vital – as essential as air itself. Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, the recipients of the Nobel …
‘Weird and wonderful’ science pictures in running for global prize: PHOTOS giving an rare insight into the weird and wonderful world of an Oxfordshire science centre have been submitted to a global competition. Voting has been opened for the 2018 Global Physics Photowalk and images taken by scientists based in Harwell are hoping to win …
Nobel literature row: usually it takes a world war to disrupt the prize: The Swedish Academy has announced it will not select a Nobel laureate in literature for 2018. Instead, two laureates will be appointed 2019, one for 2018 and one for 2019. The decision is not unique. The prize has been withheld on no …
New African literature is disrupting what Western presses prize: Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie after a reading of her book 'Americanah' in Lagos in 2013. Akintunde Akinleye /Reuters African literature is the object of immense international interest across both academic and popular registers. Far from the field’s earlier, post-colonial association with marginality, a handful of star …
Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘novels of great emotional force’: An annual cycle of intrigue and speculation, followed by the denouement – at which point the whole knotty process come to a head. Not the sagas of the political party conference season, but the perennially shocking announcement of the Nobel Laureate in …
Tipped to win Nobel literature prize, Kenya’s Ngugi misses out — again: Kenyan author Ngugi Wa Thiong'o shows his newly released book "Wizard of the Crow" during launch at a Nairobi bookshop. Antony Njuguna/Reuters Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o was the bookies’ favourite for the second year to win the Nobel prize in literature. But …
Santos got the Nobel Prize for not giving up on peace – here’s why all Colombians won: Only days after the people of Colombia voted to reject a historic peace deal he spent years negotiating, the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the country’s decades-long war …
Daily World Dispatch – Hurricane Matthew, the VP debate and a prize for weird science: An Australian has been arrested in Indonesia for running a restaurant business on a tourist visa . Our Jakarta correspondent Jewel Topsfield explains Indonesian authorities are very strict on foreigners abusing their visa system. : Weird News Mystery over rotting …
Anna Nathan Early Music Prize – a Music interest event taking place on 2016-10-02 17:00:00 in New Zealand Although the then Auckland University College had offered academic music courses since 1888, it wasn't until 1956 that the College established a … at The Univeristy of Auckland School of Music Auckland New Zealand – Add your …