The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nadia Murad for her efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. She shares the award with Denis Mukwege.  Berit Reiss-Andersen, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, announced the award at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo. The recipient […]

Sixty-two-year old Frances H. Arnold has won one half of the Nobel Prize 2018 in Chemistry. This is “for the directed evolution of enzymes”. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter ”for the phage display of peptides and antibodies”. Dr Arnold is […]

Donna Strickland has won the Nobel Prize in Physics. She is the first woman in 55 years and the third woman ever to win the prize in this field. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Physics Nobel in 1903. Maria Goeppert-Mayer earned the prize in 1963. Fifty-nine-year-old Strickland shares this year’s prize with Arthur […]

The #MeToo turmoil has engulfed the most prestigious platform for literature — the Nobel Prize. Following sexual misconduct allegations inside the board, the Nobel Prize for Literature has been cancelled this year, The Guardian reported. According to reports, the council of authors and linguists has been dealing with many allegations of sexual misconduct by the husband of […]