The answer is: more people than you might think. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five categories—physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace—by committees who rely on nominations ...

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Salvador Luria was an Italian American microbiologist who shared his lab with Dulbecco in Bloomington after fleeing World War ...

Victor Ambros, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, has gained international ...

And Damadian appeared embarked on what many perceived to be an inevitable progression toward the famed concert hall in Stockholm where he would someday be awarded a Nobel Prize. This year ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi of Stanford University, Morten Meldal of University of Copenhagen ...

as the Nobel Prize does not have a category for mathematics. Since 1936, the Fields Medal has been awarded every four years to individuals aged 40 or younger, a narrow threshold. Many ...

It was praised by the Nobel Prize Committee for its depiction of “the structures of power” and “images of the individual resistance, revolt and defeat.” Blessed by dashing Latin looks ...