For those fuzzy on the details, here’s a progressive timeline that led to this monumental achievement ... field of protein biology when biochemist Christian Anfinsen won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

American James Watson shares the Nobel Prize in medicine with British researchers Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins for their work on DNA. Astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit ...

The coveted Nobel Prizes are announced annually, and the most recent installment is here. This year's U.S. winners include Harvard professor Claudia Goldin, two University of Pennsylvania ...

Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2021 to 2025, has served in Congress, as White House chief of staff under President Barack Obama, and as mayor of Chicago. He will spend the next year ...

This year it is highly probably that two authors will receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Prize for 1949 was held over because the members of the Swedish Academy could not agree on any ...

The Nobel Prize honours outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace. The first prizes were awarded in 1901. So far, 22 Nobel Prizes have been awarded ...

MICHELSON, ALBERT ABRAHAM (19 Dec. 1852-9 May 1931), the first American to win a Nobel prize in the sciences (physics, 1907), was born in Strelno, Prussia (Strzelno, Poland), the son of Rosalie ...

STAVANGER, Norway--Wars, a refugee crisis, famine and artificial intelligence could all be recognized when Nobel Prize announcements begin next week under a shroud of violence. The prize week ...