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Paul Tenngart's book explores the Nobel Prize in Literature's influence on global literary canon, highlighting biases and the elitist selection process.
By Dylan Loeb McClain George E. Smith, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing a revolutionary imaging device that has not only allowed scientists to see the universe more clearly but has ...
President Trump’s results stand in contrast to the record of other Nobel Peace Prize recipients. Barack Obama received the award in 2009 just nine months into his presidency — an honor based ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Adam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received it. Earlier this year, Riess, who is now 55, pulled a graph-paper ...
At the core of the innovation envisioned by Dr. Smith and Willard S. Boyle (who shared in the 2009 Nobel Prize) was a phenomenon known as the photoelectric effect that was explored half a century ...
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire, the new documentary portrait of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Holocaust survivor, and Jewish writer who devoted his life to sharing the story of what millions of his ...
A Pepperdine University academic has nominated North Little Rock anti-capital-punishment activist Jeff Hood to receive the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, citing his “service to the condemned on death ...
Mark Alfred Werner, 82, of Jacksonville, FL, passed away on May 27, 2025. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on May 8, 1943, to Vincent and Vivian Werner. He is survived by his daughters ...
(Courtesy: Matin Durrani) The first session at the Helgoland 2025 meeting marking the centenary of quantum mechanics began with the four Nobel-prize-winning physicsts in attendance being invited on ...
Free Expression: Have we misjudged the impact of the Trumpian disruption? Could the effect be better understood , in part, as the progression of deglobalization, which accelerated with Brexit ...