Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech powerfully captured the struggles faced by children around the world. Speaking with courage and conviction, she highlighted the urgent need ...

Percy Lavon Julian, born in Montgomery, Alabama, was a renowned research chemist with over 130 patents. His groundbreaking work included synthesizing steroids from plants, improving paint formulas ...

Since the Nobel Prize's beginnings in 1901, fewer than 1,000 people have won the world's most prestigious award. As National Geographic has previously covered, many great discoveries have been ...

OSLO - On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, so his wife ...

Sakharov Smuggled Nobel Prize Speech to Oslo Via Embassy Ploy, Papers Reveal 50 Years On By Gwladys Fouche and Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO (Reuters) - On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet ...

A European Parliament member from Slovenia says he nominated tech giant Elon Musk for a Nobel Peace Prize for his free speech advocacy. “The proposal that Mr. Elon Musk, for his consistent ...

His post read, "The proposal that Mr. Elon Musk, for his consistent support for the fundamental human right of freedom of speech and thus for peace, receives the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 ...

Marie Maynard Daly should have received a Nobel Prize. She was the first Black woman ... A world without the impactful research of Daly, Julian, Johnson or Drew would look very different.

The Nobel is one of the greatest branding exercises in history. Establishing a prize is easy. The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling ...

Three immigrants to America have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics, illustrating continued contributions by immigrants to the United States. The three immigrants—one from Turkey and two from ...

Two Massachusetts scientists have been recognized with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their role in the discovery of microRNA — key to the understanding of gene regulation and ...