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When Tom Cech was growing up in Iowa City, Iowa, he didn't spend free time playing baseball or soccer. He spent it playing scientist.

Organic chemist who shared the 2016 Nobel prize in chemistry for his contribution to the development of molecular machines

Professor Hinton, a Nobel Prize winner, was once dubbed the ‘godfather’ of AI.

In October, David Baker was the only American scientist to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2024.

The Nobel prize winner pushes at the veil between this world and the next in the immersive tale of a solitary fisherman

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world, honoring groundbreaking achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and efforts for peace. Over the years, it has been awarded to some of the greatest minds and most influential figures in history—but not everyone who is deserving has…

You’ve got to hand it to the Nobel Prize in Literature committee: its citations are masterpieces of brevity and precision. Entire lifetimes of tireless, painstaking effort, thousands of pages written over decades, are summed up in a statement of around 20 words.

South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has spoken passionately about the process of writing and her evolution as a writer — all the way back to when she was 8 years old

South Korean author Han Kang, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, says she was shocked at this week’s martial law announcement in her home country