He developed technologies that helped pave the way for the Global Positioning System and made foundational discoveries that ...

The paper argues that the third principle of thermodynamics follows from the second principle, rather than being a separate or independent concept. Professor José María Martín-Olalla of the University ...

Henri Bergson, on the other hand, was widely misunderstood in the years succeeding the debate from the evening of 6 April, ...

The award ceremony was followed by an elaborate banquet, where Nobel Prize winners were given the opportunity to deliver their acceptance speeches. Hinton used his time to deliver a brief but urgent ...

Einstein would live up to that pledge two years later. In 1921, he won the Nobel in physics—awarded in part for the work first hinted at in these letters (and his potential collaboration) with ...

Prizes with more generous cash stipends exist—the Breakthrough Prize, created by Mark Zuckenberg and other tech billionaires, pays $3 million, compared with Nobel’s sum of about $1 million ...

The awards’ strict constraints often prompt frustration — if these prestigious prizes were created for the twenty-first century, how would they be different?

Helping friends and family Some Nobel Prize laureates decide not to keep the funds for themselves, but instead dole them out to those closest to them. Albert Einstein, the German winner of the ...

Established by Alfred Nobel in 1901, past laureates have included Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Below is a list of all of this year’s winners as they are ...

The Nobel Peace Prize has been suspended 19 times before, including during both world wars. Henrik Urdal, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, says withdrawal would be a mistake in 2024.