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A woman won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the first time in 55 years. The announcement came just a day after a physicist was suspended by CERN for controversial remarks about women. The two events highlight the sexism that endures in physics, but also some positive changes underway.
A trio of laser physicists—Arthur Ashkin, Donna Strickland, and Gérard Mourou—nab the prize for their work on optical tweezers and chirped pulse amplification. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bb3d5b640061e2cf0919822/master/pass/donnastrickland.jpg
Nobel Prizes are the most prestigious awards on the planet but the aura of this year’s announcements has been dulled by questions over why so few women have entered the pantheon, particularly in the sciences.
This year’s Nobel Prize recipients will be revealed starting Monday with the prize for medicine or physiology.
Getty Images Kofi Annan has died aged 80. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has died aged 80.See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: How a black cop infiltrated the KKK — the true story behind Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ See Also: Your opinion matters — Join […]
Opinion: Given the dearth of women receiving the top science prizes, it’s time for the Nobel Committee to revamp how it awards great work. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b085233899fa20f71de722a/master/pass/mariagoeppertmayer-515489470.jpg
Pool/Getty Images A group of Republican members of Congress on Wednesday nominated President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on North Korea’s nuclear program. Republican Rep. Luke Messer of Indiana sent a letter to the Nobel Prize Committee formally nominating the president, stating Trump was bringing peace to the Korean Peninsula via […]
Donald Trump should win a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end a standoff with North Korea over nuclear weapons, according to South Korea’s president. Moon Jae-in said Monday: “President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace.” Trump threatened war with North Korea multiple times and pushed very […]
Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Malala Yousafzai returned to Pakistan, six years after being shot by the Taliban. Yousafzai has been an advocate for schooling for girls. In 2014, she became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for her education advocacy. Nobel laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai returned to her native Pakistan on Thursday, […]
Kim Kyung Hoon/Reuters Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says bitcoin serves no useful function — other than circumventing legality. Stiglitz, who has called on bitcoin to be outlawed, told Blooomberg Television from Davos: “We have a good medium of exchange called the dollar.” He argues that regulating bitcoin would mean driving it out of existance […]
