Tag: Nobel Prize
Nobel Peace Prize for Maria Ressa and Dmitrij Muratow – Politics
Journalist Maria Ressa and journalist Dmitrij Muratow will win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. This was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo. They receive the awards for…
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Benjamin List and David MacMillan: Catalysts – Knowledge
from Hanno Charisius There is this constant joke in Benjamin List’s family. Whenever the phone rings and a Swedish phone number is displayed: Could be the call from Stockholm. That…
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Catalysis Researcher Benjamin List – Knowledge
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Benjamin List (Germany) and the native British David MacMillan for the development of asymmetric organic catalysis. The decision was announced by the…
Nobel Prize in Physics for Climate Researcher Hasselmann – Knowledge
Half of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Syukuro Manabe, born in Japan in 1931, and Klaus Hasselmann from Hamburg, also born in 1931, for “physical modeling of…
Nobel Prize in Medicine for Julius and Patapoutian – Knowledge
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year goes to the American physiologist David Julius and the Lebanese-American molecular biologist Ardem Patapoutian for their discovery of temperature and tactile…
Nobel Prize in Medicine for work on the sense of touch – knowledge
from Werner Bartens Nobel Committee spokesman Thomas Perlmann was a few minutes late to announce the winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Seldom has the public…
Nobel Prize in Medicine for US Sensory Researchers – Knowledge
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year goes to the American physiologist David Julius and the Lebanese-American molecular biologist Ardem Patapoutian for their discovery of temperature and tactile…
Interview: "It would be wrong to pay people for vaccinations now"
The willingness to be vaccinated can be stimulated with gentle impulses, but not in every phase of the pandemic. Nobel laureate in economics Richard Thaler on peer pressure, lotteries and…