The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the six awards given each year to the world’s most elite human rights leaders. Recommending Donald Trump for the most prestigious prize is like nominating a family patriarch from The Godfather for a humanitarian award. That’s exactly what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has done. Trump’s nomination is […]
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Nobel-winning Japanese chemist dies at 85
Japanese chemist Ei-ichi Negishi who won the Nobel prize for developing a method for creating complex chemicals necessary for manufacturing drugs and electronics has died aged 85, his US university said. Negishi died on Sunday in Indianapolis, Purdue University said in a statement on Friday, adding his family would lay him to rest in Japan […]
Two scientists from US, one from Britain get Nobel Medicine prize for learning how cells use oxygen
The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded on Monday to two Americans and a British scientist for their discoveries in how the body’s cells sense and react to oxygen levels. Their work has paved the way for new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and other diseases, the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute said […]