Page 3 - Latest Updates on Nobel Prize
Nobel Peace Prize 2024 awarded to Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo
Nihon Hidankyo is a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, known as Hibakusha.
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Nobel Prize in literature awarded to South Korean author Han Kang
Kang, 53, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for The Vegetarian, an unsettling novel in which a woman's decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences
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Google's Nobel prize winners stir debate over company's AI research
Former Google researcher Geoffrey Hinton, meanwhile, won the Nobel prize for physics on Tuesday, alongside US scientist John Hopfield, for earlier discoveries in machine learning
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Google DeepMind's chemistry Nobel showcases AI's medical potential
The prize was also the second this week to involve artificial intelligence, highlighting the technology's growing significance in scientific research
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Nobel sparks debate as AI pioneers honoured for neural nets, not physics
Honoured for neural nets, Hopfield and Hinton's Nobel raises questions on awarding contributions outside traditional physics
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Google Deepmind CEO Hassabis among 3 winners of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was awarded in two parts: one to David Baker, and the other jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for their contributions to decoding the protein structure
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 awarded to John Hopfield, Geoffrey Hinton
Hopfield's research is carried out at Princeton University and Hinton works at the University of Toronto
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Nobel Prize in Medicine is awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun
The prize was awarded for their discovery of microRNA and its role in regulating genes after transcription
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Nobel Prizes will be announced against backdrop of wars, famine, AI
The prize week coincides with the Oct 7 anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Israel, which began a year of bloodshed and war across the West Asia
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Bangladeshis welcome new interim govt, hope for restoration of peace
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, 84, on Thursday took oath as the head of an interim government, replacing Sheikh Hasina who abruptly resigned and fled to India leaving the country in turmoil
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Muhammad Yunus among over 2 dozen Nobel winners to head state: Check list
Amid crisis, Bangladesh President Mohammed Shahabuddin announced that Muhammad Yunus was appointed as the leader of Bangladesh's interim government
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Life wouldn't have been wasted if I didn't get the Nobel: Amartya Sen
Sen received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 1998 for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory
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Arundhati Roy awarded UK's Pen Pinter Prize for her 'unflinching' writings
The prize, established in 2009 by the charity English PEN, defends freedom of expression and celebrates literature in memory of Nobel-Laureate playwright Harold Pinter
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Nobel literature laureate Mo Yan accused of insulting China's heroes
Wu claimed Mo's books have smeared the Chinese Communist Party's reputation, beautified enemy Japanese soldiers and insulted former revolutionary leader Mao Zedong
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Compassion new culture of world, youth will take it forward: Nobel laureate
Compassion is going to be the new culture of world and the youth is going to take it forward, Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Monday.
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India set to boost its economic, geopolitical role: Nobel Laureate Spence
The eminent economist noted that India has successfully developed, by far, the best digital economy and financial architecture in the world
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India built best digital economy, finance infra: Nobel winner Spence
Spence also pointed out that the world is experiencing a "kind of regime change in the global economy"
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A happy life: 2 movies on pursuit of happy life and distractions in between
'Past Lives' and 'Three of Us' celebrate the pragmatism of love over the heady impulsiveness of romance
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Chandrayaan-3 to brain decoder, top 10 scientific achievements of 2023
Year ender 2023: Here, we look at some of these achievements, which serve as beacons of inspiration, symbolising the determination of the human spirit in the face of unprecedented challenges
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Robert Solow, Nobelist who tied technology to economic growth, dies at 99
Solow's students over his many years at MIT included Mario Draghi, who would go on to lead the European Central Bank and serve as Italy's prime minister
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