Alfred Nobel

In June, US billionaires Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet invited America’s wealthiest citizens to join them in committing to give more than…

STOCKHOLM — Two Americans and a British-Cypriot economist won the 2010 Nobel economics prize Monday for developing a theory that helps explain why…

An American and two Japanese scientists won the 2010 Nobel  Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing a chemical method that has allowed…

STOCKHOLM — Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov shared the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for "groundbreaking experiments"…

In a welcome contrast to recent statistics showing Israeli schoolchildren’s declining math abilities, 40-year-old Hebrew University of Jerusalem…

In a formal but simple ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Thursday, 70-year-old Weizmann Institute of Science Prof. Ada Yonath - a pioneer in…

Strange behavior... Sir, - Re "Throwing children to the wolves" (October 14): How can we punish these children of foreign workers, discarding young…

Alfred Nobel must be spinning in his grave. How could five Norwegians have so screwed up his great prize?I grew up in awe of the Nobel and its noble…

Sir, - I am certain that never in the history of the Nobel prizes has a prize been awarded to someone less than a year in the public eye. It is not a…

Barack Obama went to bed Thursday night under attack for "flip-flopping" on Afghanistan-Pakistan, his centerpiece health care reform plan ever…

Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari urged US President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to start his term by giving "high priority" to the…

PRINCETON, New Jersey - Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the $700 billion financial…

Paul Krugman, whose relentless criticism of the Bush administration includes opposition to the $700 billion financial bailout, won the Nobel prize in…

Finland's ex-president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to build a lasting peace from Africa and Asia to Europe…

Al Gore and the UN climate panel's chief scientist accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Monday for sounding the alarm over what the former US vice…

Al Gore and the UN climate panel's chief scientist accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday for sounding the alarm over global warming and spreading…

Former US Vice President Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to…

As a child in Italy during World War II, he lived for years on the streets and in orphanages. Six decades later, as a scientist in the United States,…

Those of you familiar with Borat may have the impression that in Kazakhstan cars are pulled by donkeys, but the reality is quite different. In fact,…

Two human rights monitoring groups operating in the former Soviet Union, the Washington-based Union of Councils for Jews from the former Soviet Union…