James P Allison jointly won the Nobel Prize in medicine with Tasaku Honjo for their discovery of cancer therapy by “inhibition of negative immune regulation. The scientists’ groundbreaking work on the immune system has paved the way for a new class of cancer drugs that are already dramatically changing outcomes[Read More…]
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Hawking treated Artificial Intelligence as threat to humanity
New Delhi: Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Stephen Hawking, who died on Wednesday, always warned against Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its growing dominance over humanity. “Earth is becoming too small and humanity is bound to self-destruct, with AI replacing us as the dominant being on the planet,” he told wired.com in[Read More…]
English author Kazuo Ishiguro awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
Kazuo Ishiguro has been chosen as the winner of the Nobel Prize in the literature on Thursday by the Swedish Academy. Notably, the literature Nobel has always been a hard prize to predict. People were stunned when last year’s award was won by Bob Dylan, mainly famous as a singer[Read More…]
Bob Dylan finally agrees to accept Nobel Prize
Bob Dylan will finally receive his Nobel Literature Prize for literature in Sweden this weekend, the academy has announced. At the time of Award ceremony, the Swedish Academy said that the singer-songwriter informed them “he wishes he could receive the prize personally, but other commitments make it unfortunately impossible.” The[Read More…]
Police recover Kailash Satyarthi’s stolen Nobel Prize replica, 3 arrested
Delhi Police on Sunday claimed to have recovered the replica of Nobel Peace Prize and its citation along with the jewellery, stolen from Kailash Satyarthi’s home. Three people were arrested in connection with the case, ANI reported. The south Delhi apartment of the Nobel Laureate was robbed on February 6. On[Read More…]
Nobel citation robbed from Kailash Satyarthi’s home
The south Delhi apartment of Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi was robbed. According to reports, thieves broke into Satyarthi’s apartment in south Delhi’s Alaknanda. Many things, including Nobel Prize citation, were stolen from the house, DCP South East Delhi confirmed. Kalkaji Police registered a case and a forensic team[Read More…]
Maryam Mirzakhani becomes the first woman to win the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics”
Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman in 78 years to be awarded the prestigious Fields Medal, considered the highest honour in mathematics. She was awarded for “stunning advances in the theory of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.” on Wednesday. The Fields Medal is awarded to stalwart mathematicians under 40[Read More…]
I recognize that I am in very rare company: Bob Dylan’s Nobel speech
Singer- Song writer Bob Dylan finally admitted that he was stunned and surprised when he was told he won a Nobel prize for literature. He described the victory as ” “something I never could have imagined or seen coming”. US Ambassador to Sweden read out Dylan’s letter at the annual[Read More…]
Bob Dylan breaks silence over Nobel Prize, accepts prize
Bob Dylan, the American singer-songwriter who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature has finally told the Swedish Academy that he will accept the prize. Despite the repeated attempts by award-givers, media-shy Dylan did not make any comment on the 8 million crown ($900,000) prize and told the British Daily,[Read More…]
Blowin in the Wind: An ode to Bob Dylan
I first heard the song Blowin in the Wind several years back in JNU. I was a new entrant and was straight away swept away by it, such was its all-pervasive power even half a century after its penning. I remember guys meticulously learning to strum the chords of Blowin[Read More…]
10 Greatest Bob Dylan songs of all times
The American singer-songwriter has has released great albums every decade since he started in the ‘60s and some of them have been poetic marvels. Every generation has been able to identify with the music and he has emained one of rock’s most influential, striking and polarizing figures.
Rock legend Bob Dylan wins Nobel Literature Prize
American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy said Dylan ‘created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’. Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941 and began his musical career in 1959, playing in coffee houses in[Read More…]
Nobel prize: Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmstrom share prize in economics
British-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their contributions to contract theory, shedding light on how contracts help people deal with conflicting interests. Their findings on contract theory have implications for corporate governance, bankruptcy legislation and political constitutions, among other[Read More…]
Yoshinori Ohsumi wins Nobel prize in medicine for work on autophagy
The Nobel prize in medicine has been awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries on how the body’s cells detoxify and repair themselves. The Japanese cell biologist will receive the prestigious 8m Swedish kronor (£718,000) award for “mechanisms for autophagy”. Autophagy is essentially the body’s internal recycling program – scrap[Read More…]