Nobel Prize

American Scientists Win Prestigious Nobel
Three American Musketeers have finally won the Nobel prize jointly in medicine for their work in 1980's on health cells and the aging process.

Embattled Nobel Scientist James Watson Quits After Racist Remarks
Controversial Nobel Prize winner James Watson retired from a prominent position at an East Coast laboratory this week after a furor erupted over comments he’d made about African intelligence.

Mario Capecchi, Former WWII Street Urchin, Wins Nobel Prize
After surviving a brutal childhood on the streets of Italy during WWII, American geneticist Mario Capecchi shares the Nobel Prize with two other scientists.

Life of John Steinbeck: A Biography
Read the life history, facts and biography of John Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winning American writer of novels and films…

Playwright Harold Pinter wins the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature
The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature to British playwright Harold Pinter, praising him as one of the top three playwrights of the last 50 years.

Nobel Award Restores French Literary Pride
Novels of cult French writer expected to see a massive sales boost in Britain where they are currently out of print

No Nobel Prizes for American Writers: They're Too Parochial
Permanent secretary of jury for literature prize angers US critics with tirade on nation's 'ignorance'

Nobel Prize Winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies Aged 89
Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died following a long illness

Precision Measuring Wins Pair a Share of Nobel Physics Prize
Precision measuring wins pair a share of Nobel physics prize

Nobel Economist Endorses Chávez Regional Bank Plan
The Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has endorsed an ambitious plan by Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez, to create a pan-regional bank for Latin America. Professor Stiglitz, a Washington insider and former World Bank chief economist, said the Bank of the South would benefit the region and give a welcome shakeup to western lending institutions.

Pierre-gilles De Gennes
Obituary: Nobel-prizewinning physicist hailed for his pioneering research into soft matter.

I'm No Hero, Says Woman Who Saved 2,500 Ghetto Children
Poland puts 97-year-old forward for Nobel prize - Social worker smuggled Jews out of Warsaw

Monetarist Economist Friedman Dies
Milton Friedman, the Nobel prize-winning economist and Margaret Thatcher's monetarist guru, died today at the age of 94.

Nobel Prize-winning Economist Milton Friedman Dies at 94
Milton Friedman, the legendary but controversial American economist who inspired Margaret Thatcher's monetarist revolution, has died at the age of 94

Nobel Prize for Hero of Liberal Turkey Stokes Fears of Nationalist Backlash
· Controversial figure wins €1.1m after troubled year · Prize given for politics, not novels, claim critics

Grass Admits Serving With Waffen-ss
Günter Grass, the Nobel prize-winning German author, has admitted that he was in the Waffen SS in the second world war.

Iraq War Could Cost Us Over $2 Trillion, Says Nobel Prize-winning Economist
· Economists say official estimates are far too low · New calculation takes in dead and injured soldiers

Calls Grow for Withdrawal of Nobel Prize
· Israeli group objects to award for 'warmongers' · Game theory used for political bias, say critics

Harold Pinter Wins Nobel Literature Prize
A brief look at the life of the leading 20th century British playwright Harold Pinter.

Nobel Winner's Work is Violent Porn, Says Juror
· Author quits in protest at last year's award to Jelinek · Attack comes on eve of naming of 2005 laureate

Nobel Split Delays Book Prize
The secretive group of intellectuals who award the Nobel Prize for literature have delayed their decision for at least a week amid reports of a split over honouring the controversial Turkish author, Orhan Pamuk.

Instant Respect, a Door-opener, Even Life-saver
Previous winners of the Nobel Prize comment on what it's like to receive the award.

Nobel Physics Prize Awarded to Optic Pioneers
Three scientists who shed light on the nature of optics have won the Nobel prize for physics.

Scientist Who Braved Ulcer Wins Nobel
An Australian microbiologist who swallowed mouthfuls of bacteria to prove they cause stomach ulcers was awarded the 2005 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for his pioneering research yesterday.

Solzhenitsyn Bemoans Russian Politics
The Nobel Prize-winning writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn has lamented the state of Russian politics and government in a rare televised interview in Russia, saying it will take many years before the country has anything resembling democracy.

Austrian Writer Wary at Scooping Nobel Prize
The severe, feminist and dissident Austrian writer has unexpectedly won the $1.3m (£750,000) Nobel prize for literature.

Physicists Win Nobel Prize for Quark Theory
Three American physicists shared the £760,000 Nobel prize for physics for calculating the bizarre properties of the ultimate fragments of matter.

Scientists' Sweet Smell of Success
Two US researchers yesterday shared the £760,000 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine for their discovery of the molecular machinery behind the scent of lilac in the spring, the bouquet of a vintage burgundy or the smell of napalm in the morning. Richard Axel, 58, of the Howard...

Free Speech Heroine Gordimer Accused of Censorship
Apartheid fighter halted biography in UK and US, claims author. She is a giant of literature and symbol of free speech, a writer who stayed in South Africa during apartheid to fight for liberation by chronicling human relations under an evil system. Her novels earned a Nobel prize and a reputation as the symbol of restless white conscience.

Soyinka Promises More Protests After His Arrest
The Nigerian Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka has vowed to launch new anti-government protests after being tear-gassed and arrested by police in Lagos at the weekend. "I was out with others to protest against the increasing dictatorship in this country," Mr Soyinka said after his...

The Guardian Profile: Mordechai Vanunu
An imprisoned hero, a Nobel prize nominee, a victim, or a traitor: Israel's nuclear whistleblower represents many things to many people. How will he and his country react when the day of his release from jail dawns next week?

Nobel prize for JM Coetzee - secretive author who made the outsider his art form
World acclaim for exiled South African novelist unread at home. The South African writer JM Coetzee won the Nobel prize for literature yesterday for dark meditations on post-apartheid South Africa which have been acclaimed for reflecting the human condition.

Anger of Nobel winner's widow
The widow of the Nobel Prize winning Russian academic Andrei Sakharov has objected to a statue being erected in his honour in central Moscow because she feels the human rights abuses, poverty and political life of Russia today do not correspond to the principles and memory of her late husband.

Boon of the unknown toiler
The unexpected Nobel prize success of a humble salaryman may provide the boost to Japanese science the government has been hoping for, writes Jonathan Watts

The Nobel prize
As Jimmy Carter is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, read our guide to the best sites on the international accolade.

Hungarian Camp Survivor Wins Literature Nobel
The £639,000 Nobel prize for literature has gone to a Hungarian-Jewish former concentration camp inmate whose novels resolutely refuse to portray the Holocaust - or life in general - as a moral issue. The works of Imre Kertesz show Hitler's extermination of more than six million Jews...

Holocaust writer wins Nobel Prize
This year's Nobel Prize for literature has been won by Hungarian author and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertesz, whose autobiographical novels explore how individuals can survive when subjected to "barbaric" social forces.

Bucking trends earns Nobel prize
Two economists who challenged the dominance of rational "economic man" as the basis for studying the subject were today named as joint winners of the Nobel Prize.

'Revolutionary' chemists awarded Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize for chemistry has today been awarded to three chemists who revolutionised the study of large molecules, such as proteins, paving the way for better understanding of life processes and huge advances in pharmaceuticals.

Ghostwriters Scandal Haunts Spanish Novelist's Nobel Reputation
A literary storm broke in Spain yesterday as one of the country's most distinguished authors - the Nobel prizewinner, Camilo Jose Cela - was accused of regularly using ghostwriters for most of his career. The allegations made by Tomas Garcia Yebra include not just the recent works of Cela...

Three physicists share Nobel Prize for cosmic discoveries
Three astrophysicists - two Americans and a Japanese - share this year's Nobel Prize for physics for their work in detecting cosmic neutrinos and cosmic X-rays.

Nobel prize for British and US scientists who used worms to decode the book of life
The discovery of the myriad little deaths which lead to life brought the most coveted prize in world medicine to two Britons and an American yesterday.

Nobel Laureate and Critic of the Imf
Interview: Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel prize-winning economist, talks about his attack on the IMF. For a man who has provoked a collective temper tantrum at the highest levels of the International Monetary Fund, Joseph Stiglitz is looking remarkably relaxed.

Naipaul Lets Rip at 'banality' of Indian Women Writers
Nobel prize winner's short fuse explodes during debate on colonialism and gender oppression.

Günter Grass Breaks Taboo on Refugees
Has Günter Grass, the literary guru of the European left, undergone a sudden hardening of the arteries? Germany's Nobel prize-winning novelist has pounded the hustings for the Social Democrats and stood up for liberal and radical causes in almost every major public debate in his...