Tag: nobel prize
Economists are more like storytellers than scientists – don’t let the...
Carolin Benack, Duke University
When you listen to an economist, chances are you’ll hear a lot of statistics.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s speech at the...
Why don’t more women win science Nobels?
Mary K. Feeney, Arizona State University
All of the 2019 Nobel Prizes in science were awarded to men.
That’s a return to business as usual, after...
People who win big prizes shouldn’t get taxed when they give...
Ellen P. Aprill, Loyola Law School Los Angeles
When former President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he didn’t keep the approximately...
Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved...
Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University
Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms –...
Paul Romer and William Nordhaus – why they won the 2018...
Sergey V. Popov, Cardiff University
William Nordhaus and Paul Romer have been awarded the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (colloquially known as the...
Why more women don’t win science Nobels
Mary K. Feeney, Arizona State University
One of the 2018 Nobel Prizes in physics went to Donna Strickland, a major accomplishment for any scientist. Yet...
2018 Nobel Prize for physics goes to tools made from light...
Todd Adams, Florida State University
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Breast cancer risk higher in western parts of time zones; is...
Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, University of Connecticut
The 2017 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to three researchers “for their discoveries of molecular...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
