Tag: nobel prize
How an Alberta researcher’s discovery of hepatitis C led to the...
John Bergeron, McGill University
This year, the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to virologists Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice and...
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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EXPLORING NATURE
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
