2019 Nobel Prize

Dressed in dhoti and sari, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo receive Nobel Prize in Economics

Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo won the Nobel Prize in Economics along with American economist Michael Kremer for "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty". 

Dec 11, 2019, 07:58 AM IST

2019 Nobel prize in chemistry awarded to John B Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham, Akira Yoshino for work on lithium-ion batteries

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm announced on Wednesday that John B Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin, M Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University and Akira Yoshino of Meijo University will receive equal shares of the 9 million Swedish kronor (£74o,000) prize.

Oct 09, 2019, 16:09 PM IST

2019 Nobel prize in physics awarded to James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for research on cosmology and exoplanets

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm awarded half of the 9 million Swedish kronor (£740,000) prize to Canadian scientist Peebles for his theoretical discoveries about the evolution of the universe.

Oct 08, 2019, 15:42 PM IST