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The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to one individual and two organisations which advocate human rights and civil liberty.The recipients were the Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski (born 1962), the Russian human rights organisation Memorial (founded in 1989) and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties (founded in 2007). [1]
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". [1][2] It was announced by the Swedish Academy on 6 October 2022. [3][4][5] Ernaux was the 16th French writer – the first ...
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to the Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo (born 1955) "for his research in the field of genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution". [2][3][4] It was announced by Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska ...
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki reflects a widely held fear that the planet has never been closer to nuclear war.
The 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was divided equally between the American economists Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip H. Dybvig "for research on banks and financial crises" on 10 October 2022. [1][2] The award was established in 1968 by an endowment "in perpetuity" from Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank ...
Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women’s rights and democracy, and against the death penalty.
This was the first Nobel Prize awarded to a Ukrainian citizen or organization. [22] She was awarded a doctor honoris causa from Université catholique de Louvain on 16 February 2023. [23] [24] Summary. 2022 – Right Livelihood Award; 2021 – Ukraine's candidate to the UN Committee against Torture [10]
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of tiny clusters of atoms known as quantum dots, widely used ...