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Nobel Prize winner saw his work confirmed by experiments at the Cern particle accelerator
An accidental invader of economics, his insights changed the discipline forever
American scholar became famous for his work on growth theory in the 1950s
The winner of the Nobel Prize in economic sciences has explored expectations, incentives and constraints
Harvard professor has advanced understanding of women’s labour market outcomes
The Norwegian is awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature
Award given for her ‘fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights’
The author was lauded for his haunting stories that ‘give voice to the unsayable’
Tiny semiconductor materials have wide-ranging uses in electronics, from display screens to medical technology
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier created ultra-short light pulses with applications in materials science
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman praised for role in ‘unprecedented rate of development’ of coronavirus jabs
The new Nobel laureates proved Einstein was not always right
Bernanke, Diamond and Dybvig have taught lessons about bank runs that have been absorbed since the financial crisis
Former chief of US central bank shares award with two other economists for research into financial crises
Laureates praised for ‘outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power’
A selection of interviews and reviews from our archives to celebrate an oeuvre defined by ‘courage and clinical acuity’
Writer, 82, is best known for works exploring female sexuality and the lives of women
‘Functional’ technique of putting molecules together is transforming medical R&D and manufacturing
Award shared for work to prove theory of entangled particles, an idea Einstein once dismissed as ‘spooky action’
Svante Pääbo’s sequencing of the Neanderthal’s genome boosts understanding of evolution
Big changes are afoot with many writing awards closing — but maybe we don’t need so many
David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens discerned crisp causal relationships from fuzzy data
Trio challenged ideas, including work to show that raising the minimum wage need not depress jobs
Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov recognised for ‘courageous fight’ for press freedom
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