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U.S. President Donald Trump has been nominated again for the Nobel Peace Prize. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Trump on Monday that he recommended him for the prestigious award.
Research by Weizmann Institute scientist and Israel Prize winner saved 'countless lives,' was basis for technology sold for ...
Prominent Republicans from Vice President JD Vance to Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri have floated policies aimed not just at boosting birth rates, a key conservative goal in recent years, but also ...
In 2023, Claudia Goldin (New York, 78 years old) won the Nobel Prize in Economics in recognition of her studies on the underrepresentation of women in the labor market and on the gender wage gap, ...
For instance, Sir Andre Geim, who won an Ig Nobel in 2000 for “levitating a frog” using magnets, also won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 for his groundbreaking work on graphene. To date, he is the ...
A disordered landscape of any dimension would “localize” a particle. The work went essentially unread for years, although it would eventually help secure him a share of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics ...
In an elegant ceremony Dec. 10 in Stockholm, Sweden, immunologist Drew Weissman ’81, GSAS MA’81, P’15, H’23, and his research partner Katalin Karikó, H’23, received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for ...
Now, usually in these episodes, we’re talking about a cover story, but in this episode, we’re actually looking at our stories on some of the 2023 Nobel Prizes and going behind the scenes on ...
Their prize is unusual. The only previous scientist to have won a Nobel prize in the context of vaccination was Max Theiler, who discovered the attenuated strain of the yellow-fever virus which ...
Drew Weissman ’81, GSAS MA’81, P’15, H’23, whose pioneering work in messenger RNA led to the lifesaving vaccinations that altered the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, has won the Nobel Prize in ...
The trick was in adding long fatty acid chains that grabbed onto albumin — the most abundant protein found in the blood — allowing the GLP-1 lookalike to hide from enzymes that would chop it up.