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Egypt
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Society
8/18/2024 6:43:18 PM
A trove of unpublished documents obtained by Ahram Online (AO) from the Nobel Academy reveal early Egyptian efforts to nominate an Egyptian for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939.
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Life & Style
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Style
8/18/2024 1:27:40 PM
Saul Perlmutter, professor of Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and the 2011 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, talks about his latest book: Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense.
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World
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International
8/8/2024 11:17:20 AM
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus was flying back to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead a caretaker government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Sheikh Hasina.
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World
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International
8/6/2024 10:23:05 PM
Bangladesh's Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus has been tapped to lead an interim government after the ouster of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, the country's presidency announced early Wednesday.
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World
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International
8/6/2024 10:44:08 AM
A key organizer of Bangladesh’s student protests Tuesday called for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus to be named as the head of a new interim government, a day after longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country after weeks of deadly unrest.
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World
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Africa
7/17/2024 4:26:10 PM
Writers Union of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (WUAALA) has celebrated the 90th birthday of the renowned Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, through an initiative titled "100 Soyinka Days."
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Life & Style
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Health
7/16/2024 2:24:21 PM
Professor Anne L’Huillier, the fifth woman to win the Nobel Prize (2023) in physics in 117 years, spoke to Ahram Online about attosecond science during the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting in Germany.
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Egypt
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Society
7/11/2024 3:07:22 PM
Under the title “Cables, Novels and Nobels,” the Journey of Diplomacy and Literature symposium discusses the writings of Egyptian and Italian diplomats and Nobel laureates.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/8/2024 1:03:14 PM
Professor Donna Strickland, the third woman ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, spoke to Ahram Online about the applications of her research, the current challenges she faces, and why she is advocating for fundamental research studies.
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World
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International
6/18/2024 3:37:01 PM
An Iranian court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to a year in prison for "propaganda against the state", the jailed activist's lawyer said on Tuesday.
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World
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International
10/9/2023 3:14:51 PM
The Nobel prize in Economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for research that has helped understand the role of women in the labour market.
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World
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Region
10/6/2023 12:57:09 PM
Iranian campaigner Narges Mohammadi has for decades campaigned on the most sensitive issues in the Islamic republic, opposing pillars of the clerical system including capital punishment and the obligatory hijab, and defiantly refusing to give up her campaigning even behind bars.
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World
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Region
10/6/2023 12:23:33 PM
Imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for fighting the oppression of women in Iran.
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World
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International
10/5/2023 2:37:24 PM
The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Norwegian writer Jon Fosse for “his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable,” according to the Swedish Academy.
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World
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International
10/4/2023 2:07:54 PM
Three scientists based in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their work on quantum dots — tiny particles just a few atoms in diameter that can release very bright colored light and whose applications in every day life include electronics and medical imaging.
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World
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International
10/4/2023 11:34:50 AM
Swedish media outlets on Wednesday published what they reported were the seemingly leaked names of this year's Nobel chemistry prize recipients, hours before the laureates were to be announced.
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World
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International
10/3/2023 1:20:33 PM
The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Tuesday to three scientists who look at electrons in atoms during the tiniest of split seconds.
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World
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International
10/3/2023 12:03:00 PM
Nobels season is resuming on Tuesday with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm awarding the prize in physics.
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World
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Africa
10/2/2023 5:48:43 PM
DR Congo's Denis Mukwege, a surgical gynecologist who won the 2018 Nobel Prize, announced a presidential bid Monday ahead of elections in the central African nation planned for December.
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World
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International
10/2/2023 1:19:15 PM
Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines.
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