Secrecy, Speculation Surround Nobels
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From Associated Press October 01, 2006 2:18 PM EDT STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Finn who helped mediate peace in Indonesia is tipped to win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, while bookmakers favor a Turkish novelist for ...Comment
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Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott will share the $US1.36 million Nobel prize for economics. Their 1977 research on the &quot;time consistency problem&quot; described how policy makers often
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Some literary-minded bloggers seemed a little piqued at comments on their hobby made by Doris Lessing in her Nobel lecture this month.
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While Nobel Prizes are given for past performance, other types of inducement prizes are intended to spur innovation. Do they do the job?
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NEW YORK - As Israel captured its first Nobel prize in science this week, Jews worldwide kvelled over the recognition of excellence in a discipline that has long been a hallmark of the Jewish state.
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While Nobel prizes are given for past performance, other types of inducement prizes are intended to spur innovation. Do they do the job?
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Will it be an Arab, a woman, a poet? The buzz mounted as the literary world played its annual guessing game of who would win the coveted Nobel Prize in literature this year, but no single author emerged a clear ...
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Judges who award the Nobel prize for literature have long been suspected of courting the controversial or obscure just for the sake of it, but the head of the selection panel said merit is the sole consideration.
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The committee that bestows the Nobel Peace Prize could use the honor to draw focus to great threats to world, such as weapons of mass destruction or AIDS. Members may also try to jump-start a flagging peace effort. Or, as has happened so often in the past, they might just surprise everybody with a dark horse winner.
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It could be tiny fibers that may one day replace steel, or catalysts that have led to environmentally friendly plastics. Guessing the winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry has often stumped researchers and pundits alike.
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The Nobel Prize in physics is like a scientific riddle: speculation about who could win equals the sheer complexity of the work examined for the coveted award.
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The winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Oct. 12, the Swedish Academy said Friday, keeping the literay world guessing for nearly another week.
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Q&amp;A: The Nobel Prize winner  -  and runner-up for TIME Person of the Year  -  talks about why it's hard to celebrate his honor
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The question comes up every year: Does the Nobel Peace Prize matter? This year&#39;s winner, Wangari Maathai of Kenya, is living proof the 103-year-old prize is an honour some people richly deserve.
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Until this morning, not many non-Germans knew that a woman called Elfriede Jelinek existed. This state of unknowing underwent a dramatic change with an oracular announcement: The Nobel Prize in Literature
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The Nobel Foundation said Wednesday it will begin announcing the 2004 Nobel Prize winners on Oct.
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The guessing game over who will take home the world's most coveted awards ends this week with the announcement of the 2004 Nobel Prize winners.