A year later, UI professors' Nobel fame is undimmed
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Don't call him Sir Anthony Leggett just yet. Queen Elizabeth II put the University of Illinois physics professor and Nobel Prize winner, a British native, on her birthday knighthood list this summer, but he ...
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By Simon Usborne  In 2005, when Nicholas Negroponte of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced his vision, experts queued up to say it couldn't be done, and that the professor's plan was little more than a well-intentioned dream.
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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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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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Rusi P. Taleyarkhan has been cleared of research misconduct by Purdue University, but questions remain.
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American researchers Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck shared the 2004 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their work on the sense of smell &#151; showing how, for example, a person can smell a lilac in the spring and recall it in the winter.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison research on the deadly Ebola virus was conducted for a year in a less-secure laboratory than required, until the National Institutes of Health alerted the school to the problem.
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Austrian novelist Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 7. True to the mood of despair cast in her novels (which include The Piano Teacher, Lust, and Women as Lovers), Jelinek, 57, said that she &quot;can&#39;t stand&quot; the attention
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An American and a Norwegian were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday for research into business cycles that changed how central banks conducted monetary policy in a number of countries over the past 10 years.
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Their discoveries may be hard for many to comprehend, but this year's Nobel Prize winners still have to explain what they did and how they did it.
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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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Americans are expected by many this year to continue their five-year running domination of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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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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James D. Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for helping decipher DNA, apologized âunreservedlyâ Thursday for comments reported this week suggesting that black people, over all, are not as intelligent as whites.
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The latest in a long year of literary scandals just isn't that scandalous
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TOKYO A visiting professor at Northwestern University is the winner of one of this year's Kyoto Prizes -- a Japanese award for achievement in the arts and sciences.
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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