The award of a Nobel Prize in physics to Donna Strickland is an opportunity to build support for women in science, says one female physics professor.
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William Nordhaus showed that the market offers the best chance for preventing global catastrophe form climate change.
We need action to increase the number of black scientists if we’re ever to see a black Nobel winner.
Paul Romer and William Nordhaus both developed the field of economic growth.
Progress has been made toward gender parity in science fields. But explicit and implicit barriers still hold women back from advancing in the same numbers as men to the upper reaches of STEM academia.
The prize recognises that violence against women has become a weapon of war.
What Strickland achieved is impressive. But it isn’t a sign that the patriarchy is being smashed.
Donna Strickland is the first woman in 55 years to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Let’s hope the next such award to a woman won’t take so long.
The Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to three scientists for the inventions of optical tweezers – in which two laser beams can hold a tiny object – and a method for creating powerful lasers.
James Allison and Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for encouraging immune cells to attack cancer. See how their work has revolutionized cancer therapies and medicine.
In a remarkably short period of time, drugs that harness the power of the immune system, have been used to successfully treat many cancers.
This year’s Nobel Prize for literature was nixed because of a sex scandal. Other Nobels have neglected key contributors. Should all prizes be cancelled while criteria for winning is reassessed?
Maude Abbott’s discoveries on pediatric heart defects were groundbreaking, saved countless lives and have stood the test of time for more than 80 years. It’s time she received her due credit.
Born in Italy in 1909, Levi-Montalcini avoided being transported to Auschwitz as a young woman and rose to prominence as a neurobiologist. She was a co-recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Nobel prize winning author Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was as hard on himself as on others.
The long and turbulent history of the Nobel Prize for Literature continues.
It’s 65 years since the structure of DNA was first published, but the woman who made that possible remains unknown to many people.
Allegations of sexual harassment have shaken the organisation that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Africa has recorded a tremendous growth in its output of academic engineering research over the past 20 years. Greater collaboration can increase this growth even more.
We are observing two new phenomena. On one hand doubt is shed on the quality of entire scientific fields or sub-fields. On the other this doubt is played out in the open, in the media and blogosphere.
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Emeritus Robert Reford Professor and Professor of Medicine, McGill University
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Professor of Nuclear Physics, Michigan State University
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Laureate Professor Emeritus, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor and Lincoln Professor of Ethics in Public Affairs, Arizona State University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of Chemistry, Connecticut College
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Cardiff University
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Head of School for Physics, University of Sydney
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Professor at Division of History of Ideas and Sciences, Lund University
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra