STOCKHOLM,OCTO 9: The Nobel economics prize was awarded Monday to Claudia Goldin, a professor at Harvard University, for advancing understanding of women’s labor market outcomes. Goldin is only the third woman to win the prize, which was announced by Hans Ellegren, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm. “Understanding women’s role in […]Continue Reading
STOCKHOLM,OCTO 5: Jon Fosse, a master of spare Nordic writing in a sprawling body of work ranging from plays to novels and children’s books, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that “give voice to the unsayable.” Anders Olsson, chair of the Nobel literature committee, said Fosse’s work is rooted “in the […]Continue Reading
STOCKHOLM,OCTO 2: 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. The pair, who had been tipped as favourites, were honoured for “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the […]Continue Reading
