Tag: Nobel Prize
‘Simply put, the journalist must change the world for the better’
Last Monday’s edition of Novaya Gazeta was perhaps one of the most festive ever. It was the first edition following the announcement by the Nobel Prize Committee that transformed the newspaper’s editor, Dmitry Muratov, into an...
Former Hebrew University professor wins Nobel Memorial Prize in economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Joshua Angrist was awarded the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel on Monday for his “methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.”
Angrist,...
Jewish American shares Nobel Prize in economics
A Jewish American economist was one of two winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in economics for studying how auctions work, announced the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday.
Paul Milgrom, along with American...
American Jewish poet Louise Glück wins Nobel Prize in Literature
American Jewish poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” said the Nobel Committee on Thursday.
She is just the...
Jewish scientist among three recipients of Nobel Prize for medicine
A Jewish scientist was one of three professors jointly awarded on Monday the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Harvey J. Alter, along with Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice, received the prestigious prize for...
August 15, 1896: Gerty Radnitz Corim, the first Jewish woman to receive a Nobel...
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori, the first Jewish woman to receive a Nobel Prize (and the third woman after Marie Curie and Irene Joliot-Curie), was born on in Prague on this date in 1896. Her...