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Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian women's rights campaigner imprisoned by Iran who won the Nobel Peace Prize, on October 6, 2023. (AFP/ Narges Mohammadi Foundation/ File)
February 11, 2026, 11:29 pm
Nobel committee calls on Iran to free Peace Prize laureate Mohammadi
Panel cites ‘reliable and well‑documented sources inside Iran’ that women’s rights activist was violently apprehended in December and is subject to life-threatening abuse
By Reuters
A demonstrator carries a mock Nobel Peace Prize depicting US President Donald Trump, at a rally at Tel Aviv's Hostages Square, October 11, 2025. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)
October 12, 2025, 10:42 am
Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado says Trump ‘certainly deserves’ next year’s award
‘He does deserve to be recognized,’ says Venezuelan activist María Corina Machado, as ‘in only nine months, so many conflicts have been solved or prevented’
By ToI Staff
FILE - Hungary's Laszlo Krasznahorkai poses for photographers in London, May 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
October 9, 2025, 4:27 pm
Hungarian writer whose father hid Jewish roots is awarded Nobel prize in literature
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, 71, given prestigious honor for ‘compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Photos of (L-R) British physicist John Clarke at the University of California, USA, French physicist Michel Devoret (University of California and Yale) and US physicist John Martinis (University of California) are seen on a screen during a press conference on the awarding of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 7, 2025. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)
October 8, 2025, 3:26 am
Trio win Nobel prize for revealing quantum physics in action
John Clarke, Michel Devoret, John Martinis awarded for developing ‘next generation’ of quantum technology, ubiquitous in everyday electronics; ‘I’m completely stunned,’ says Clarke
By Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander
A screen showing the photos of Mary E Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology, at the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institutet, in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 6, 2025. (Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency via AP)
October 6, 2025, 3:55 pm
Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to 3 scientists for work on immune system
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell of the US and Shimon Sakaguchi of Japan worked to identify the body’s ‘security guard’ cells, opening door to new treatments for autoimmune disorders
By KOSTYA MANENKOV, STEFANIE DAZIO and LAURAN NEERGAARD
US President Donald Trump walks to speak with reporters before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, on September 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
October 3, 2025, 8:46 pm
Trump casts shadow over Nobels as prize-awarding body warns academic freedom at risk
VP of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says US administration’s moves on universities, research have ‘devastating effect’: Academic freedom ‘one of the pillars of democratic system’
By Reuters
Left to right: Aaron Ciechanover at the Technion, February 2018. (Wikipedia); Avram Hershko at the Hebrew University, June 7, 2009. (Rebecca Zeffert/Flash90); Ada Yonath, April 21 2010 (Moshe Shai/Flash90); David Harel at the Knesset, December 10, 2024 (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90).
February 12, 2025, 10:45 pm
Nobel winners offer to nominate Trump for Peace Prize if he gets all hostages freed
In letter, 3 Israeli laureates and the president of the Israel Academy of Sciences tell the US president they ‘unreservedly support’ his call for the release of all captives
By ToI Staff
South Korean author Han Kang poses for the media during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, May 24, 2016. (Lee Jin-man/AP)
October 10, 2024, 3:24 pm
Nobel Prize in literature goes to South Korean author Han Kang
Fourth of this year’s awards recognizes writer for her ‘intense prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Johan Åqvist, member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, Hans Ellegren, Permanent Secretary and Heiner Linke, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry award this years Nobel Prize in Chemistry to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M Jumper at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 9, 2024. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)
October 9, 2024, 4:44 pm
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to scientists who predicted proteins’ shapes using AI
David Baker, of Seattle’s University of Washington, produced ‘mind-blowing’ designs for novel proteins, using breakthrough tech by Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, John Jumper
By Daniel Niemann and Mike Corder
A bust of the Nobel Prize founder Alfred Nobel is seen before the Nobel awards ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2023. (Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP)
October 4, 2024, 3:06 pm
Nobel prizes to coincide with Oct. 7 anniversary; expert urges withholding peace award
Think tank head says move would draw attention to wars in Mideast, Sudan, Ukraine; peace prize has been withheld 19 times, most recently in 1972
By Mark Lewis
Economics Nobel prize winner Prof. Daniel Kahneman speaks at a conference in Jerusalem on June 20, 2013. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)
March 27, 2024, 10:03 pm
Nobel-winning behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman, who upended his field, dies at 90
Israeli-American psychologist and Holocaust survivor proved the irrationality of decision-making, arguing people’s mental biases often lead them to act against their own interests
By Charlie Summers
Illustrative: Bidder Ole Bjorn Fausa, of Norway, holds the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize medal in Baltimore, March 27, 2014, the second Nobel Peace Prize ever to come to auction. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
January 31, 2024, 7:01 pm
Israeli-Palestinian peace orgs among nominees for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize
Committee keeps nominations secret, but Free University Amsterdam says it has tapped organizations EcoPeace, Women Wage Peace and Women of the Sun amid Gaza war
By Mark Lewis
Illustrative - A protester adds a portrait of a hostage to a wall of such posters during a rally for supporters and relatives of Israeli hostages held by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza since October 7, in Tel Aviv on December 23, 2023 (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
January 9, 2024, 2:49 pm
Nobel laureates pen plea to international organizations demanding action on hostages
Letter is accompanied by an updated, detailed report on hostage health based on medical records and testimony of released hostages about horrific conditions in Gaza
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Norwegian author Jon Fosse poses for a photo as his book Septologien is launched at Det Norske Teatret in Oslo, September 6, 2019. (Hakon Mosvold Larsen /NTB Scanpix via AP, File)
October 5, 2023, 3:12 pm
Jon Fosse, Norwegian master of spare Nordic writing, wins Nobel Prize in Literature
Panel hails 2022 Booker Prize finalist for ‘innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable’; one of his country’s most-performed dramatists says he’s ‘overwhelmed’
By david keyton, Mike Corder and Jill Lawless
Winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Physics (from left): Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier. (Nobelprize.org)
October 3, 2023, 3:11 pm
3 scientists share physics Nobel for work observing electrons in fractions of seconds
Researchers at US, German and Swedish universities praised for method exploring tiny speedsters zipping around atoms, yielding a ‘blurry’ glimpse that opens up whole new sciences
By david keyton, Seth Borenstein and Mike Corder
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