https://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/tag/nobel-prizes/RSS feed for Nobel PrizesenWed, 22 Apr 2026 16:15:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bob-dylans-original-typewritten-draft-lyrics-for-im-not-there-have-been-rediscovered-after-more-than-half-a-century-180988592/For decades, eager fans could only hear the obscure song on bootleg vinyl recordings. The draft lyrics, which were found inside a first-edition copy of Allen Ginsberg poetry, just sold at auction for $6,800Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:15:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bob-dylans-original-typewritten-draft-lyrics-for-im-not-there-have-been-rediscovered-after-more-than-half-a-century-180988592/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/maria-corina-machado-venezuelas-iron-lady-wins-nobel-peace-prize-180987499/Machado, who leads the Vente Venezuela opposition party against President Nicolás Maduro, was lauded for her "tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela"Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:17:28 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/maria-corina-machado-venezuelas-iron-lady-wins-nobel-peace-prize-180987499/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-hungarian-author-once-wrote-400-page-book-with-single-period-now-laszlo-krasznahorkai-is-nobel-prize-winner-180987492/The 71-year-old recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature is known for his long, winding sentencesThu, 09 Oct 2025 17:38:58 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-hungarian-author-once-wrote-400-page-book-with-single-period-now-laszlo-krasznahorkai-is-nobel-prize-winner-180987492/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/architects-of-new-kind-of-molecular-structure-win-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-180987481/Metal-organic frameworks can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny space—enabling advances that could help humans fight climate change and tackle other challengesWed, 08 Oct 2025 19:04:37 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/architects-of-new-kind-of-molecular-structure-win-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-180987481/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-scientists-receive-nobel-prize-in-physics-for-pioneering-work-that-put-quantum-mechanics-on-a-human-scale-180987471/The trio’s research in the 1980s demonstrated a bizarre quantum phenomenon in a way people could see and holdTue, 07 Oct 2025 18:51:02 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-scientists-receive-nobel-prize-in-physics-for-pioneering-work-that-put-quantum-mechanics-on-a-human-scale-180987471/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trio-of-researchers-awarded-nobel-prize-for-groundbreaking-discovery-of-immune-cells-that-prevent-autoimmune-disease-180987452/Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi’s research revealed a new class of cells shaking up scientists’ understanding of the human immune systemMon, 06 Oct 2025 18:22:48 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trio-of-researchers-awarded-nobel-prize-for-groundbreaking-discovery-of-immune-cells-that-prevent-autoimmune-disease-180987452/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ig-nobel-prizes-honor-fingernails-painted-cows-and-cacio-e-pepe-in-a-celebration-of-strange-science-180987381/Ten research projects earned awards for achievements that have made people "laugh, then think"Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:56:49 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ig-nobel-prizes-honor-fingernails-painted-cows-and-cacio-e-pepe-in-a-celebration-of-strange-science-180987381/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/james-webb-telescope-confirms-the-universe-is-expanding-faster-than-we-thought-and-scientists-still-dont-know-why-180985622/The findings suggest that astronomers’ widely accepted cosmology models might be missing something—meaning the longstanding mystery known as the “Hubble tension” continuesFri, 13 Dec 2024 19:35:19 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/james-webb-telescope-confirms-the-universe-is-expanding-faster-than-we-thought-and-scientists-still-dont-know-why-180985622/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/on-this-day-in-1906-a-nobel-prize-was-awarded-to-an-american-for-the-first-time-for-ending-a-war-on-the-other-side-of-the-globe-180985564/It was immediately controversial that President Theodore Roosevelt, famous for vigorous military interventions, was the first statesman to win the Peace PrizeTue, 10 Dec 2024 10:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/on-this-day-in-1906-a-nobel-prize-was-awarded-to-an-american-for-the-first-time-for-ending-a-war-on-the-other-side-of-the-globe-180985564/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nobel-peace-prize-goes-to-japanese-atomic-bomb-survivors-who-fight-for-nuclear-disarmament-180985256/The grassroots organization, Nihon Hidankyo, was lauded for "demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again"Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:46:59 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nobel-peace-prize-goes-to-japanese-atomic-bomb-survivors-who-fight-for-nuclear-disarmament-180985256/