Articles tagged as Nobel Prizes | Smithsonian Magazine

CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology has the power to improve the lives of millions of people.

The award-winning researchers, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, harnessed the power of gene-editing technology and revolutionized biology

October 7, 2020

The contributions of the three Nobel laureates proved that black holes exist and unveiled the nature of these supermassive objects.

These Nobel laureates helped discover and describe the mysterious cosmic voids in our universe

October 6, 2020

The discoveries of these three Nobel laureates “saved millions of lives worldwide,” one Nobel committee member said.

The contributions of these Nobel laureates helped identify, test, and treat hepatitis C

October 5, 2020

Stadshuskällaren is a restaurant located in Stockholm Sweden that serves historic menus from almost a century of Nobel Banquets.

This Restaurant in Sweden Offers Every Meal Served at the Nobel Banquet Since 1922

At Stadshuskällaren, in the basement of Stockholm’s City Hall, diners eat like Nobel Prize winners

December 9, 2019

Nash won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994

John Nash’s Nobel Prize Sells for $735,000

Best known as the subject of “A Beautiful Mind,” Nash made pioneering advances in the study of game theory

October 28, 2019

Olga Tokarczuk won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, while Peter Handke was awarded this year's prize

Nobel Prizes in Literature Awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke

Last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature was postponed following a sexual assault scandal involving members of the Swedish Academy

October 10, 2019

John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino

The award honors three scientists whose contributions led to the rechargeable battery that makes our modern world possible

October 10, 2019

La Bodeguita del Medio, where Hemingway preferred to drink his mojitos.

Follow Ernest Hemingway’s Footsteps Through Havana

Sixty-five years after nabbing a Nobel, many of Papa Hemingway’s favorite haunts are still open to the public

October 10, 2019

James Peebles, Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz

Half goes to cosmologist James Peebles for work on cosmic background and dark matter and half goes to the team that discovered the first exoplanet

October 9, 2019

Three medical scientists will share the award for further explaining how the body responds to oxygen abundance

October 7, 2019

Uhlenbeck's work on minimal surfaces was instrumental to the foundation of the mathematical field of geometric analysis

Karen Uhlenbeck Is the First Woman to Win Math’s Top Prize

The Abel Prize honoree was recognized for “the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics”

March 20, 2019

Denis Mukwege (left) and Nadia Murad (right) are this year's Nobel Peace Prize recipients

Two Activists Fighting Against Sexual Violence in Wartime Are This Year’s Nobel Peace Prize Recipients

Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad are recognized for working to bring healing to victims, accountability to perpetrators and greater visibility to the public

October 5, 2018

James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo win the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their foundational work on cancer immunotherapy.

What Makes the Nobel-Winning Breakthroughs in Immunotherapy So Revolutionary

Targeting the immune system to fight cancer could be the first step to defeating the disease

October 3, 2018

From L to R: Frances H. Arnold was recognized for her work in the directed evolution of enzymes, while George P. Smith and Sir Gregory Winter were honored for the phage display of peptides and antibodies

Frances Arnold, George Smith and Gregory Winter employed principles seen in evolution to develop proteins that tackle global chemical problems

October 3, 2018

Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland photographed in her lab.

The Nobels Notoriously Overlook Women Physicists. Donna Strickland’s Win Puts That Disparity into the Spotlight

Nobel committee recognizes three physicists in total, all of whom contributed to advancing laser technology

October 2, 2018

An illustration of the winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: James Allison (left) and Tasuku Honjo (right).

The award recognizes work that figured out how to encourage the immune system to fight cancer

October 1, 2018

A postage stamp printed in Norway showing an image of Alfred Nobel, circa 2001.

Commentary

Should the Nobel Prizes Take a Year Off?

An award designed to go to those who benefit all humanity has a history of prejudice and controversy

September 20, 2018

The satirical awards celebrate some of the strangest scientific research

September 14, 2018

Hemingway photographed in 1956, the year he completed “A Room on the Garden Side.”

“A Room On the Garden Side” was written in 1956 and takes place during the liberation of Paris in 1944

August 3, 2018

Marie and Pierre Curie in the laboratory.

Three Quirky Facts About Marie Curie

In honor of her 150th birthday, let’s review a few lesser-known pieces of her personal history

November 7, 2017