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Washington (AFP) - American poet Louise Gluck, winner of the Nobel prize for her distinctively austere writing that touched on themes of mythology and the universal human experience, has died, a Yale University spokeswoman told AFP on Friday. She was 80. The New York native most recently taught at Yale as a poetry professor. She died of cancer, The New York Times reported, citing friend and former Yale colleague Richard Deming, on Friday at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gluck was the 2020 Nobel laureate in literature, the 16th woman to win the award. Her idols included other winners of...
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Stockholm (AFP) - The Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for research that has helped bring understanding to the role of women in the labour market. The 77-year-old Harvard professor, who is the third woman to be awarded the prestigious economics prize, was given the nod "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes," the jury said. The Nobel is a "very important prize, not just for me, but for the many people who work in this field and who are trying to understand why there is so much change, but there are still large...
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Stockholm (AFP) - The Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for her research helping understand the role of women in the labour market. The Harvard professor, who is the third woman to be awarded the prestigious economics prize, was given the nod "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes," the jury said. "Her research reveals the causes of change, as well as the main sources of the remaining gender gap," it added in a statement. Globally, about 50 percent of women participate in the labour market compared to 80 percen...
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Oslo (AFP) - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran, many of whom are removing their hijabs despite a harsh crackdown. Mohammadi's award comes after a wave of protests swept Iran following the death in custody a year ago of a young Iranian Kurd, Mahsa Amini, arrested for violating Iran's strict dress rules for women. A 51-year-old journalist and activist, Mohammadi has spent much of the past two decades in and out of jail for her campaign against the mandatory hijab for women and the death penalt...
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Washington (AFP) - This year's Nobel Chemistry winners are pioneers in the nanoworld. During the 1980s, Alexi Ekimov, 78, and Louis Brus, 80, working independently and on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, succeeding in creating "quantum dots" -- nanoparticles that are found today in next generation TV screens and are being used to illuminate tumors in the body. A decade later, 62-year-old Moungi Bawendi revolutionized methods to manufacture them with precision and at scale, paving the way for their applications. Here's the rundown on the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners. PerseveranceBa...
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Washington (AFP) - Talk about bouncing back. MIT professor Moungi Bawendi is a co-winner of this year's Nobel chemistry prize for helping develop "quantum dots" -- nanoparticles that are now found in next generation TV screens and help illuminate tumors within the body. But as an undergraduate, he flunked his very first chemistry exam, recalling that the experience nearly "destroyed" him. The 62-year-old of Tunisian and French heritage excelled at science throughout high school, without ever having to break a sweat. But when he arrived at Harvard University as an undergraduate in the late 197...
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Stockholm (AFP) - A trio of US-based researchers on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing tiny "quantum dots" used to illuminate TVs and lamps, hours after a prematurely released statement revealed their names. French-born Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus of the United States and Russian-born Alexei Ekimov were named as the three winners. They brought advances on tiny particles that "now spread their light from televisions and LED lamps, and can also guide surgeons when they remove tumour tissue", the jury said. But a rare leak led to the winners' names being mistakenly sent to medi...
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Washington (AFP) - From developing a one-and-done coronavirus shot to overcoming misinformation and global vaccine inequity, Nobel prize winner Drew Weissman says that at 64, he's only "speeding up." The University of Pennsylvania immunologist was awarded the biggest accolade in medicine on Monday for his pioneering research on messenger RNA, the technology behind Covid-19 vaccines that changed the course of the pandemic. "What happened is I got a cryptic text from Kati around four in the morning," he said in an interview with AFP, referring to his old friend, collaborator and Nobel co-winner ...
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Washington (AFP) - Drew Weissman's decades of research into mRNA technology paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines, finally earning a Nobel prize for the physician-scientist. The 64-year-old University of Pennsylvania immunologist, who won the Nobel Medicine Prize along with long-time collaborator Katalin Kariko on Monday, is far from done. His next quests include, among others, developing a vaccine against all future coronaviruses. "There have been three (coronavirus) pandemics or epidemics in the past 20 years," Weissman told AFP recently, referring to the original SARS virus, MERS and Covid-1...
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Stockholm (AFP) - Researchers Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for groundbreaking Covid-19 vaccines. The pair, who had been tipped as favourites, "contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times", the jury said. The World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic in March 2020 and the first mRNA vaccines were approved for use against the illness in December that year. Billions of Pfizer/BioNTech and Modern...
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