https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/rss/524302/feed The latest news and top stories on Alfred Nobel. A Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer and industrialist, he is widely recognised for inventing dynamite in 1867, a safer explosive that revolutionised mining and construction. Nobel held 355 patents globally, contributing to various fields including artificial silk and leather. He was a successful businessman, owning the Bofors armaments factory and establishing numerous explosives plants across Europe. His profound legacy stems from his will,... en https://assets-v2.i-scmp.com/production/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse American-born economists ⁠Robert ⁠Hall ⁠and Michael Woodford have won the 2026 Nobel economics prize for their work on how monetary and fiscal policy can help stabilise fluctuations in the economy. Hall, 83, is affiliated with Stanford University in California, and Woodford, 70, with Columbia University in New York. The announcement was made in Sweden’s capital Stockholm, with the winners honoured “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation”. One of their key insights is that... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370605/robert-hall-michael-woodford-win-2026-nobel-prize-economics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370605/robert-hall-michael-woodford-win-2026-nobel-prize-economics?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:05:56 +0000 Agencies Agencies Former UN human rights chief Navanethem “Navi” Pillay has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The South Africa-born jurist was recognised for her efforts to promote peace and international law. The announcement was made by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on Friday. Pillay joked that she might “share the prize” with US President Donald Trump if people kept applauding her. “If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump,” Pillay said in a video posted to social media by the... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/3370342/navi-pillay-wins-2026-nobel-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/3370342/navi-pillay-wins-2026-nobel-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:09:41 +0000 Agencies Agencies The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature is Canada’s Anne Carson, an essayist and classicist who brings a modern twist to mysticism and antiquity in her writings about love, desire and despair. The 76-year-old won “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday. Carson is widely known for her translations of classical Greek literature, which heavily... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3370205/canadas-anne-carson-wins-2026-nobel-prize-literature?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3370205/canadas-anne-carson-wins-2026-nobel-prize-literature?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:07:24 +0000 Reuters Reuters Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a long-standing riddle of asymmetric “mirror image” molecules, a discovery hugely important for pharmaceutical manufacturing, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. Soai, 76, is Japanese, and Kagan, 95, is French, and their work built on a discovery by the 19th century French chemist Louis Pasteur. “This is the most exciting day in my life, I am very glad to share this prize with professor Henri Kagan,”... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370059/nobel-chemistry-prize-awarded-henri-b-kagan-and-kenso-soai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370059/nobel-chemistry-prize-awarded-henri-b-kagan-and-kenso-soai?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:55:49 +0000 Reuters Reuters Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel ⁠Prize in Physics for his work creating an Antarctic observatory of ice to detect high-energy neutrinos, elusive subatomic particles that can reveal otherwise inaccessible information about the cosmos. Halzen, 82, realised that pristine ice at the South Pole could be used to track such neutrinos, sometimes known as “ghost particles” for the way they pass through the Earth without a trace, only interacting with matter extremely... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369925/francis-halzen-wins-2026-nobel-prize-physics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369925/francis-halzen-wins-2026-nobel-prize-physics?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:56:51 +0000 Reuters Reuters American Karl ⁠Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain. The Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said Deisseroth, 54, Hegemann, 71, and Nagel, 73, had been selected for their “discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics”. “This method [optogenetics] makes it possible to switch on, or off,... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369804/nobel-medicine-prize-awarded-3-scientists-optogenetics-development?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369804/nobel-medicine-prize-awarded-3-scientists-optogenetics-development?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:45:18 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Donald Trump no longer needs to think “purely of peace” after being snubbed for a Nobel prize, the US president said in comments published on Monday, adding the world will not be safe until Washington controls Greenland. Trump has put the transatlantic alliance to the test with threats to take over Greenland “one way or the other”, with European countries closing ranks against Washington’s designs on the vast Danish territory. German and French leaders denounced as “blackmail” weekend threats by... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340445/trump-abandons-peace-focus-after-nobel-snub-message-norway-pm-world-not-secure?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340445/trump-abandons-peace-focus-after-nobel-snub-message-norway-pm-world-not-secure?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:15:41 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Nobel Peace laureate Maria Corina Machado said on Thursday that the United States helped her get to Norway from hiding in Venezuela, expressing support for US military action against her country and vowing to return home. Machado, who vanished in January after challenging the rule of President Nicolas Maduro, emerged on a hotel balcony in Oslo to cheering supporters early Thursday after several days of confusion over her whereabouts. “We did get support from the United States government to get... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3335989/after-months-hiding-venezuelas-nobel-peace-prize-winner-machado-emerges-norway?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3335989/after-months-hiding-venezuelas-nobel-peace-prize-winner-machado-emerges-norway?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:03:26 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has vowed to go to Norway to pick up her Nobel Peace Prize, defying a warning from Caracas that she would be a fugitive if she did so. The head of the Nobel Institute, Kristian Berg Harpviken, on Saturday said that Machado – who lives in hiding in her country – promised him she would make the ceremony, set to take place in Oslo on Wednesday. “I was in contact with Machado last night [Friday] and she confirms that she will be in Oslo for the... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/americas/article/3335478/venezuelas-machado-defies-warning-vows-attend-nobel-peace-prize-ceremony?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/americas/article/3335478/venezuelas-machado-defies-warning-vows-attend-nobel-peace-prize-ceremony?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:40:22 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics on Monday for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth” including the key principle of creative destruction. The winners represent contrasting but complementary approaches to economics. Mokyr is an economic historian who delved into long-term trends using historical sources, while Howitt and Aghion relied on mathematics to explain how creative destruction works. Dutch-born Mokyr, 79, is from... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3328823/mokyr-aghion-howitt-win-2025-nobel-economics-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3328823/mokyr-aghion-howitt-win-2025-nobel-economics-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:54:38 +0000 Reuters Reuters Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who currently lives in hiding, won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country, in a move the White House criticised as a snub to US President Donald Trump. “President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives. He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will,” White House spokesperson Steven Cheung... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3328534/venezuelas-machado-wins-2025-nobel-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3328534/venezuelas-machado-wins-2025-nobel-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:05:30 +0000 Associated Press,Agence France-Presse Associated Press,Agence France-Presse American scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi from Japan won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries in peripheral immune tolerance, creating openings for possible new autoimmune disease and cancer treatments. This year’s prize “relates to how we keep our immune system under control so we can fight all imaginable microbes and still avoid autoimmune disease”, said Marie Wahren-Herlenius, a rheumatology professor at the Karolinska... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/3328017/2025-nobel-prize-medicine-awarded-brunkow-ramsdell-and-sakaguchi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/3328017/2025-nobel-prize-medicine-awarded-brunkow-ramsdell-and-sakaguchi?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:45:26 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump’s obsession with winning the Nobel Peace Prize next month may have hit a hitch - the stubborn independence of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which insisted that it cannot be swayed. Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has made it clear he wants the prestigious accolade, which his Democratic rival Barack Obama won to the surprise of many shortly after taking office in 2009. The 79-year-old billionaire has taken every opportunity to say he “deserves it”,... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325300/trumps-push-nobel-peace-prize-wont-sway-us-says-committee?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325300/trumps-push-nobel-peace-prize-wont-sway-us-says-committee?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:02:20 +0000