Nobel Prize

• Country: India

How the first CT scan detected a brain cyst and led to a Nobel Prize

• Country: South Africa

Five things to know about the Nobel Prize

Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Professor Wangari Maathai and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu at the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2005.

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• Country: United Kingdom

Physicists who uncovered the first particle accelerator were honored with a Nobel Prize 75 years ago

While scientists are known for their dedication to their research, crawling on the floor to avoid electrocution for the sake of a measurement seems a little excessive. But this is what British physicist John Cockcroft and Irish physicist Ernest T.S. Walton had to do in the early 1930s while…

• Country: United States

What it’s like to wait for the call from the Nobel Prize committee

Ahead of this year's Nobel Prize announcements, STAT chatted with Mary-Claire King, who discovered the BRCA cancer mutations and is frequently mentioned in prize predictions.

• Country: United Arab Emirates

'It's not her fault': Children of Iranian Nobel Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on pain of separation

The children of Nobel Prize-winning Iranian Narges Mohammadi have paid a moving tribute to their mother after she revealed in a new autobiography that she was afraid of dying without ever seeing them again. Ms Mohammadi's teenage son Ali Rahmani said it was not up to his mother to feel bad – it was…

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• Country: Australia

Physicists who uncovered the first particle accelerator were honored with a Nobel Prize 75 years ago – their work shaped physics, medicine and even art research

Particle accelerators aren’t just for testing the Standard Model. They’re also used to diagnose and treat disease and study world history.

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• Country: United States

Six biology breakthroughs that should have won a Nobel Prize—but didn’t

Major discoveries, including the role of DNA, the biological basis of psychology, and the human genome, missed out on science’s top recognition

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• Country: United States

Five physics breakthroughs that should have won a Nobel Prize—but didn’t

How politics, bad timing, and skepticism left foundation stones of modern physics unrecognized