A trio of economists just won a Nobel prize for their insights into how democratic and other inclusive institutions are ...

Why are the organisation's prizes so prestigious, and who are some of the previous winners? Barack Obama (right) with his Nobel Peace Prize alongside ... (2012); the United Nations and its then ...

Daron Acemoglu, an economist at MIT, is so prolific and respected that he's long been viewed as a leading candidate for the Nobel prize ... sprawling book, "Why Nations Fail," Acemoglu and ...

Weinstein opened the talk by praising Acemoglu, the co-author of “Why Nations Fail ... who has often been mentioned as a future Nobel Prize winner for his extensive research on the role ...

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One was Dag Hammarskjold, the Swedish secretary-general of the United Nations who died in a plane crash in 1961 but was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize later the same year. And in 1931, the Nobel ...

David Baker of the University of Washington, and Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on protein design and structure prediction. Read our ...

NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce reports on who won and why the Nobel Prize continues to be controversial. NELL GREENFIELDBOYCE, BYLINE: When folks in Sweden start handing out Nobels, phones start ringing.

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...