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Out of 225 people awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, only five have been women. This is a very small number, and certainly ...

At the time, she was the first woman in 55 years to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Moreover, she was only the third woman ever to win the Nobel Prize in physics, with the other two being Marie ...

Claudia Goldin, an American economic historian and labor economist, is the 2023 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Princeton's John Hopfield, the 2024 Nobel Laureate in Physics, and alumnus Fei-Fei Li of the Class of 1999 were two of seven ...

It has rapidly become one of the hottest topics in materials science and solid-state physics. Professor Novoselov, 36, known as Kostya, first ... get this prize. I slept soundly last night because I ...

This was the first time that ... in attosecond physics may also facilitate ultrafast switching from insulators to conductors, which could produce extremely fast electronics. L'Huillier is the fifth ...

Kariko, 68, is the 13th woman to win the Nobel Prize in medicine ... the recognition,” Weissman said. Nobel announcements continue with the physics prize today, chemistry on Wednesday and ...

Using an old-fashioned phone book, video journalist Nicolas Garriga located physics ... Reynolds got the first photos of Goldin after she won. Explainers and sidebars focused on the chemistry prize ...

Long before the women who helped win the space race were depicted in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” women were making contributions to science that far outpaced the credit they were given for their ...