In November a curious paper dropped on SSRN, an online hub widely used by economists to circulate their work. The paper’s authors are two of the most important figures in academic finance: Kenneth French, of Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, and Eugene Fama, a Nobel Prize-winning economist from the University of Chicago. The article … Read more
Nobel Prize 2023: The Nobel prizes are announced in early October. Stockholm: Here is a list of Nobel Chemistry Prize winners over the past 10 years: 2022: Carolyn Bertozzi (US), Morten Meldal (Denmark) and Barry Sharpless (US) for the development of click chemistry in which molecular building blocks snap together quickly and efficiently and are … Read more
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Stockholm: Narcolepsy, cancer, or mRNA vaccine research could win the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday when a week of announcements kicks off. The Nobel Prize awards, first handed out in 1901, were created by Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel in his 1895 will to celebrate those who have “conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.” … Read more
AFP | | Posted by Nisha Anand The cash award for each Nobel Prize to be handed out next month will increase to nearly one million euros, the Nobel Foundation announced Friday. The Nobel medal is displayed.(AP) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} The organisation said it was adding the equivalent of 84,000 euros to each category’s … Read more
The University of Alberta has improved its standings in the latest Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), placing 91st in the world and fourth in Canada — its best showing in the 20-year history of the prominent global rankings. The U of A joined the global top 100 for the first time in last year’s … Read more
Superconductivity: Science vs. Social Media The breathlessness that’s greeted a new material made of lead and copper is, well, breathtaking. LK-99 is heralded as a room-temperature superconductor that, if it survives the barrage of peer reviews, could transform the world as we know it. Everything from electricity to transportation to medicine to chip technology might … Read more