Personalities Society Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize 2016: Twitter Reactions You Must See For the first time in the history of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the award was given to a singer-songwriter, American Bob Dylan, originally known as Robert Allen Zimmerman. The Swedish Academy announced Dylan as the winner, citing in a press release that he is being recognized “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. The … Read More
Personalities Society Nobel Prize 2016: Colombia’s Juan Manuel Santos Named Nobel Peace Laureate Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos was announced as the 2016 Nobel Prize winner, much to the surprise of the international community. Santos is still reeling from a major bump on the road to peace between the government and the notorious FARC guerillas, when Colombians said no to the brokered peace agreement in a recent plebiscite. Despite this major setback, however, … Read More
Personalities Society Nobel Prize 2016: Chemistry Prize Winner Announced The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2016 to a group of scientists who were responsible for their design of the world’s tiniest machines on a molecular scale. Jean-Pierre Sauvage of the University of Strasbourg, France, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart of Northwestern University, Illinois, US and Bernard L. Feringa of the University of Groningen, the … Read More
Personalities Society Nobel Prize 2016: Winners For Medicine and Physics Announced The prestigious Nobel Prize has awarded the Prizes for the fields of Physiology or Medicine and Physics. Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan received the Prize for Medicine while three British-born scientists received the Prize for Physics. Announcements for other prizes such as Chemistry, Economic Sciences and Peace have been lined up as well for the rest of the week. The … Read More
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