The Nobel Peace Prize has recognized some legendary leaders and peace activists, but it has a mixed track record of recognizing people who actually deserve the prize.
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L'Huillier was busy teaching when she her Nobel prize was awarded.
The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.
The Nobel Prize categories were set up more than a century ago. Since then, science has grown and evolved in unpredictable ways.
Bombs have long been a tool for devotees of the range of fringe American political thought. From anarchists to racists, their methods have wrought havoc – but also have created backlash.
The Nobel Prize for physics was awarded to three scientists for the inventions of optical tweezers – in which two laser beams can hold a tiny object – and a method for creating powerful lasers.
This year’s Nobel Prize for literature was nixed because of a sex scandal. Other Nobels have neglected key contributors. Should all prizes be cancelled while criteria for winning is reassessed?
Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Prize in economics for his groundbreaking work incorporating how humans actually behave into economic thinking.
A scholar analyzes the history of the Nobel Peace Prize to ask: What difference has it made?
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Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
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Professor of Physics, Florida State University
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Professor of Physics, University of California, San Diego
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Visiting Research Scholar in Chemistry, University of Richmond
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Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota
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Senior Lecturer of Physics, King's College London
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Emeritus Professor of Physics, Lund University
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Executive Director and Professor of Practice at Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace, University of San Diego
