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Born in Italy in 1909, Levi-Montalcini avoided being transported to Auschwitz as a young woman and rose to prominence as a neurobiologist. She was a co-recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Medicine.
Nobel prize winning author Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was as hard on himself as on others.
The long and turbulent history of the Nobel Prize for Literature continues.
It’s 65 years since the structure of DNA was first published, but the woman who made that possible remains unknown to many people.
Allegations of sexual harassment have shaken the organisation that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Africa has recorded a tremendous growth in its output of academic engineering research over the past 20 years. Greater collaboration can increase this growth even more.
We are observing two new phenomena. On one hand doubt is shed on the quality of entire scientific fields or sub-fields. On the other this doubt is played out in the open, in the media and blogosphere.
Marie Skłodowska Curie was born 150 years ago and is still the only female scientist many people can name.
Evidence for a link between breast cancer and artificial light appears to be growing. Do studies showing higher risk of breast cancer the farther west a woman lives in a time zone add to the science?
Governments gently cajoling people towards better life choices is only one side of the nudge theory.
Ishiguro employs some clever techniques to get readers to engage with his characters.
Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Prize in economics for his groundbreaking work incorporating how humans actually behave into economic thinking.
His work on behavioural economics helps us better understand why people make bad financial decisions.
Taking a look at the likely contenders for the Memorial Prize in Economics gives us an idea of where economics is and where it is headed.
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to scientists who developed a way to study biological molecules under an electron microscope.
The 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to three scientists who revolutionized biochemistry by inventing a technology that can image the molecules of life without destroying them.
Today’s scientific research is characterized by interdisciplinary, international collaboration. Awards like the Nobel Prizes haven’t caught up.
The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to scientists who helped pioneer the discovery of gravitational waves. Australia is playing an important role in gravitational-wave astronomy.
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine discovered how our internal body clock works.
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Emeritus Robert Reford Professor and Professor of Medicine, McGill University
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