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Peter Doherty’s Nobel Prize-winning insights proved crucial for understanding how viral infections are controlled.
This year, the Nobel Prizes are trying to reach a wider – and younger – audience. However, critics argue that the commercial partners needed to fund the awards’ many extraneous events are compromising their integrity.
Why it’s important to fund blue-skies research.
The unavoidable regime of publication pervades contemporary academic life across the world. While presented as a virtuous thing, it can actually suffocate the academic profession.
An Angus Deaton school of economics marries data collection with theory to find solutions to real-world problems.
The annual economics award recognises the value of micro analysis and good, old-fashioned legwork.
The favourite in the betting won has almost every single US presidential election since 1868 and more recently the Academy Awards. But how well can the market predict the Nobel Prize winners?
Employing a unique literary method that blurred the genres of oral history and documentary prose, the Nobel Prize for Literature winner told the stories of a traumatized people.
By forging to dialogue to achieve consensus, Tunisia’s Quartet are worthy winners.
Cells must repair the thousands of bits of DNA damage they incur every day. These cellular mechanisms fend off cancerous tumors, and cancer researchers are working to harness their power.
The Belarussian is a worthy winner, but the Nobel is getting further and further away from its lofty origins.
The recipients of this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry showed that DNA is far from static. Rather, it is bombarded by damaging forces, but our bodies know how to repair these precious strands.
The drug partly responsible for more than halving the rate of malaria over the last 30 years and which won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has a long history of use.
Nobel Prize-winning science is almost by definition arcane and complex. While these esoteric fields have their moment in the spotlight, does it matter if the rest of us understand?
Tu Youyou sifted through 2,000 ancient herbal remedies to develop a drug that now treats hundreds of millions of people a year.
Without natural DNA repair processes we wouldn’t be here. This year’s Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry helped us crack how it all works.
Plants mentioned in ancient Chinese books helped inspire the latest Nobel Prize for Medicine winner, but testing old remedies isn’t as simple as following the recipe.
On the journey to discovery with the ‘gifted mentor’ Takaaki Kajita, one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners, from some one who studied with him.
The drug that led to two scientists wining the Nobel Prize for Physiology or medicine has made a significant difference for those suffering from elephantiasis and river blindness.
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Emeritus Robert Reford Professor and Professor of Medicine, McGill University
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Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Professor and Lincoln Professor of Ethics in Public Affairs, Arizona State University
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Head of School for Physics, University of Sydney
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Professor of Writing and Literature, Deakin University
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Fellow, Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of Mathematics, University of Florida
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Associate professor, Monash University
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Emeritus Professor, Brunel University London
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Cardiff University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
