Former US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger has died, aged 100. His legacy, including his involvement in the Vietnam war, is long, complicated and divisive.
Nicole Boivin, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology; Janet G. Hering, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Susanne Täuber, University of Amsterdam, and Ursula Keller, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Studies reveal women’s research receives tougher assessment, less funding, fewer prizes and less citation than men’s.
Louis Brus, center, shares Nobel recognition with two other quantum dots pioneers.
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Goldin is showing the world that economics is about more than just finance.
Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. Photo taken in 2021.
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Narges Mohammadi is the second Iranian woman, after Shirin Ebadi, to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She remains locked up in Evin, Iran’s most notorious prison for political detainees.
Some Nobel Prize-winning ideas originate in strange places, but still go on to revolutionize the scientific field. George de Hevesy’s research on radioactive tracers is one such example.
The author, Mats Larsson, on the right during the 2023 announcement.
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The 2023 Nobel Prize in physics recognized researchers studying electron movement in real time − this work could revolutionize electronics, laser imaging and more.
L'Huillier and her husband at the Nobel prize celebration in Lund.
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Three scientists won the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for their work developing methods to shoot laser pulses that only last an attosecond, or a mind-bogglingly tiny fraction of a second.
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”.
Photograph of the first Solvay Conference in 1911 at the Hotel Metropole. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes is standing third from the right.
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Superconductivity may sound like science fiction, but the first experiments to achieve it were conducted over a century ago. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, credited with the discovery, won a Nobel Prize in 1913.