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Astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar Turns 80: ‘Despite excellent work at many labs, a Nobel Prize in science eludes India since 1930’
Jayant Narlikar, professor emeritus at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) and one of the most famous residents of the city, turned 80 on Thursday.
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Sudarshan was denied the prize, but his ideas have influenced too many physicists for his importance to be doubted
Nobel Prize for Literature will not be awarded this year; here’s why
It would be the first time since World War Two that the Academy has failed to award a Nobel Prize for Literature. There were no awards between 1940 and 1943 while the American novelist William Faulkner received his prize a year late in 1950.
Lack of evidence put Stephen Hawking’s Nobel Prize hopes in black hole
Scientists mourning the death of Stephen Hawking believe that the late British cosmologist did not win a Nobel Prize, as his theories have never been proven.
Richard Thaler wins Nobel Prize in economics
The Nobel Prize for Economics was today awarded to Professor Richard H Thaler of the University of Chicago. Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan’s name was among those doing the rounds
Ich liebe Ish: A Love Letter for Kazuo Ishiguro
Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s writings call out to a part in each one of us whose existence we often don’t want to acknowledge. His characters struggle with their interpretation of historical events and their involvement in those.
This is why Raghuram Rajan is in list of probable Nobel Prize winners in economics
According to Clarivate, Raghuram Rajan is considered a candidate for his “contributions illuminating the dimensions of decisions in corporate finance”.
What is International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) ?
Nobel Peace Prize 2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) paid a tribute to the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Nobel Prize in Literature, 2017: Writing from the edge of the abyss
The Nobel Committee corrects course — chooses a Japan-born Briton who, despite not being Murakami, has long been considered adequately worthy of the Award.
Quiz: How well do you know author Kazuo Ishiguro?
Play the quiz and find out how much you know about the Nobel Literature Prize 2017 winner Kazuo Ishiguro!
British author Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2017
The Nobel Peace Prize committee in Sweden said that the award was given to Kazuo Ishiguro for uncovering the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2017: Molecules of life, captured in 3D
The use of cryo-electron microscopy, developed separately by the Laureates, allows biomolecules to be frozen mid-movement, and to be portrayed at atomic resolution. This technology, the Nobel Committee said, ‘has moved biochemistry into a new era’.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for method that help visualise biomolecules
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists for the development of a method that help detect biomolecules structures.
Fruit fly: The tiny star behind five Nobel Prizes in medicine
A look at the spectacular “career” of Drosophila in genetics, the tiny insect that has pages dedicated to it on the websites of some of the most prestigious universities and research institutes of the world.
Nobel Prize in Physics, 2017: Detectors of ripples in space-time
Swedish Academy makes amends for 2016 ‘miss’, recognises Laureates’ ‘decisive contributions to Ligo detector and the observation of gravitational waves’ — a vindication of Einstein’s prediction, and the biggest thing in physics since the discovery of Higgs boson.
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In Kolkata’s tangle of wires, the threat of looming tragedy
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PM Narendra Modi’s political life — in photos
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