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Tuesday, April 8, 2025
TopicNobel Prize

Topic: Nobel Prize

2024 Nobel Prize in Economics disregards history. It minimises effects of race, colonialism

The Nobel Prize in Economics generates an implied hierarchy of knowledge, and rewards particular ways of thinking. This has great consequence for what ideas are spread and adopted.

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson & James Robinson win 2024 Nobel economics prize

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Monday the economists had been feted ‘for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity’. The economics prize was the final one to be given out this year.

Our take on BJP’s Haryana win, J&K elections, & Ratan Tata’s death

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

Nobel has a habit of ignoring women. Rosalind Lee didn’t even stand a chance

Crunch the numbers in any direction. Cherry-pick the years. The answer will always be the same: if the Nobel Committee has to snub somebody, it will be a woman.

Pain, refracted through poetry, reigns in the novels of literature Nobel laureate Han Kang

Han Kang, first South Korean author to be awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, previously won International Booker for her novel The Vegetarian, which was key to opening global doors for her.

Ratan Tata was a patriot and nation-builder India will miss

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Chemistry Nobel recognises work on proteins; winning trio include chess master, theoretical physicist

In keeping with theme of 2024 Physics Nobel, prize in Chemistry too recognises work done through computation & modelling with neural networks.

2024 Physics Nobel for AI scientists. How they pioneered machine learning modelled on human brain

American scientist John Hopfield’s network can save info & reconstruct it. British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton’s Boltzmann machine was an early example of a generative model.

Scientists Hopfield, Hinton win 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on machine learning

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said that Machine learning based on artificial neural networks is currently revolutionising science, engineering and daily life.

US biologists win Nobel in Medicine for microRNA discovery. Here’s how it prevents diseases like cancer

Victor Ambros & Gary Ruvkun won the prize Monday. MicroRNAs are a class of tiny, non-coding RNAs that regulate gene activity. A small worm was the silent hero behind the milestone.

On Camera

Comrades are getting it wrong. CPI(M)’s problem is its China-Russia obsession, not atheism

Has the Left learnt any lessons from the 2019 Lok Sabha elections? Absolutely not, going by the CPI(M)’s political resolution discussed at its 24th Congress at Madurai in Tamil Nadu.

Why Trump’s tariffs are unlikely to severely impact the Indian economy

The jitters in Indian markets are likely ‘short-term’. Experts say this could serve as a key growth opportunity & that India must accelerate FTA talks with major countries, including US.

Military space doctrine & national military space policy on the anvil, says CDS Gen Chauhan

Space is emerging as a new domain that will dominate warfare, CDS says, adds that India needs to develop a 'space culture' that fosters new ideas & capabilities in space warfare.

Manoj ‘Bharat’ Kumar sang so Sunny Deol could yell—journey of Bollywood patriotism

This isn’t an obituary of Manoj Kumar. It's about the influence he had in defining patriotism for two generations of Indians across our most perilous decade, say from 1962 until the run-up to the Emergency.