These prizes, instituted in the year 1901 by Nobel Foundation, have over the years become the highest individual or organisational awards in their respective fields.
One of 2 authors of 'Power of the Pill', Goldin received Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for advancing 'our understanding of women’s labor market outcomes'.
Scientists awarded 2023 chemistry Nobel are Moungi G. Bawendi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Louis E. Brus (Columbia University) & Alexei I. Ekimov (Nanocrystals Technology Inc).
Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini, & Ferenc Krausz won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on attosecond pulses to peek into realm of atoms and molecules.
Hungarian biochemist Kariko & American immunologist Weismann won for research in mRNA, which enabled vaccine development for Covid. This followed decades of struggle.
Scientists Katalin Kariko & Drew Weissman from Hungary and US respectively won the prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries enabling the development of mRNA Covid-19 vaccines.
Former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke, along with Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, join luminaries such as Paul Krugman and Milton Friedman, previous winners of the prize.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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