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.
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.
I don’t believe that the US-India relationship has deteriorated beyond repair. There are ways of handling Trump, even if the Pakistanis have outplayed us this year.
COMMENTS