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The First Ever Nobel Peace Prize Was Split Between These Two Gentlemen

The inaugural Nobel Peace Prize went to Jean-Henri Dunant and Frédéric Passy. Jean-Henri Dunant was a Swiss businessman who witnessed the Battle of Solferino in 1859. Seeing wounded soldiers left unattended on the battlefield moved him deeply.
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Former UCLA professor awarded Nobel Prize for work in reticular chemistry

This post was updated Oct. 14 at 11:14 p.m. A former UCLA professor received the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for his contributions in developing organic frameworks. Omar Yaghi, a former professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA, joined Fred ...
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Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose philosophical, bleakly funny novels often unfold in single sentences, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for his “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of ...
Brown University

Q&A with Peter Howitt: The Nobel Prize and ‘creative destruction’ in the age of AI

Ahead of the Nobel Prize ceremony in Sweden, the Brown University economist discussed his research, its lessons for today, and his appreciation for Brown’s stimulating academic environment.