Oleg Orlov, the 70-year-old co-chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Memorial Center for Human Rights, received a 30-month prison sentence from a Moscow court on Tuesday for his criticism of the war in Ukraine. The veteran human rights advocate was condemned for "repeatedly discrediting" the Russian army in an article he wrote condemning the...
A court in Bangladesh has sentenced a Nobel Peace Prize laureate to six months in prison despite more than 170 world leaders and Nobel laureates calling for the trial to be halted. Muhammad Yunus, who pioneered the use of microcredit to help poor people, was convicted of violating the country's labor laws. …
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This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Kraus and Anne Lieu for experiments that have brought humanity new tools to explore the world of electrons in atoms and molecules, the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announced today. They were chosen because of "experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for ...
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The world-renowned doctor, Nobel laureate in medical physiology, Ferid Murad, died today, his relatives in the United States announced. Murad, a world-renowned doctor, originally from Macedonia, was born in 1936, and in 1998 he received the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. The Gostivar hospital is named after him, and he is an honorary citizen of Chair Municipality and...
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American scientist John Bannister Goodinough, the oldest Nobel laureate and inventor of lithium-ion batteries, died at the age of 101. He died Sunday, according to the University of Texas, where he worked as an engineering professor. "John's legacy as a brilliant scholar is immeasurable," said Jay Hartzell, dean of the University. The death of the famous Nobel laureate was confirmed by his student Nicholas Grundish, ...
