Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to three American economists for their groundbreaking research into why vast disparities in prosperity exist between countries. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and James A. Robinson from the University of Chicago were honored…
Stockholm: The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang, in recognition of her “intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” as announced by the Swedish Academy today. Best known for her internationally acclaimed novel The Vegetarian, Han Kang has garnered…
New Delhi: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for pioneering research in machine learning. The scientists received the award “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”, the Academy said. Using tools from physics,…
Stockholm: The Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute on Monday awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. Ambros and Ruvkun discovered a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated., They discovered microRNA…
