Stockholm's County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations and trusts in the city, is investigating claims the Nobel Foundation has widenened the scope of the prize to a point where it no longer reflects Alfred Nobel's will. But Nobel...

(Photo: Nobel Foundation) 1911: The French Academy of Sciences turns down the membership application of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie. A healthy dose of sexism, racism and chauvinism, all alive and well in the rarified air of the fin de siècle French...

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Nobel prize-winner José Saramago has built his novel, Cain , around the scaffolding of that original tale – and then populated it with other figures from the Old Testament. Saramago, who died in 2010, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. In its...

The Nobel Prize in Economics was established by a large donation by the Riksbanken, the central bank of Sweden, to the Nobel Foundation. The San Francisco based Goldman Foundation, which awards each year the Goldman Environment Prize, could be the...

Bruce A. Beutler, a graduate of UC San Diego and former chair of genetics at The Scripps Research Institute, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Dec. 10th by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on Dec. 10, 2011 in Stockholm. But 2011...