Nobel laureate

Robert F Kennedy Jr gestures during a rally for Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden, in New York, US, October 27, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo
USA

Dozens of Nobel laureates sign letter opposing RFK Jr. as Trump's health secretary

"In view of his record, placing Mr. Kennedy in charge of DHHS would put the public's health in jeopardy," concludes the letter signed by 77 Nobel recipients in medicine, chemistry,...

Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari attends the 2009 World Leaders Forum at Columbia University in New York September 21, 2009. REUTERS/Eric Thayer (UNITED STATES POLITIC)
World+Biz

Finnish Nobel Peace laureate and former president Ahtisaari dies at 86

Louise Glück outside her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photograph: Daniel Ebersole/AP
Splash

Louise Gluck, US poet and 2020 Nobel laureate, dies at 80

File Photo: Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus speaks at the Trust Women conference in London on 19 November 2014. Photo: Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett
Bangladesh

Over 100 Nobel laureates call on PM to suspend judicial proceedings against Prof Yunus

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Corporates

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi coming to Dhaka as convocation speaker of Canadian University of Bangladesh

Oldest Nobel prize laureates by category
By The Numbers

Oldest Nobel prize laureates by category

FILE PHOTO: Nobel Peace Prize co-winner 2021 Maria Ressa attends a ceremony for World Press Freedom day at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland May 3, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
World+Biz

Philippine Nobel laureate Ressa to appeal cyberlibel conviction in Supreme Court

The box containing the Nobel Prize medal in physics is pictured before being awarded to German scientist Reinhard Genzel in Munich, Germany, December 8, 2020. Peter Kneffel/Pool via REUTERS
Panorama

How does one get nominated for a Nobel?

US ex-president Barack Obama. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

Barack Obama: president, Nobel laureate, and now an Emmy winner

Archbishop Desmond Tutu gestures at the launch of a human rights campaign marking the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , December 10, 2007. The campaign aims at getting a billion people to sign in support of the declaration. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings(SOUTH AFRICA)
Africa

South Africa's Tutu - anti-apartheid hero who never stopped fighting for "Rainbow Nation"

Archbishop Desmond Tutu laughs as crowds gather to celebrate his birthday by unveiling an arch in his honour outside St George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, October 7, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
World+Biz

South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Tutu dies aged 90

Kailash Satyarthi, 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, takes part in a panel in New York, September 27, 2015. Photo: Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

India's Nobel laureate fears upsurge in child labour as pandemic shrivels economy

File photo of Prof Muhammed Yunus/Collected
Bangladesh

Dr Muhammad Yunus appointed as Albukhary International University chancellor