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Science prizes

April 2024

  • Prof Peter Higgs in his old office at Edinburgh University with a description of the Higgs model, written by him on the blackboard.

    Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94

    Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in Edinburgh

March 2024

  • Frans de Waal, primatologist and author, poses with chimpanzees at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Illinois, Saturday, January 22, 2006. (Photo by Kuni Takahashi/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

    Frans de Waal obituary

    Primatologist whose studies showed that non-human apes can behave with compassion, cooperation and cunning

January 2024

  • Marie Curie c1913. She won two Nobel prizes.

    ‘Unthinkable’: Marie Curie’s Paris lab saved from the bulldozers … for now

    Last-minute reprieve keeps Nobel scientist’s legacy standing. Now campaigners want the building to be listed

November 2023

  • Homei Miyashita photographed in Tokyo. Experience for Saturday magazine. I invented the lickable TV

    Experience
    Experience: I invented the lickable TV

  • Frances Arnold won the Nobel and technology prizes for her work on directed evolution of enzymes.

    ‘We need more women,’ says only female winner of Millennium Technology prize

October 2023

  • Martin Rees

    Some Nobel winners are great intellects, others are lucky. There’s more to science than these prizes

    Martin Rees
  • Paul Nurse

    Does winning a Nobel prize make you less productive? Do you get ‘Nobelitis’? Here’s what it did to me

    Paul Nurse
  • DR MS SWAMINATHAN CHAIRMAN OF THE MS SWAMINATHAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION IN CHENNAI.<br>INDIA - JUNE 05: DR MS SWAMINATHAN CHAIRMAN OF THE MS SWAMINATHAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION IN CHENNAI. (Photo by Hk Rajashekar/The The India Today Group via Getty Images)

    MS Swaminathan obituary

  • A plaque showing Alfred Nobel.

    Science Weekly
    All the news and science from the Nobel Prizes – podcast

  • Scientists share Nobel prize in chemistry for quantum dots discovery

  • Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on electrons

  • Scientists whose work enabled mRNA Covid vaccine win medicine Nobel prize

September 2023

  • An illustration of the structure of a human protein modelled by AlphaFold

    Team behind AI program AlphaFold win Lasker science prize

  • A man sitting (fully clothed) on a toilet with his head leaning on his right fist

    Reanimated spiders and smart toilets triumph at Ig Nobel prizes

  • Prof John Cardy and Alexander Zamolodchikov

    ‘Theory of all matter’ physicists among 2023 Breakthrough prize winners

  • View from a balcony of people on stage and seated in an auditorium

    Nobel Foundation reverses decision to invite Russian ambassador to awards

June 2023

  • Giorgio Parisi at the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, October 2021

    Nobel prize winner Giorgio Parisi: ‘There’s a lack of trust in science – we need to show how it’s done’

    The Italian physicist puts the fiendishly tricky theory of complex systems in terms of birds and bus rides, as his new book aims to make his branch of science accessible to all

May 2023

  • Ben Abeles, photographed in 2008 in front of the Kindertransport memorial at Liverpool Street station, central London.

    From fleeing Hitler to Mars: the scientist who changed space travel

    The remarkable journey of Ben Abeles will be celebrated next week by the opening of a new archive

December 2022

  • Citizen Nobel … Jacques Dubochet monitors the health of glaciers.

    Citizen Nobel review – chemistry prize winner becomes charismatic climate crusader

    This affecting documentary follows Swiss biochemist Jacques Dubochet as he turns the sudden fame provided by his Nobel win into a force for change

October 2022

  • Swedish scientist Svante Pääbo with a replica of a Neanderthal skeleton at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

    Behind this Nobel prize is a very human story: there’s a bit of Neanderthal in all of us

    Rebecca Wragg Sykes
    Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are, says archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes
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