The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors from the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in recognition of its decades-long ...

Here are the winners of the six Nobel Prizes awarded this year. By Derrick Bryson Taylor Every October, committees in Sweden and Norway name laureates in a variety of prizes related to science ...

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their foundational work in artificial intelligence. Hinton, known as the godfather of AI, is a dual citizen of Canada and ...

It won the prize for its "efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons." LONDON -- Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese anti-nuclear weapons group, has won the Nobel Peace Prize for their work toward ...

The Nobel is one of the greatest branding exercises in history. Establishing a prize is easy. The hard part is getting anyone to care. Alfred Nobel, a businessman who made his fortune selling ...

Three economists were awarded the Nobel Prize Monday for their research into how the nature of institutions helps explain why some countries become rich and others remain poor. Daron Acemoglu ...

Author Han Kang was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her “intense poetic prose” on Oct. 10, per a press release by The Royal Swedish Academy. Kang’s work focuses on “historical ...

STOCKHOLM - The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three Americans Monday for their research into why some countries succeed and others fail. Two of the three economists are professors at the ...

Jack Smyth Supported by By A.O. Scott On Thursday, the Swedish Academy will award the Nobel Prize in Literature, the pre-eminent — perhaps only — global arbiter of literary greatness.

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Photo: Imago/Zuma Press This field has a long and noble history in economics. The Nobelists ...