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# Nobel Prize

This week
1st October 2023 - 4th October 2023
# Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to scientists behind Covid-19 mRNA vaccines
Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman’s discoveries enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines.
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Last month
September 2023
# Nobel Foundation
Nobel Foundation cancels Russian ambassador invite to prize ceremony after backlash
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesman called the decision a “victory for humanism”.
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Sep 2nd 2023, 2:30 PM
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2023
# Belarus
Belarus Nobel Prize winner Ales Bialiatski goes on trial
Rights group Amnesty International called the trial a ‘blatant act of injustice’.
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Jan 5th 2023, 7:20 PM
Last year
2022
# Test Yourself
Quiz: How well do you know Seamus Heaney?
Ireland’s greatest modern poet won a Nobel Prize 27 years ago this weekend
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Oct 16th 2022, 10:00 PM
# Literature
Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Prize In Literature 2022
The French author has written about her life across a series of highly acclaimed memoirs.
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Oct 6th 2022, 12:23 PM
# UNICEF
Russian journalist raises $100 million in auction for Ukraine by selling Nobel Prize
In a speech yesterday he hailed the persistence of journalists as an important check on governments.
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Jun 21st 2022, 1:08 PM
All time
# Your Say
Poll: How often do you read a book?
The Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced today.
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Oct 7th 2021, 9:40 AM
# United Nations
World Food Programme wins Nobel Peace Prize
The WFP was honoured for “its efforts to combat hunger” and “its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas”.
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Oct 9th 2020, 10:53 AM
# Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded for ‘genome scissors’
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna were announced as the recipients in Stockholm.
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Oct 7th 2020, 12:29 PM
# John Banville
'For about 40 minutes I was a Nobel Prize winner': Irish author victim of hoax call
Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke were both awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
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Oct 12th 2019, 3:04 PM
# Peter Handke
'Scandalous': Outrage after Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Slobodan Milosevic defender
Peter Handke was a vocal defender of the Serbs during the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
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Oct 11th 2019, 9:10 AM
# Swedish Academy
Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke
Two winners were announced today as the prize was not awarded in 2018 following a scandal.
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Oct 10th 2019, 12:05 PM
# Nobel Prize
Scientist becomes just third woman ever to win Nobel Prize for physics
She shared the award with two other scientists.
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Oct 2nd 2018, 10:28 PM
# Nobel Prize
2018 Nobel Literature Prize postponed after #MeToo controversy
This is the first time it has been postponed in over 70 years.
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May 4th 2018, 9:30 AM
# me too
Three Nobel prize judges quit in protest over sexual assault allegations
A high-profile figure associated with the Swedish Academy has been accused by 18 women of sexual assault and harassment.
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Apr 9th 2018, 8:29 PM
# Tick tock
Time out: Dangers of disrupting your body clock
The Nobel Medicine Prize was awarded last week to three scientists highlighted how the body clock works.
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Oct 8th 2017, 6:00 PM
# Kazuo Ishiguro
British writer of The Remains of the Day wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The prize is worth 9 million kronor (€1 million).
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Oct 5th 2017, 12:29 PM
# China
Nobel Peace Prize winner released from Chinese prison after 8 years with late-stage cancer
Liu Xiaobo was sentenced in 2009 for “subversion” after spearheading a bold petition for democratic reforms.
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Jun 26th 2017, 10:44 PM
# Mr Tambourine Man
Bob Dylan FINALLY accepts Nobel Prize for Literature
The decision to give the musician the award sparked controversy in recent months.
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Apr 2nd 2017, 11:20 AM
# 3Arena
Bob Dylan to play Dublin gig next year
The musician recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Dec 9th 2016, 6:08 PM
# in absentia
He may be a no-show, but Bob Dylan has written something special for the Nobel banquet
Patti Smith will also perform a version of Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.
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Dec 5th 2016, 8:07 PM
Obama holds ceremony for Nobel Prize winners (Bob Dylan doesn't show up)
Dylan has also indicated he will skip the Nobel award ceremony in December.
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Dec 1st 2016, 7:29 AM
# FARC
Colombia's government will sign a new peace deal this week
The new, revised accord will be submitted to Congress for approval, after the last one was rejected in a referendum.
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Nov 23rd 2016, 7:32 AM
# Nobel Prize
Bob Dylan finally breaks silence on Nobel Prize award
The 75-year-old is the first songwriter to win the prestigious award.
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Oct 29th 2016, 8:10 AM
# No Direction Home
Why Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature
For fans of lyrics, or of lyrical music, Dylan’s output rewards thorough exploration like no other artist of the last 100 years
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Oct 14th 2016, 6:15 AM
# Nobel Skyline
Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for Literature
The American singer was awarded the prize for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
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Oct 13th 2016, 12:05 PM
# dammit
Facebook briefly made a load of people believe they won a Nobel Prize
Not again.
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Oct 4th 2016, 2:09 PM
# Prime Numbers
How much will a can of beer cost you next year? It's the week in numbers
Plus: How many selfies did Teresa Mannion say she posed for in Ballina?
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Dec 12th 2015, 6:30 PM
# Parasite research
Irish scientist receives Nobel Prize for Medicine in glittering ceremony
Professor Campbell is only the second Irish person to ever be awarded the prize for science.
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Dec 10th 2015, 9:55 PM
# have i got news for you
Angus Deaton just won a Nobel prize (but no, it's not the man you're thinking of)
Cue jokes galore.
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Oct 12th 2015, 1:05 PM
# easy mistake to make
That time the Nobel physics prize was accidentally given to the wrong person
Right name, wrong man.
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Oct 6th 2015, 9:15 PM
# william campbell
Irish-born scientist given a Nobel Prize for his work fighting a horrible parasite
Irishman William Campbell shared one half of the prize with Satoshi Omura of Japan.
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Oct 5th 2015, 2:45 PM
# Take a Break
Watch Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai doing card tricks
The Pakistani activist is multi-talented.
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Sep 28th 2015, 11:00 AM
# news wrap
Today's top stories in 6 seconds
Don’t have time to mull over the news? Here’s everything you need to know.
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Dec 10th 2014, 12:56 PM
# DNA
US scientist who sold his Nobel Prize to donate some of his millions to Irish university
It has also been revealed that the man who bought the medal did so to give it back.
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Dec 10th 2014, 11:11 AM
# over-achiever
Check out the CV of the guy who just won the Nobel Prize for Economics
It’s fair to say he’s “accomplished.”
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Oct 13th 2014, 12:46 PM
# Malaria
Autocorrect just made a very big fool of Naomi Campbell
This is why proofreading your tweets is essential.
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Oct 11th 2014, 10:56 AM
# well done
17-year-old Malala Yousafzai has won the Nobel Peace Prize
The teenager was the joint winner of the award along with Kailash Satyarthi of India.
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Oct 10th 2014, 11:03 PM
# Books
French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for Literature
The award is the biggest prize in literature and is worth €877,000.
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Oct 9th 2014, 12:01 PM
# inner gps
UCC to give honorary degree to newly-crowned Nobel prize winner
May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser have shared the award with fellow neuroscientist John O’Keefe.
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Oct 6th 2014, 10:40 PM
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