2019 Nobel Prize

Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk win Nobel prizes for literature

Austria's Peter Handke wins the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the postponed 2018 award goes to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, the Swedish Academy says.

Pioneers of lithium-ion battery win 2019 Nobel chemistry prize

Scientists John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries, an important technology in enabling the world to move away from fossil fuels.

Peebles, Mayor, Queloz win Nobel physics prize for discoveries in astronomy

Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz win the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for shedding light on the evolution of the universe and discovering planets orbiting distant suns.

Kaelin, Ratcliffe and Semenza win 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize

Two scientists from the United States and one from Britain win the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize for finding how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, paving the way for new strategies to fight diseases such as anaemia and cancer.

October 10, 2019
October 10, 2019

Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk win Nobel prizes for literature

Austria's Peter Handke wins the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the postponed 2018 award goes to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, the Swedish Academy says.

October 9, 2019
October 9, 2019

Pioneers of lithium-ion battery win 2019 Nobel chemistry prize

Scientists John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries, an important technology in enabling the world to move away from fossil fuels.

October 8, 2019
October 8, 2019

Peebles, Mayor, Queloz win Nobel physics prize for discoveries in astronomy

Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz win the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for shedding light on the evolution of the universe and discovering planets orbiting distant suns.

October 7, 2019
October 7, 2019

Kaelin, Ratcliffe and Semenza win 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize

Two scientists from the United States and one from Britain win the 2019 Nobel Medicine Prize for finding how cells adapt to fluctuating oxygen levels, paving the way for new strategies to fight diseases such as anaemia and cancer.