The Nobel prize in economics or the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”The laureates’ model for understanding how political institutions are created and transformed consists of three key components.First,…
The Nobel Peace Prize in 2024 has been awarded to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo to honour all atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.”This grassroots movement, made up of…
The Nobel prize in Literature 2024 has been awarded to South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”The Nobel committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences made this announcement on Thursday.The Nobel announcements, spanning six days, began on Monday with Americans…
FILE – Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton speaks at the Collision Conference in Toronto, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP, File) British-Canadian professor Geoffrey Hinton was named one of the recipients of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, October 8, alongside John Hopfield, for their significant contributions to machine…
Geoffrey Hinton, often hailed as the “godfather of AI,” has openly expressed reservations about Sam Altman’s leadership of OpenAI, criticising Altman for focusing more on profits than safety. Hinton, who recently won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics, mentioned his pride in one of his former students, Ilya Sutskever, for playing a pivotal role in…
NEW DELHI: The Nobel prize in Chemistry 2024 has been awarded to David Baker for “for computational protein design” with the other half jointly awarded to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”The Nobel committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences made this announcement on Wednesday, a day after two pioneers…
The 2024 Nobel prize in Physiology/Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.“This year’s NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine honours two scientists for their discovery of a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated. They discovered microRNA, a new class…
