Nobel Peace Prize winners

Nobel Peace Prize: three heroic women honoured

First Post Fri 7 Oct 2011, AT 14:44

Awards is shared by three women, one of whom used a sex strike to help bring peace to Liberia

Graphene

Why has graphene won a Nobel Prize?

News Tue 5 Oct 2010, AT 18:20

The atom-thick layer of carbon could replace silicon in the technology of the future

Robert Edwards

IVF pioneer Robert Edwards wins Nobel Prize

News Mon 4 Oct 2010, AT 15:35

The physiologist behind the world's first test tube baby is awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine

General Stanley McChrystal

Obama looks like a wimp over the McChrystal issue

Alexander Cockburn Mon 12 Oct 2009, AT 13:10

Alexander Cockburn: He may have clinched the Nobel, but where’s the fire in his belly?

Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman, Thorbjoen Jagland

Norwegians who gave Obama the Nobel Prize

News Fri 9 Oct 2009, AT 18:44

The odd Norwegian committee has given the Peace prize to a controversial American before

Barack Obama

Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize has come far too early

News Fri 9 Oct 2009, AT 15:15

Yes, Woodrow Wilson won it – but he helped end WWI... Obama has a long way to go

Herta Mueller

Nobel winner Muller still shadowed by secret police

News Thu 8 Oct 2009, AT 18:49

Herta Muller, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, has been at war with the Romanian secret police for 30 years

Charles Kuen Kao

Nobel for the cable guy – Charles Kuen Kao

News Wed 7 Oct 2009, AT 16:39

Shanghai-born graduate of Woolwich Poly shares Nobel Prize for Physics

Derek Walcott in 1992

Derek Walcott pulls out of poetry professor race

News Wed 13 May 2009, AT 12:50

Sexual harassment case from quarter of a century ago comes back to haunt Nobel poet

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio: the reading list

News Thu 9 Oct 2008, AT 01:00

Josh Burrows goes in search of someone who has actually read the Nobel prize-winning author