Nuclear fission – the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms – is what ...

Considered one of the great synthetic organic chemists of the 20th century, Sir Robert Robinson wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1947 “for his investigations on plant products of biological ...

This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three US pharmacologists for their discovery that the unstable gas, nitric oxide (NO), is an essential regulator of vasodilation.

Alongside Otto Hahn, Meitner interpreted the experimental results that demonstrated the fission of uranium atoms. Despite being overlooked for the Nobel Prize awarded to Hahn, Meitner’s influence was ...

Her supporters were distraught that she did not share the 1944 Nobel Prize awarded to her close life-long friend and colleague, Otto Hahn; but others asserted that Hahn had actually done the necessary ...

For someone with “a hyper-fixation” about winning the Nobel Peace Prize, as an advisor put it, Donald Trump sure is going about it all wrong in his second spin as president and purported ...

Sakharov was awarded the prize "for his struggle for human rights in the Soviet Union, for disarmament and cooperation between all nations", according to the Nobel committee citation. The process ...