This Day in History: First Nobel Prizes Awarded (Sunday, December 10th)

This Day in History: First Nobel Prizes Awarded. December 10, 1901. Named after Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, the prizes were awarded in the fields of peace, literature, chemistry, physics and medicine. Having died five years earlier, Nobel..

Jon Fosse Wins 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

Jon Fosse Wins , 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. The 64-year-old Norwegian playwright was awarded the prize "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable," NPR reports. . While Fosse is not well-known to the general public..

Norwegian writer Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

The novelist and playwright was announced as the winner of the top prize in literature.

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman win Nobel Prize in medicine for development of mRNA vaccines

Nobel announcements continue with the physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics award on October 9.