Ben Bernanke, a Great Depression scholar who guided the Federal Reserve through the 2007-2008 financial crisis, won the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics “for research on banks and financial crises” (see story here). He’ll share the prize with two other American economists less fa[...]
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Who deserved a Nobel Prize, Ayn Rand or Toni Morrison?
Toni Morrison got a Nobel Prize, Ayn Rand didn’t, despite being more influential. That wasn’t decisive. Rand was a smart, serious, thinker; no question about that. (Bio here; profile here.) She wrote The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, which inspired generations of young people to beco[...]
Economist wins Nobel Prize for debunking GOP arguments
“A U.S.-based economist won the Nobel prize for economics Monday for pioneering research that showed an increase in minimum wage does not lead to less hiring and immigrants do not lower pay for native-born workers, challenging commonly held ideas,” NBC News reported on Monday, October 11[...]
Research behind Covid-19 vaccines doesn’t win Nobel Prize
It read like a script for a made-for-TV movie: Fighting peer rejection, job losses, and self-doubt, Katalin Karikó “spent decades researching the therapeutic possibilities of mRNA” because she was convinced it “could be used for something truly groundbreaking.” And it was: The Pfizer and Mo[...]
Why didn’t Lincoln get a Nobel Prize for his Gettysburg address?
One reason is because Nobel Prizes didn’t exist then. They were created by a will that Alfred Nobel signed on Nov. 27, 1895; came into being when the will was officially approved by Norwegian authorities on April 26, 1897; and weren’t awarded until 1901 (read history here). The recipient[...]
Dr. Fauci wins “Israeli Nobel Prize” for defending science
The Dan David Foundation based at Tel Aviv University awarded Dr. Fauci the Dan David Prize for “courageously defending science in the face of uninformed opposition during the challenging COVID crisis,” The Hill reported on Monday, February 15, 2021. The announcement doesn’t identify the &[...]
Will she get a Nobel Prize for the research that led to Covid-19 vaccines?
It reads like a script for a made-for-TV inspirational drama. Fighting peer rejection, job losses, and at times self-doubt, Katalin Karikó “spent decades researching the therapeutic possibilities of mRNA,” a DNA component, because she was convinced it “could be used for something [...]
October 8th, 2020 - 7:54 pm § in Misc., Schools & Colleges
American poet wins Nobel Prize
American poet Louise Gluck won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” Read story here. She teaches, and is writer in residence, at Yale University. Read her Wikipedia bio here. Return to The-Ave.US Hom[...]
Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Hepatitis C discoverers
Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The award to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice was announced on Monday, October 5, 2020. Read story here. Hepatitis C is a slow-acting viral infection spread by blood t[...]