Nobel awarded to 3 economists for work to alleviate poverty
The Nobel Economics Prize was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their studies on poverty. Duflo is the second woman to win the economics prize.
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Ethiopian prime minister
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was given the award for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighboring Eritrea.
2 Nobel literature prize winners expose Europe’s fault lines
The two winners were a liberal Pole who has irked her country's conservative government and an Austrian accused by many liberals of being an apologist for Serbian war crimes.
Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke
Two Nobel Prizes in literature were announced because the 2018 literature award was postponed following sex abuse allegations that rocked the Swedish Academy.
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The prize went to John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas; M. Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton; and Akira Yoshino of Asahi Kasei Corporation and Meijo University in Japan.
A Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.
The two American economists have not worked together, but both have developed models to study long-term, sustainable economic growth.
“Each of them in their own way has helped to give greater visibility to wartime sexual violence, so that the perpetrators can be held accountable for their actions,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Friday.
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