According to event organizers, Caucher Birkar, a Kurdish-Iranian refugee turned Cambridge University math professor, put his 14-karat gold medal in a briefcase and soon afterward realized it had been stolen.
The director of the Nobel Institute suspects that President Donald Trump's nomination may be a fake one.
Researchers have made a breakthrough on the century-old photoelectric effect proposed by Einstein. New Spectroscopy methods reveal that electron emission is delayed by intra-atomic interactions.
Music legend Bob Dylan’s memoir “Chronicles: Volume One” and “The Lyrics: 1961-2012,” a bound compilation, were two of the fastest sellers Thursday on Amazon.com.
Bob Dylan, the first songwriter to win a Nobel prize in literature, makes no reference to his win during a concert in Las Vegas.
Bob Dylan, an artist who has left an indelible mark on American music, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday.
The cell biologist is credited with the discovery of the genes responsible for autophagy — a fundamental process through which cells recycle components.
Among the winners are Volkswagen for chemistry, a study asking liars about lying for psychology, and two men who spent time living as animals for biology.
The 69-year-old was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences for "his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare."
Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and Turkish-born Aziz Sancar won the award for work on mapping how cells repair damaged DNA.
Experts say the Nobel prize for Dr. Tu Youyou breaks a psychological barrier, but systemic challenges remain.
The youngest ever Nobel prize winner opened a girls school for Syrian refugees in Lebanon on her 18th birthday.
The medal, which is one of only 10 Nobel Prizes ever to be auctioned, was placed at a minimum bid of $325,000.
"Satyarthi and Malala are precisely the people whom Alfred Nobel in his will calls champions of peace," the Nobel committee's chairman said.
A mathematician by training, Tirole, a Frenchman, focuses his work heavily on game theory and information theory.
The author of 30 books, mainly novels, was named as the 2014 award winner by the Swedish Academy on Thursday.
Winners in the other categories of the Nobel Prize, including, physics, chemistry, literature and peace, will be announced later in the week.
The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize may come down to Pope Francis, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden or Malala Yousufzai.
The 2013 Nobel Prize announcement schedule has been announced, and there are front-runners for the Physics, Peace and Literature prizes.
Taiwan’s billionaire business mogul Samuel Lin has put up over $100 million of his personal fortune to establish a grant foundation that will award what are being referred to as the “Asian Nobel prizes.”
A "silly" study finds a connection between chocolate consumption and Nobel Prize winners.
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2012 was awarded to Chinese author Mo Yan, who in his dozens of stories and novels uses magic realism to merge folk tales, China’s history and the contemporary, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday.