Nobel Prizes

Clearing the airAtmospheric chemist Susan Solomon finds hope in past environmental challenges.

A fight for rightsIn MIT talk, exiled Nobel Prize-winning activist Shirin Ebadi promises a continued ‘fight for full and complete equality’ for Iran’s women.

Inequality offensiveAt MIT forum, economists evaluate the consequences of increasing inequality in America, and suggest solutions.

Nobel laureate: Long path to economic renewal, but energy innovation could help

Gobind Khorana, MIT professor emeritus, dies at 89Nobel-winning biochemist made seminal contributions to genetics, was a loyal teacher and mentor.

Making a Nobel-winning chemistry reaction even betterNew catalyst offers greater control over the synthesis of organic cyclic compounds, including potential cancer drugs.

Adam Riess ’92 wins Nobel Prize for physicsMIT alum cited for studying the universe’s expansion.

Alumni power fuels this week’s MIT150 economics and finance symposiumMIT's strength in economics and finance education is manifest in this week's alumni-rich lineup of panelists.

The power of ‘convergence’In white paper, MIT scientists discuss potential for revolutionary advances in biomedicine and other fields.

Diamond to receive Nobel at ceremony on Friday

Said and DoneHumanities, arts, and social sciences digest for November 2010

Said and DoneHumanities, arts, and social sciences digest for October 2010

CEE researchers collaborate with Nobel Prize winnerTeam explains tearing mechanism of the triangular-shaped ribbons of graphene

MIT economist Peter Diamond wins Nobel PrizeHonored with two others for work on 'analysis of markets with search frictions'

Lunch with a Laureate: Robert HorvitzPresented by the MIT Museum and the Cambridge Science Festival

Lunch with a Laureate: Jack SzostakPresented by the MIT Museum and the Cambridge Science Festival

Lunch with a Laureate: Eric ChivianPresented by the MIT Museum and the Cambridge Science Festival

Lunch with a Laureate: Richard SchrockPresented by the MIT Museum and the Cambridge Science Festival

Nobel laureate Krugman: ‘Dark age of macroeconomics’ is upon usIn Stata Center lecture, the Nobel Prize-winning former MIT professor warns that America is replaying its past economic policy mistakes.

MIT alum garners economics nobelOliver Williamson '55 a co-winner, for work on the theory of the firm

Nobel economists support different development pathEntrepreneurship can be powerful tool against poverty

Amid food price spike, Nobel laureate eyes fertilizerMIT chemist Schrock seeks to streamline production

Report: Support early-career investigators, high-reward researchMIT's Horvitz helped draft AAAS recommendations

Microcredit pioneer Yunus is MIT's 2008 Commencement speaker