What is Nobel Prize?

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The extreme information asymmetry in aggregator business is creating market inefficiencies, including breaches of contracts. This makes regulation necessary

The Nobel Prize award ceremony was held in the Swedish capital

The ambassadors of Russia and Belarus have been excluded from this year's Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm because of the war in Ukraine

It may be hard to remember a time when the need to protect the workings of the banking system and possible response to a major crisis was as clearly understood

Nobel-winning discoveries have direct applications

Swedish geneticist Svante Pääbo won the first Nobel of the year, for initiating the field of ancient DNA studies

The Dalai Lama congratulated the winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize and said that by recognizing these awardees, the committee had shone a light on the importance of civil societies

Belarusian security police in July 2021 raided offices and homes of lawyers and human rights activists, detaining Bialiatski and others in a new crackdown on opponents of Lukashenko

For many years, these laureates promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens

There are 343 candidates for Nobel Peace Prize, out of which 251 are individuals and 92 are organisations

With this year's Annie Ernaux, Nobel has now 17 women among its 119 literature laureates

Ernaux was chosen 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory', the award-giving body

Barry Sharpless was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on "click chemistry", becoming only the fifth person to win the prize for the second time

Danish winner Medal described click chemistry as a way to build complex structures and link them as if they were pieces of Lego, the plastic construction toy

The click chemistry that won Morten Meldal, Barry Sharpless, and Carolyn Bertozzi this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry is about making difficult processes easier

Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless were cited for their work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to people "who have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind"

Winners opened the way to powerful new quantum technologies; findings enabled work on quantum computers, encryption

Clauser, Aspect, and Zeilinger have figured in Nobel speculation for more than a decade. In 2010 they won the Wolf Prize in Israel, seen as a possible precursor to the Nobel