DHAKA, Bangladesh — A court in Bangladesh on Sunday granted bail to Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus in a $2.3 million embezzlement case. Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering the use of microcredit to help impoverished people, was sentenced to six months in prison in January on a separate charge … Read more
STOCKHOLM — Claudia Goldin, a Harvard University professor, was awarded the Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that helps explain why women around the world are less likely than men to work and to earn less money when they do. Fittingly, the announcement marked a small step toward closing a gender gap among Nobel … Read more
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Basis on Saturday withdrew its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this 12 months’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the choice introduced a day earlier “provoked sturdy reactions.” A number of Swedish lawmakers stated Friday they might boycott this 12 months’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies within the … Read more