Professor Dennis Lo Yuk-ming, vice-chancellor and president of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), is a world-renowned molecular geneticist widely regarded as the Hongkonger closest to winning a Nobel Prize, but he maintains “a calm attitude” about it. In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post, Lo appeared dispassionate about whether…
Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado told reporters on Thursday that she gave her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump. Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado met with President Donald Trump. (REUTERS) “Two hundred years in history, the people of Bolivar are giving back to the heir of Washington a medal — in…
The Nobel Prize may not seem very relevant to many, but we can certainly draw lessons from its winners. Earlier this year, Peter Howitt – an honorary professor and fellow alumnus of Canada’s Western University – was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with two other professors for work on innovation-driven economic growth. Howitt’s…
new video loaded: Machado Misses Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, but Vows to Visit Oslo transcript Back transcript Machado Misses Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, but Vows to Visit Oslo Ana Corina Sosa, the daughter of the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of her mother, who was unable to…
IN A SMALL country such as Israel, the award of a Nobel prize to one of its citizens is usually cause for national celebration. The announcement last month of Joel Mokyr’s share of the economics prize, however, received scant recognition. In part, that was because it coincided with the release of the last living hostages…
Scientists in China have solved a 140-year-old chemistry problem in a breakthrough that could overturn traditional production methods and slash the cost of cancer treatments and other expensive medicinal compounds. The research was co-led by Zhang Xiaheng, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, and Xue Xiaosong, a professor with the…
Welcome to the Wall Street Week newsletter, bringing you stories of capitalism about things you need to know, but even more things you need to think about. I’m David Westin, and this week special contributor Larry Summers of Harvard took us through the results of the summit between President Trump and President Xi, and Nobel…
China and the United States are locked in a contest for technological supremacy. While it’s impossible to predict the ultimate winner and loser, this year’s Nobel Prize winners in economics may serve as a useful guide to where the two rivals are heading. The US is currently still ahead when it comes to science and…
The Standard Model, a cornerstone of modern physics, explains how three of nature’s four fundamental forces – the electromagnetic, the weak and strong forces – interact at the subatomic level. The groundbreaking work of Chen-ning Yang, who has died aged 103, was fundamental to the completion of this model. Alongside Albert Einstein’s theory of gravitation,…
Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Chen-ning Yang, died in Beijing on Saturday at the age of 103. Yang died of sickness, according to Xinhua. No details were given. He was often ranked alongside Albert Einstein as one of the 20th century’s greatest physicists. In 1954, he co-authored a set of equations with the American physicist Robert…