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AWARDS | RSF unveils the names of its 2022 Press Freedom Prize laureates, in the presence of Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitri Muratov

The ceremony of the thirtieth edition of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Award for Press Freedom, held this December 12 in Paris in the presence of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, distinguished Iranian journalist Narges Mohammadi (Courage Award) , to Ukrainian journalists Mstyslav Tchernov and Yevhen Maloletka (Impact Award) and the Moroccan journalist Omar Radi … Read more

The Nobel Laureates and the Stockholm City Council – www.bolpress.com

by David Armstrong

Photo: Javier Claure C. The content of these pages does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Bolpress The month of December in Sweden is full of holidays: advent (from the Latin “adventus”, arrival), Lucia, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. And as if that were not enough, the activities of the Nobel Prize are added. … Read more

Three Nobel laureates storm the science of the coming decades

by David Armstrong

There are Nobel Prizes that are not difficult to foresee, such as those that were awarded in Physics as a result of the experimental confirmation of the existence of the Higgs’ Boson (2013), of the detection of gravitational waves (2017) or the theoretical study of the black holes and the discovery of one of them … Read more

Meeting the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates… in Minecraft!

by David Armstrong

That we were not expecting. At this point they surely place Minecraft —Maincra, as they affectionately call her in the Mexican chaviza—but as the years go by we never cease to be surprised by the advances that this video game, released in 2011, has been reaching. We know that it is a world of complete … Read more

A Critique of the Nobel Laureates in Economics

by David Armstrong

I don’t usually write about the Nobel Prizesbecause in general I am against the idea that who is better in the sciences or in the arts can be determined by the vote of a group of experts. I think we all know enough about the shortcomings of experts after the Covid-19 crisis, and I think … Read more

What is the Nobel Prize? How many Nobel laureates are there? How to win it?

by David Armstrong

The Nobel Prizesintended for personalities who have worked for “the good of humanity”, are awarded from Monday until October 10 in Stockholm and Oslo. Five things to know about these awards created by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite. Since 1974, the statutes of the Nobel Foundation stipulate that the prize … Read more

Expedition of scientists, including Nobel laureates, will visit the Galapagos Islands

by David Armstrong

An international delegation of scientists and academics, whose members include four Nobel Prize winners, will begin this Friday, August 26, a 12-day expedition to the Galapagos Islands and other places in Ecuador to document the problems facing the ecosystem of the archipelago. Among the participants in this tour, called “the first scientific and cultural expedition … Read more

Six Nobel laureates in Physics and Chemistry meet this Monday with scientists and students from the University of Valencia

by David Armstrong

The Marie Curie Auditorium of the Parc Científic will be the venue for the meeting between the three visiting Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry – Lehn, Sauvage and MacMillan – and an audience made up of students and researchers related to the discipline. This is an activity organized by the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol), … Read more

More than 50 Nobel laureates ask for a 2% cut in military spending to be used for the climate crisis

by David Armstrong

More than 50 Nobel laureates signed an open letter asking all countries to reduce their military spending by 2% per year for the next five years and put half of the money saved in a United Nations fund to combat pandemics, the climate crisis and situations of extreme poverty. Coordinated by Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli, … Read more

More than 50 Nobel laureates ask to reduce world military spending by 2%

by David Armstrong

Last summer there was a meeting in Scotland to discuss the role of science in society. The meeting was attended by the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli, who listened carefully to the lectures and the numbers that were presented. The annual military spending of all powers, it was calculated, was about two trillion dollars a year. … Read more