Nobel prizes you’ve never heard of: how an obscure version of colour photography beat quantum theory to the most prestigious prize in physics
by Margaret Harris
Qunatum theory at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/20207
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Nobel Prizes: 5 Unlikely Winner Reactions, From the Unbothered to the Downright Mad
László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.
By EMILY TEMPLE
https://lithub.com/laszlo-krasznahorkai-has-won-the-2025-nobel-prize-in-literature/
Nobel peace prize 2025 live:
María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/10/nobel-peace-prize-2025-live-latest-news-updates
The five scholars who won two Nobel prizes – and what sets them apart.
There is often much debate about who is the greatest among sportsmen and women, movie stars, leaders or artists. But some scholars have truly made a staggering difference to the world.
By Sam McKee via @ConversationUK
🛑🇺🇸No Nobel For Terrorists! America officially becomes a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”: Trump and Republicans actively fund Russian terrorism, lifting sanctions (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/4071300-us-treasury-lifts-restrictions-on-some-companies-supplying-sanctioned-goods-to-russia.html #Ukraine #Poland #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Trump #Denmark #Germany #France #Italy #NobelPrize #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #US #UK #EU #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Romania
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#OTD in 1930.
American novelist Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first writer from the United States to receive the award.
Sinclair Lewis Nobel Lecture:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1930/lewis/lecture/
2025 Nobel Prize winner, Laszlo Krasznahorkai writes about collapse, fear, absurdity, and the strange comedy of human behavior when the world feels close to breaking apart.
His novels are famous for their long hypnotic sentences.
A perfect place to start is Satantango or The Melancholy of Resistance.
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If you want to enter ancient Rome through a book that feels vivid, intelligent, and surprisingly dramatic, The History of Rome is a great choice.
It is more than history: it is a story of power, ambition, political struggle, and the making of a civilization.
This monumental work helped Theodor Mommsen win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, becoming the second laureate in the prize’s history.
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