Breaking News: University physicist Yoichiro Nambu awarded Nobel Prize
Yoichiro Nambu, a professor emeritus at the Enrico Fermi Institute, was awarded the Nobel Prize Tuesday for his work involving theoretical particle physics. He will share the prize with Makoto...
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Professor Yoichiro Nambu wins Nobel Prize in physics
Photo: Dan Dry /The Chicago MaroonCAPTION Yoichiro Nambu, 87, the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Physics and the Enrico Fermi Institute, was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize...
View ArticleUniversity-affiliation limits unclear
Your coverage of Yoichiro Nambu’s Nobel Prize was marred by the nonsensical statement, “In winning the Nobel Prize, Nambu joins a group of 82 other Prize winners affiliated with the University as...
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University community gathers to honor Nambu’s induction into cast of laureates
Photo: Chris Salata/The Chicago MaroonInsert caption here Members of the University community gathered on Friday afternoon to celebrate the achievements of Professor Yoichiro Nambu, who last week was...
View ArticleU of C faculty passed over for econ Nobel
It might be presumptuous to even raise the question, but at the U of C, Nobel Prizes aren’t a linchpin of school humility. So it may be worth asking: Why were U of C professors passed over for this...
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Nobel peace laureate promotes Iranian democracy
Photo: Sarah Mendelsohn /The Chicago MaroonInsert caption Toward the end of her talk on Wednesday, Shirin Ebadi, prominent Iranian dissident and 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was asked about the...
View ArticleNobel Peace Prize winner reflects on Cold War efforts to prevent nuclear war
A Nobel Laureate visited campus Tuesday discussing his prize in a category U of C professors have yet to attain. Bernard Lown, winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, reflected on his Cold War...
View ArticleAlumnus George Smith receives Nobel Prize for developing a digital camera eye
George E. Smith, SM’56, PhD’59, received the Nobel Prize yesterday for co-inventing the charge-coupled censor (CCD) – the electronic eye that makes digital cameras possible – in 1969. Since then, the...
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Alum shares physics Nobel for digital photo technology
Photo: IEEE.orgGeorge E. Smith George E. Smith (S.M. ’56, Ph.D. ’59) received the Nobel Prize for Physics Tuesday for co-inventing a circuit that turns light into electric signals. The device, called...
View ArticleArea man wins Nobel Peace prize
President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize Sunday, as some of you may have heard already, surprising pundits and politicians around the world (journalists covering the press conference...
View ArticleAn auspicious Nobel nod
In a world teeming with almost seven billion souls and smarting from the growing pains of hunger, disease, war, and despoliation, what a wonder that little Norway, that scenic hinterland once called...
View ArticleAnd the real Peace Prize goes to…
A lot of curious things come out of Norway: the letter “Ø,” for example, and the inventor of the paper clip. But not much comes close to Friday’s preemptive Nobel Peace Prize, which seems, for lack of...
View ArticleThe worst Nobel intentions
When I first heard that the University of Chicago had claimed two new affiliated Nobel laureates, I thought to myself: Just how many T-shirts, mugs, brochures, and information sessions are they going...
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Alum Bruce Beutler awarded Nobel Prize
Photo: Peter Mosimann Dr. Bruce A. Beutler (M.D. ’81) was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Monday, making him the 86th U of C affiliate to win the award. Beutler shares the...
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Becker Friedman economist makes for eighty-seventh Nobel
Former faculty member and current Becker Friedman Institute Visiting Lecturer Thomas J. Sargent was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics Monday morning, making him the 87th University affiliate to...
View ArticleEcon Nobel Laureate reaches out to undergrads
Nobel Laureate James Heckman spoke about his influential work in economics and encouraged undergraduates to pursue their hunches in the inaugural lecture of the Friedman Forum College Speaker Series....
View ArticleEcon Nobel winner predicts uncertain future for Euro
Thomas Sargent, the recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics, examined the eurozone crisis through the lens of American history and government at a lunch with undergraduates yesterday afternoon...
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Economics Professor Robert Fogel remembered by colleagues, students
Photo: Dustin Whitehead/University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessRobert Fogel, who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work applying quantitative analysis to history and taught for over...
View ArticleUniversity researchers integral to Nobel-winning theory
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the two scientists, François Englert and Peter Higgs, who created the theory that supports the idea of the Higgs boson, the Swedish Royal Academy of...
View ArticleBREAKING: UChicago professors win Economics Nobel
Economics professors Eugene Fama (M.B.A. ’63, Ph.D. ’64) and Lars Peter Hansen won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics for their research into the predictability of asset prices. In announcing the award...
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Econ professors nab Nobel Prize
Photo: Peter Tang/The Chicago MaroonUniversity of Chicago professors Eugene Fama (left) and Lars Peter Hansen received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics yesterday morning. At 5 a.m. Monday morning,...
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Profs, laureates talk 2013 Nobel
Photo: Jacky Jiang / Maroon ContributorGary Becker (left) and Eugene Fama share a laugh at "The Work Behind The Prize", a panel held yesterday at the Logan Performance Hall.Multiple Nobel laureates...
View ArticleFor sale: Nobel Prize of Watson, key DNA researcher
Renowned biologist and Nobel laureate Dr. James Watson will auction off his Nobel Prize in Medicine for an estimated $2.5 to $3.5 million this Thursday. A portion of the proceeds is intended for the...
View ArticleNobel Laureate Lars Hansen gives talk on uncertainty in economic models
2013 Nobel Laureate and UChicago economics professor Lars Peter Hansen discussed how he and other social scientists have historically confronted uncertainty in their research and models in the Wirzup...
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