BREAKING: The Nobel prize in economics has been awarded to U.S.-based David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido Imbens.
, the economics award wasn’t established in the will of Alfred Nobel but by the Swedish central bank in his memory in 1968, with the first winner selected a year later. It is the last prize announced each year.was awarded to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia for their fight for freedom of expression in countries where reporters have faced persistent attacks, harassment and even murder.was awarded to U.K.
-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was recognized for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee.”went to Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch.for work that found order in seeming disorder, helping to explain and predict complex forces of nature, including expanding our understanding of climate change.
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