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By Raphaëlle PICARD Paris (AFP) - Première autrice de nouvelles récompensée par le prix Nobel de littérature, la Canadienne Alice Munro avait fait le choix du texte bref pour ausculter la vie des gens dans les campagnes de l'Ontario. La Canadienne, dont le décès à 92 ans a été annoncé mardi, est populaire dans les pays anglosaxons - elle reçut le prestigieux Prix international Man Booker en 2009 - mais s'est fait tardivement connaître à l'étranger. Sans doute en raison de son choix pour la nouvelle, genre littéraire si prisé outre-atlantique mais boudé en Europe. En France, elle n'est publiée ...
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By Marion THIBAUT Montréal (AFP) - La grande autrice canadienne Alice Munro, spécialiste de la nouvelle et récompensée en 2013 par le prix Nobel de littérature, est décédée à l'âge de 92 ans. Elle s'est éteinte lundi soir dans la province de l'Ontario dans le centre du Canada, où se déroulaient la plupart de ces récits, a précisé à l'AFP son éditrice. Qualifiée par l'Académie suédoise de "maîtresse de la nouvelle contemporaine", capable "d'accueillir toute la complexité épique du roman en quelques courtes pages", elle avait élevé cette forme littéraire au rang d'art. Toutefois, malgré ce succè...
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Londres (AFP) - Le physicien britannique Peter Higgs, prix Nobel en 2013 pour ses travaux sur le "boson de Higgs", une particule élémentaire considérée comme la clef de voûte de la structure fondamentale de la matière, est mort lundi à l'âge de 94 ans, a annoncé mardi l'université d'Edimbourg. "Il s'est éteint paisiblement à son domicile le lundi 8 avril à la suite d'une courte maladie", a indiqué l'université, dont le scientifique a longtemps été professeur émérite, dans un communiqué. Peter Higgs avait reçu le Nobel de physique en 2013 avec le Belge François Englert. Ils ont été récompensés ...
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A total of 285 candidates have been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, including 196 individuals and 89 organizations, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Wednesday. This means that this year's field of candidates is significantly smaller than last year, when there were 351 valid nominations. The highest number of nominees was reached in 2016 with 376 candidates. The deadline for nominating potential award winners was the end of January. The Nobel Institutions traditionally keep the names of the candidates secret for 50 years. Members of parliament, members of government, head...
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Washington (AFP) - American poet Louise Gluck, winner of the Nobel prize for her distinctively austere writing that touched on themes of mythology and the universal human experience, has died, a Yale University spokeswoman told AFP on Friday. She was 80. The New York native most recently taught at Yale as a poetry professor. She died of cancer, The New York Times reported, citing friend and former Yale colleague Richard Deming, on Friday at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Gluck was the 2020 Nobel laureate in literature, the 16th woman to win the award. Her idols included other winners of...
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Stockholm (AFP) - The Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for research that has helped bring understanding to the role of women in the labour market. The 77-year-old Harvard professor, who is the third woman to be awarded the prestigious economics prize, was given the nod "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes," the jury said. The Nobel is a "very important prize, not just for me, but for the many people who work in this field and who are trying to understand why there is so much change, but there are still large...
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Stockholm (AFP) - The Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for her research helping understand the role of women in the labour market. The Harvard professor, who is the third woman to be awarded the prestigious economics prize, was given the nod "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes," the jury said. "Her research reveals the causes of change, as well as the main sources of the remaining gender gap," it added in a statement. Globally, about 50 percent of women participate in the labour market compared to 80 percen...
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Oslo (AFP) - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran, many of whom are removing their hijabs despite a harsh crackdown. Mohammadi's award comes after a wave of protests swept Iran following the death in custody a year ago of a young Iranian Kurd, Mahsa Amini, arrested for violating Iran's strict dress rules for women. A 51-year-old journalist and activist, Mohammadi has spent much of the past two decades in and out of jail for her campaign against the mandatory hijab for women and the death penalt...
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Washington (AFP) - This year's Nobel Chemistry winners are pioneers in the nanoworld. During the 1980s, Alexi Ekimov, 78, and Louis Brus, 80, working independently and on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, succeeding in creating "quantum dots" -- nanoparticles that are found today in next generation TV screens and are being used to illuminate tumors in the body. A decade later, 62-year-old Moungi Bawendi revolutionized methods to manufacture them with precision and at scale, paving the way for their applications. Here's the rundown on the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners. PerseveranceBa...
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Washington (AFP) - Talk about bouncing back. MIT professor Moungi Bawendi is a co-winner of this year's Nobel chemistry prize for helping develop "quantum dots" -- nanoparticles that are now found in next generation TV screens and help illuminate tumors within the body. But as an undergraduate, he flunked his very first chemistry exam, recalling that the experience nearly "destroyed" him. The 62-year-old of Tunisian and French heritage excelled at science throughout high school, without ever having to break a sweat. But when he arrived at Harvard University as an undergraduate in the late 197...
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