Maryam Mirzakhani grew up in Tehran dreaming of becoming a writer, not a mathematician. Yet she went on to win the Fields ...

A Kenyan environmentalist, she began by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

The architect, whose experimental designs include a doughnut-shaped pavilion and a restaurant held up by boulders, was praised for his “radical originality.” ...

The audience can see the famous scientist's life unfold in Palaver Tree Theater's production of "The Half-Life of Marie Curie ...

Gabriel García Márquez, a Nobel laureate, emphasized that life's meaning lies not in events, but in how we remember them. His ...

Despite India's rich intellectual tradition and early Nobel laureates like Tagore and Raman, the country has experienced long ...

With his Original Song Oscar win for “Things Have Changed," Bob Dylan is one of only two people to have an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize.

Iranians may remember Trump as the president who took on some of history’s most brutal dictators and gave their countries a ...

She was recognized in 1945 for three “Soñetos de la Muerte” (“Sonnets of Death”), which were first published in Chile in 1922.

Nobel laureate and economics and history Prof. Joel Mokyr answered students’ queries about topics including technology, economic growth and human progress in a Q&A session Tuesday evening. “This is ...

As tensions escalate between the United States, Israel and Iran, political economist Nco Dube argues that the familiar ...

Wannabe Nobel Laureate Donald Trump has now ordered more attacks against a greater number of countries than any other president in modern U.S. history. On the campaign trail, Trump repeatedly pledged ...