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From winners who are famous to those who have been forgotten and western domination in Nobel, a list of the must knows of the Nobel prize (Representational Image)Life
Find out about the controversy, fame and flops for Nobel Literature...

Here's a look at the controversial, famous and forgotten Nobel Prize winners for literature over the years.

5 Oct 2017 9:38 AM IST

In 2016, the award went to Bob Dylan, considered to be someone outside the conventional conception of literature as novels and poetry. (Photo: AP)Life
Academy likely to go for more conventional pick for Literature Nobel...

While committee shocked world last year with unconventional pick, experts believe members will go with more orthodox...

5 Oct 2017 8:58 AM IST

From left, Sara Snogerup Linse, chairman of the Nobel Committee in Chemistry, Goran K. Hansson, secretary of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and Peter Brzezinski, member of the Nobel Committee, sit during a press conference as they announce - Jacques Dubochet - from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Joachim Frank from Columbia University, USA and Richard Henderson, from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, in England as the winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, at the Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017.(Photo: AP)Life
Nobel Prize honors technique for seeing molecules' details

The $1.1 million prize is shared by Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson.

4 Oct 2017 5:51 PM IST

Indian scientists who contributed to the discovery of the gravitational waves described the Nobel Physics Prize win as \a dream come true.\Life
Nobel for gravitational waves a dream come true: Indian contributors

Indian scientists who contributed to the discovery of the gravitational waves described the Nobel Physics Prize win as...

3 Oct 2017 8:23 PM IST

Goran K Hansson, centre, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announces the 2017 Nobel Prize winners in Physics, from top left, Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barrish and Kip S. Thorne. (Photo: AP)Newsmakers
Nobel Physics Prize awarded to three scientists for work on...

Scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions in the observation of gravitational waves.

3 Oct 2017 3:49 PM IST

The Academy is known for its cloak-and-dagger methods to prevent any leaks, resorting to codenames for authors and fake book covers when reading in public. (Photo: AP)Life
Winner of Nobel Prize for literature to be revealed on Thursday

Last year's winner, Bob Dylan, was the first singer songwriter to win the prestigious award, dividing the literary...

2 Oct 2017 4:37 PM IST

Anna Wedell, chairman of the Nobel committee, center, and members of the committee Juleen Zierath, left, and Carlos Ibanez, announce the winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Medicine during a press conference at the Nobel Forum in Stockholm, Monday Oct. 2, 2017. The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to three Americans for discoveries about the bodys daily rhythms. The laureates are Jeffrey c. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young. (Photo: AP)Life
Nobel for medicine give tin 3 Americans for body rhythm work

The laureates are Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young.

2 Oct 2017 4:15 PM IST

Professor Thors Hans Hansson gives a demonstration using a bagel to explain the work of the winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholm, Sweden. (Photo: AFP)Life
Bagels, pretzels, Boo! How to explain science Nobel winners' complex...

Nobel physics committee has a large staff of social media and web experts making sure the information they provide is...

1 Oct 2017 9:46 AM IST

Freuds name was put forward 12 times for a Medicine Prize and once for a Literature Prize but he never won.(Photo: AP)Life
Sigmund Freud and the Nobel Prize trauma

Freud's name was put forward 12 times for a Medicine Prize and once for a Literature Prize but he never won.

30 Sept 2017 2:48 PM IST

Marc-Antoine Fardin, left, accepts his Ig Nobel Physics Prize from Nobel laureate Eric Maskin during ceremonies at Harvard University in Cambridge. (Photo: AP)Life
Ig Nobel awardees answer real questions that are both funny and...

Awards are given out in ten categories ranging from economics and anatomy to medicine and cognition.

16 Sept 2017 11:42 AM IST

Nobel out of reach: Elusive desire for greatnessDiscourse
Nobel out of reach: Elusive desire for greatness

Dalit Bahujans have to be fed, clothed and cared for without adequate cultural or material dividends for the nation.

21 Oct 2018 1:43 AM IST

Nobel out of reach: Black scientist yet to make it to NobelDiscourse
Nobel out of reach: Black scientist yet to make it to Nobel

Change can only be achieved through strong and effective government action, but by definition marginalised groups have...

21 Oct 2018 1:37 AM IST

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