Nobel

Newly opened archives at the Swedish Academy have revealed the depth of concern among Nobel judges for the consequences awaiting Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn if the dissident Soviet writer were awarded the prize for literature in 1970. The author of One Day … Read more

Physicist Isamu Akasaki, a co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the world’s first efficient blue light-emitting diodes, has died, Meijo University said Friday. He was 92. Akasaki, a professor at the university, had been recognized for … Read more