Joel Mokyr was lauded by the Nobel committee Monday for demonstrating how innovations become a “self-generating process.” ...

A native of the west Chicago suburb of Elmhurst is one of three scientists awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine, for ...

Chen Ning Yang (Ph.D. ’48), a Nobel Prize–winning physicist whose research transformed understanding of how particles behaved ...

Chen Ning Yang, a world-renowned and Nobel Prize-winning scientist who made revolutionary contributions to our understanding ...

Northwestern's Joel Mokyr, along with Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, are awarded the Nobel memorial prize in economics ...

At the Nobel Prize Dialogue in Mumbai — in association with the Tata Trusts — Nobel laureates James Robinson and David ...

Richard Thaler thinks retail investors shouldn't be trading individual stocks, and such trading is more like entertainment ...

Investors are betting big on AI, but Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler isn't sold on all the promised returns.

In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated quantum effects in an electric circuit, an advance that underlies today’s quantum computers.

Supporters of President Donald Trump want him to win a Nobel Peace Prize, but would he respect the solemnity of the occasion?

A Northwestern University professor has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his historical studies on sustained economic growth through technological progress. Joel Mokyr, who has ...