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 discovering how the immune system is kept in check.

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

Colin Jost began Weekend Update on this week’s Saturday Night Live by ripping into President Donald Trump’s failure to obtain the Nobel Peace Prize. Referencing Trump’s deployment of federal troops ...

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 ...