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 (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 ...

It had to be a prank. At least that’s what physicist Michel H. Devoret first thought when he heard last week that he’d won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Devoret, the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor ...

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.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three researchers who probed the process of business innovation won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for explaining how new products and inventions promote economic growth ...

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 ...