Nobel Peace Prize Politicised to Boost Western Interests? with Palki Sharma

A critical review of the current and several past Nobel Peace Prize winners.

Daughter Ana Accepts Nobel Peace Prize for María Corina Machado from Venezuela, Slams Maduro Regime

Very recommendable!

Bravo to the Nobel Prize committee to choose Maria Corina Machado!

Metal-organic frameworks: Nobel-winning tiny ‘sponge crystals’ with an astonishing amount of inner space

Recommendable! An overview article.

"The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi on Oct. 8, 2025, for the development of metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, which are tunable crystal structures with extremely high porosity. These are a class of materials that have truly changed the way scientists design and think about matter, inspiring progress in various applications. ...

Metal-organic frameworks are like crystalline scaffolds built from two ingredients: metals that act like connective joints and organic – that is, carbon-based – molecules that behave as bridges to link those joints in a repeating pattern. ...

So far, scientists have synthesized over 90,000 MOFs, and computational chemists have predicted hundreds of thousands more. Few material families offer this much versatility. ..."

Metal-organic frameworks: Nobel-winning tiny ‘sponge crystals’ with an astonishing amount of inner space

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Female Nobel Peace Prize 2025 recipient from Venezuela dedicates her award to President Trump

This seems to be highly unusual!

"Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado on Friday dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump and his support for her cause after the Nobel Committee again declined to bestow Trump himself with the award. ..."

"Prize motivation: “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”"

"Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country and dedicated the award in part to U.S. President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly insisted he deserved it.

Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer who lives in hiding, was blocked in 2024 by Venezuela's courts from running for president and thus challenging President Nicolas Maduro, who has been in power since 2013. ..."

Nobel Peace Prize recipient dedicates award to President Trump | Just The News "Trump has openly lobbied for the award for many years and he has earned several nominations."

Venezuela's opposition leader Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize, dedicates to Trump

Maria Corina Machado Facts

Maria Corina Machado

How could this recognition shape future research or innovation in immunology

Recommendable! There are already about 200 clinical trials going on based on these  basic research findings.

Meet Irene Curie, the Nobel-winning atomic physicist who together with her husband discovered artificial radioactivity

Very recommendable! The many similarities between Marie Curie & Pierre Curie and Irene Curie &  Frederic Joliot are stunning!

She was homeschooled!

"The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the daughter of two Nobel Prize laureates, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, and was herself awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1935 together with her husband, Frederic Joliot.

While her parents received the prize for the discovery of natural radioactivity, Irene’s prize was for the synthesis of artificial radioactivity. This discovery changed many fields of science and many aspects of our everyday lives. Artificial radioactivity is used today in medicine, agriculture, energy production, food sterilization, industrial quality control and more. ...

World War I started in 1914, when Irene was only 17, and she interrupted her studies to help her mother find fragments of bombs in wounded soldiers using portable X-ray machines. She soon became an expert in these wartime radiology techniques, and on top of performing the measurements herself, she also spent time training nurses to use the X-ray machines.

After the war, Irene went back to her studies in her mother’s lab at the Radium Institute. This is where she met fellow researcher Frederic Joliot, whom she later married. The two worked together on many projects, which led them to their major breakthrough in 1934. ..."

Meet Irene Curie, the Nobel-winning atomic physicist who changed the course of modern cancer treatment

Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie shared the Nobel Prize in 1935. 

"In Irene and Frederic’s experiments, an isotope of aluminum was hit with an alpha particle (two neutrons and two protons bound together). The collision resulted in two protons and a neutron from the alpha particle binding to the aluminum, making it an isotope of phosphorus, which decayed, releasing a particle called a positron." 

"Scientists graph the known isotopes in the chart of nuclei. They have discovered roughly 3,000 radioisotopes (shown with cyan boxes) and predict the existence of another 4,000 radioisotopes (shown with gray boxes)."

Trump left in awe by ‘beautiful’ reporter Veras Victoria: ‘Could be the end of my political career’

Very recommendable! POTUS for Nobel Peace Prize. He said she was beautiful on the inside too. 😊

White House teases new countries joining Abraham Accords

Good news! Bravo! Blessed are the peacemakers!

Nominate President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize!

"The White House thinks there will be "big announcements on countries that are coming into the Abraham Accords," the Trump administration's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said on Wednesday during an interview with CNBC. ..."

White House teases new countries joining Abraham Accords | The Jerusalem Post ""One of the President's key objectives is that the Abraham Accords be expanded," Witkoff told CNBC."

‘Delighted’: Elon Musk nominated for 2025 Nobel Peace Prize over free speech advocacy by Rowan Dean

Very recommendable! Excellent opinion piece!

Hayek's Nobel 50 Years On

Let's celebrate!

"Margaret Thatcher herself reportedly slammed The Constitution of Liberty by Hayek on a desk at a Conservative Party meeting, declaring “This is what we believe!”"

The Road to Serfdom never ends unless you do something about it!

Hayek's Nobel 50 Years On

This book, published 1960, now fetches prices between $2000-$3000

Published 1944

South Korean female author Han Kang wins 2024 literature Nobel prize, but her works renew attention on Gwangju Uprising

Recommendable! Congratulations to the author! However, there seems to be some controversy about her works, which I am not familiar with.

Very few Asians have received this Nobel Prize so far (2 Chinese, 1 Japanese)

MicroRNA − Nobel laureate Victor Ambros describes the scientific process of discovering these microRNA together with his wife Rosalind Lee

Recommendable!

Why the Nobel Prize committee did not include Rosalind Lee, the first author and wife of Victor Ambros? I am glad Victor corrects this mistake in this interview. What a gentleman! 😊

"...

You mentioned Rosalind, she’s your wife.

Yeah, we’ve been together since 1976. And we started to work together in the mid-’80s. And so we’re still working together today.

And she was the first author on that paper.

That’s right. It’s hard to express how wonderful it is to receive such validation of this work that we did together. That is just priceless. ..."

MicroRNA − a new Nobel laureate describes the scientific process of discovering these tiny molecules that turn genes on and off

Victor Ambros and Rosalind Lee toast the Nobel news on the day of the announcement.

Unpacking the 2024 Nobel-Winning Oversimplifications of Political Economy

Recommendable!

I also have the impression that the three laureates of the Nobel Prize in economics of 2024 are not very convincing. As an economist myself I was not aware of these three economists and their work!

What seems to be also very obvious is the three economists preoccupation with European colonialism or eurocentrism as if Europeans were the only colonialists! Economics has little to do with Europe!

"... To professional economists, this award is no surprise, because these economists are giants in the field of political economy [???]. In fact, until their work broke out in the early 2000s, the field of political economy was neglected within economics [for a good reason (politics and science don't mix) it was neglected]. ...

Acemoglu and Robinson wrote up a lot of this work in a way that was accessible to the layperson in their book, Why Nations Fail. ... While its account is broadly consistent with the more rigorous papers mentioned above, the book certainly plays fast and loose with its concepts of political institutions. Instead of focusing on protection of private property and contracts, the authors label their favored rules “inclusive institutions,” strongly implying throughout the text that democracy, understood as majority rule with universal suffrage, promotes economic development. The only trouble is that the institutions they find that promote development are not necessarily democratic in that sense, but have a lot more to do with simple rule of law and constraints on arbitrary power. ...

 One critique is that good policies, not good institutions, promote development — and thus dictatorships [like in Chile in the 1970s or early Singapore or China since the 1980s] can promote growth just as democracies can. ..."

Unpacking the Nobel-Winning Oversimplifications of Political Economy | The Daily Economy

Nobel-winning economist Simon Johnson on what causes prosperity gaps between nations

This Nobel laureate in economics is also not very convincing like Daron Acemoglu!

Noble Prize laureate Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail

Not sure why this guy was awarded with a Nobel Prize in economics! Too much politics and history!

Take his remarks about the first settlers in the north-east of the US! They tried to exploit the indigenous population, but this population was too sparse so they had to become farmers.

As an economist myself, I have not heard of this guy before!

Winner of Nobel Prize in chemistry Demis Hassabis (CEO of Google Deepmind) describes how his work could transform lives

Recommendable! He is also a great believer in human ingenuity!

Google wins Nobel Prize in chemistry with AlphaFold for protein structure prediction and design

This is the second Nobel Prize for machine learning & AI this year! Amazing!

"The 2024 Nobel prize in chemistry has been awarded to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work on computational tools to design proteins and predict their structures. This year it’s a prize of two halves. Baker, at the University of Washington, US, was recognised for his work on computationally designed proteins. Meanwhile, Hassabis and Jumper from Google’s DeepMind team were recognised for developing the machine-learning based programs AlphaFold and AlphaFold2, which predict the 3D structure of proteins based on their amino acid sequences. ..."

🧪 Re:action: Chemistry Nobel prize awarded to protein design and protein structure prediction

Fig. 1: AlphaFold produces highly accurate structures. (Source)

Er zweifelte lebenslang an seiner Berufswahl, verlor zwei Ehefrauen an Krebs, kaufte sich eine Insel: Geoffrey Hintons Weg zum Nobelpreis

Zum schicksalhaften Leben eines Nobelpreisträgers! Habe mehrfach über Hinton gebloggt.

Sein beruflicher Werdegang erinnert mich etwas an mich selbst. Ich habe erst im hohen alter angefangen machine learning & AI zu studieren als Autodidakt!

Hinweis: Habe den Artikel nicht gelesen.

Pate der künstlichen Intelligenz: Geoffrey Hintons Weg zum Nobelpreis "Als Student war Geoffrey Hinton ziemlich verloren. Er probierte Biologie aus, Kunstgeschichte, Philosophie, bis er schliesslich etwas fand, was ihn mehr als alles andere faszinierte: die mathematischen Grundlagen des Denkens."

Physics Nobel goes to machine-learning pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

Good news! Well deserved! Machine learning & AI has finally arrived as a serious science!

I am surprised that the other two of the three godfathers  of ML & AI, i.e. Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, were not recognized for their research.

I have blogged several times about Geoffrey Hinton. Some of his political views are naive at best.

"... In 1982, Hopfield, a theoretical biologist with a background in physics, came up with a network that described connections between virtual neurons as physical forces. By storing patterns as a low-energy state of the network, the system could re-create the pattern when prompted with something similar. It became known as associative memory, because the way in which it ‘recalls’ things is similar to the brain trying to remember a word or concept based on related information.

Hinton, a computer scientist, used principles from statistical physics, which collectively describes systems that have too many parts to track individually, to further develop the ‘Hopfield network’. By building probabilities into a layered version of the network, he created a tool that could recognize and classify images, or generate new examples of the type it was trained on. ..."

Physics Nobel scooped by machine-learning pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton pioneered computational methods that enabled the development of neural networks.

Will Ethiopia's Red Sea Port Deal with Somaliland Lead to War? with Palki Sharma

Recommendable! Concerning! More tensions in a volatile region!