What is the Nobel Prize? The Nobel Prize is a set of awards given each year to those who “conferred the greatest benefit to humankind,” founder Alfred Nobel said. Nobel was an inventor ...

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons.

The winner of the annual Nobel Peace Prize is set to be announced on Friday. The title has been bestowed upon U.S. presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, activists Wangari Maathai and Malala ...

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons ...

This year's Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to a Japanese organisation of atomic bomb survivors. Nobel Committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen praised the "extraordinary efforts" of the Nihon ...

The coveted Nobel Prizes are announced annually, and last year's lineup featured several American winners. A Harvard economics professor won, as well as University of Pennsylvania researchers ...