Nobel Prize

A Quebec-born scientist who has contributed to research that won his collaborator this year's Nobel Prize in Physics says he hopes to inspire Canadians to value science.

High school student Andy Wei wants to get more of his peers engaged in economics, so he created the Canadian Economics Olympiad. Top participants in an upcoming event can secure a spot on a national team to compete in a virtual global competition.

Xiye Bastida, a young climate activist from Mexico, urged scientists and world leaders to pay attention to traditional Indigenous knowledge in addition to their usual information sources as she spoke at the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit.

Canadian author Alice Munro and dozens of other Nobel Prize winners around the world have joined the heated opposition facing a massive oilsands project in northern Alberta, decrying the proposed development as "a disgrace."

It will be a busy day full of toasts and celebrations for James Peebles, the Canadian scientist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday, October 8, 2019, but he said the night will hopefully end like any other — with "a quiet dinner" with his wife.

A Canadian scientist who became one of just three women to win the Nobel Prize for Physics received her award at a formal ceremony in Sweden on Monday, December 10, 2018, as supporters at her Ontario university cheered her on from halfway across the world.

A Canadian scientist who became only the third woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics said her personal triumph doubles as a sign of progress for her male-dominated industry.

A Canadian professor ended a 55-year drought for female physicists today, October 2, 2018, when she was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for physics, becoming only the third woman to ever win it.

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is the sixth person in history to become an honorary citizen of Canada.