Nobel Prize

Expert Reactions | Published: 17 October 201720 August 2018

For the first time, scientists have measured the violent death spiral of two dense neutron stars via gravitational waves. This […]

Expert Reactions, In the News | Published: 09 October 201328 March 2016

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to the theorists who predicted the Higgs Boson particle 50 years before […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 10 October 201210 October 2012

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Serge Haroche and David J. Winelan. The Laureates independently invented […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 06 October 201106 October 2011

Israeli physicist Daniel Shechtman was last night awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his discovery of “quasicrystals” in metals […]

In the News | Published: 22 July 2010

Tom Hunt writes for the Dominion Post about the gift by Gayl Gentile of her husband Alan MacDiarmid’s nobel prize […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 05 October 2009

Hobart-born scientist, Dr Elizabeth Blackburn is one of three scientists to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 09 December 200816 December 2008

100 years ago — on 10 Dec 1908 — New Zealand’s most preeminent scientist, Ernest Rutherford, received the Nobel Prize […]