Our Nobel Prize winners The University of Manchester has a rich academic history. We can lay claim to 26 Nobel laureates among our current and former staff and students. Joseph John Thomson 1906 Nobel ...

The researcher who developed induced pluripotent stem cells, the biochemist who invented DNA microarrays, and the immunologist who discovered dendritic cells are just a few of the scientists whose ...

The physicist JJ Thomson — another Nobel winner — famously and erroneously proposed that atoms lacked a nucleus, but that doesn’t make his previous discovery of the electron any less important.

2007 Nobel: Place your bets! We'll all find out who takes this year's Nobel Prizes the morning they do (sometime next week), but there are some early predictions.

Winners of the prestigious Nobel prizes this year will receive an extra 1 million crowns ($110,000), the head of the foundation which oversees the awards said on Thursday.

When Pierre Curie learnt he was about to share the Nobel Prize for physics with Henri Becquerel for their separate investigations into radioactivity, he insisted that his own laboratory partner ...

The Nobel Prize gold medal awarded to the U.S. scientist and co-discoverer of DNA, James Watson, sold at auction on Thursday for more than $4.7 million, smashing the world record price for any ...