All posts tagged "Nobel Prize"

The American ambassador to Poland had a meltdown Thursday after the country's parliament speaker said President Donald Trump wasn't worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ambassador Tom Rose, a MAGA ally, raged over the comment Thursday in a post on X after Parliament Speaker Wlodzimierz Czarzasty did not agree that Trump was a good potential recipient of the famed prize, The Daily Beast reported.

"Effective immediately, we will have no further dealings, contacts, or communications with Marshal of the Sejm Czarzasty, whose outrageous and unprovoked insults directed against President Trump @POTUS has made himself a serious impediment to our excellent relations with Prime Minister Tusk and his government," Rose wrote. "We will not permit anyone to harm U.S.–Polish relations, nor disrespect @realDonaldTrump, who has done so much for Poland and the Polish people."...

A Nobel Prize winner who compared President Donald Trump to a dictator and had his U.S. Visa revoked, referred to receiving a “rather curious love letter from the embassy," mocked the president, and said he must have "struck a nerve."

Nigerian author and playwright Wole Soyinka, 91, was speaking to reporters in Lagos, Nigeria, when he mentioned that the U.S. consulate asked him to bring his visa and passport so it could be voided, The Daily Beast reported Tuesday. Soyinka was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.

"I like people who have a sense of humour, and this is one of the most humorous sentences or requests I’ve had in all my life,” Soyinka said. ...

For a scientist to win a Nobel Prize, many things have to come together -- ample funding, a supportive environment, even luck. But one rarely recognized factor may be more important than any other: democracy.

The tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel awards were handed to dozens of scientists, including those who confirmed drunk people think they are more attractive and studied the onion enzyme that makes us cry.

Robert Edwards, the British scientist awarded a Nobel prize for his pioneering work in developing in vitro fertilisation (IVF), died on Monday aged 87, his university announced.