Physics laureate Donna Strickland, left, receives the prize from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden, during the Nobel Prize award ceremony, at the Stockholm Concert Hall, in Stockholm.

The Nobel laureates seated on the podium at the Stockholm Concert Hall during the Nobel Prize award ceremony, in Stockholm. The Nobel laureates are seated in the front row at left ...

The Peace Prize laureates Dr. Denis Mukwege from Congo and Nadia Murad from Iraq, left, pose with their medals during the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo Town Hall, Oslo. Dr. De...

Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi meets Pope Francis during a call on, in Vatican City. Satyarthi sought Pope's support for a new legally binding international law against gro...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hugs Nobel peace prize winner Iraqi Yazidi's Nadia Murad Basee Taha at the Paris Peace Forum as part of the commemoration ceremony for Armist...

Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who escaped the Islamic State and a co-recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, reacts while speaking at a news conference at the International Federation ...

French president Emmanuel Macron, right, accompanies Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who escaped the Islamic State and a co-recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, after their meeting at...

Nadia Murad, co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, reacts while speaking at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington.

The Nobel prize laureate in medicine or physiology 2018 is shown on the screen as James P Allison, left, and Tasuku Honjo, during the presentation at the Karolinska Institute in St...

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Director Derek Doneen, Kailash Satyarthi and producer Sarah Anthony, from left, pose for a portrait to promote the film "Kailash," at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festi...

The scene is set for the Nobel award ceremony in the Concert house in Stockholm, Sweden.

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), activist and Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow speaks in Oslo City Hall after the ICAN officially received the Nobel Peac...

Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize 2017, Beatrice Fihn, the executive of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) gives her acceptance speech in Oslo City Hall, Norwa...

Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize 2017, representatives of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), with leader of the Nobel committee Berit Reiss-Andersen, lef...

For Shame

Jeans, boots and bomber jacket may be de rigueur for other Oxford students, but not for a young Nobel winner who almost gave her life for an ideal. A photo showing Mal­ala Yousafz...

Beatrice Fihn, left, of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, arrives for a press conference, at the headquarters of the International campaign to abolish Nu...

Beatrice Fihn, left, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Daniel Hogsta, center, coordinator nd Grethe Ostern, right, member of the s...

Richard Henderson, one of the 2017 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, holds a bacterio rhodopsin model prior to a press conference at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridg...

Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, centre right, speaks with school girls in Maiduguri Nigeria. Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai was greeted with cheers by dozens of young w...