Elinor Ostrom today became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in its forty year history. The Nobel Prize in various categories has been awarded to women 41 times between 1901 and 2009. Marie Curie was been honoured twice so that makes a total of 40 women who have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2009.

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2009 was awarded to Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson for their work in economic governance. Ostrom was the first woman to win the prize since it was founded in 1968, and the fifth woman to win a Nobel award this year — a Nobel record.

The 2009 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded today to Romanian-born German writer Herta Mueller (Müller). Born August 17, 1953, Mueller is a highly prolific novelist and essayist whose works portray the human destruction of the Romanian dictatorship and the rootlessness of the political exile. Her novels include “The Land of Green Plums” and “The Appointment.”

Earlier this year, respected economist Paul Krugman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. On Sunday, three days before the Nobel Prize ceremony, Krugman said that the U.S. automotive industry was doomed.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2008 jointly to Osamu Shimomura, Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, and Boston University Medical School, Martin Chalfie, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP".

US trio Leonid Hurwicz, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson have won the 2007 Nobel Economics Prize for their pioneering work on how to design solutions for complex economic and social tasks.

Rumors that Al Gore might win the Nobel Peace Prize put the former Vice President back in the world spotlight today, fueling speculations of another presidential run.

The the Swedish Academy announced Thursday that Doris Lessing, a British writer, had won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature. She was said to be "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny."

Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces, a key to understanding the effects of pollution on the ozone layer.

Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D., distinguished professor of human genetics and biology at the University of Utah's Eccles Institute of Human Genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology 2007 winners are the following scientists "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mice by the use of embryonic stem cells"

Bisi Ojediran, the author of the bestseller, "The Governor's Wife", has dedicated his new Peter Abel novel to Dr. Mo Ibrahim.