Nature says the Nobel bodies should widen who is invited to nominate, after men won every 2026 chemistry, physics, medicine and economics prize. Its case turns on the invitation letters, and the counts it cites are too small to show whether the 2018 outreach worked.
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Robert Hall and Michael Woodford won the 2026 Nobel economics prize for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation. The link to central-bank rate signaling comes from Seoul Economic Daily's account of Woodford's work.
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Michael Woodford, 71, a joint Nobel economics winner, named forward guidance first as his research in use, a practice Fed Chair Kevin Warsh scrapped. The Fed is now scaling back advance signaling on its rate path, en.sedaily.com reported, so markets have less to read.
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Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 chemistry Nobel for work on molecules that come in two mirror-image forms. The first two reports describe the achievement differently, so whether it bears on how chiral drugs are made has to wait for the committee's own documents.
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Francis Halzen, who leads the IceCube observatory at the South Pole, won the 2026 physics Nobel for detecting high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources. The committee's citation names the observatory alongside the discovery, so the instrument in the Antarctic ice is part of what the prize honours.
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