Articles about Nobel Prize

As graduates push back on AI, UW’s Nobel-winning commencement speaker takes different approach

Nobel laureate Mary Brunkow will be the featured speaker at Saturday’s 151st commencement. She’s a scientist, not a tech executive — and unlike other graduation speakers this season, she’s not planning to sell students on AI. Read More

From the ‘scurfy’ mouse to the Nobel Prize: How a Seattle biotech pioneer’s long game paid off

From a Bill Gates-backed startup in the mid ’90s to the Nobel stage in 2025, Fred Ramsdell reveals how “patient capital” and a mutation found in a 1940s mouse helped unlock immune system secrets. Read More

How a scrappy biotech startup backed by Microsoft’s co-founders set the stage for two Nobel winners

The groundbreaking immunology research behind two Nobel Prizes awarded this week traces back to a largely forgotten biotech startup backed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Read More

‘Seattle biotech is on fire’: Industry produces three Nobel Prize winners in two years

Mary Brunkow of the Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology, Fred Ramsdell of Sonoma Biotherapeutics, and David Baker of the UW’s Institute for Protein Design were honored for their research. Read More

Seattle scientists Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell win Nobel Prize for immunology research

Seattle scientist Mary Brunkow of the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) won a Nobel Prize for research on the immune cells that prevent our body from attacking itself. Read More

University of Washington’s David Baker wins Nobel Prize for designing proteins

University of Washington biochemist David Baker has won a share of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for more than… Read More

A Nobel Prize for fighting climate change? Seattle couple proposes a world-changing recognition

Helene Costa was devastated by the October report from international climate scientists that spelled out a dire future for Earth… Read More

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Chilled-down views of biomolecules win chemistry Nobel Prize for international trio

This year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry recognizes the invention of cryo-electron microscopy, a method for chilling down biomolecules to produce… Read More

No-surprise Nobel: LIGO physicists win prize for gravitational wave discoveries

This year’s Nobel Prize for physics is going, unsurprisingly, to three people who represent the hundreds of researchers behind the first… Read More

UW alumnus shares medicine Nobel Prize for research into biological clocks

The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine was awarded today for research into biological clocks that was conducted by three… Read More

UW’s David Thouless wins share of Nobel physics prize for weird science of superconductors

David Thouless, a British-born professor emeritus at the University of Washington, has been awarded half of this year’s Nobel physics… Read More