Laureates in the Economic Sciences, Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress.

Krasznahorkai, the second Hungarian to win the prize, has been described as the postmodern "m"Master of the apocalypse"

Trio of Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M Yaghi are awarded the prestigious award jointly in the field of ‘Metal Organic Frameworks’

The Award is bestowed for “Discovery of Macroscopic Quantum Mechanical Tunnelling and Energy Quantization in an Electric Circuit”