https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed This year's Nobel Prize for Physics honoured Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, Swiss astronomers who proved the existence of a planet orbiting a star far beyond the Earth's solar system. https://www.thelocal.ch/20191009/exoplanets-super-earths-and-alien-life-what-you-need-to-know-about-switzerlands-nobel-prize-win Wed, 09 Oct 2019 10:37:38 +0200 exoplanets-super-earths-and-alien-life-what-you-need-to-know-about-switzerlands-nobel-prize-win Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, along with Canadian-American James Peebles, have won the Nobel Physics Prize for their work in cosmology. https://www.thelocal.ch/20191008/swiss-cosmologists-win-nobel Tue, 08 Oct 2019 14:35:29 +0200 swiss-cosmologists-win-nobel Only days after Swiss scientist Dubochet shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Stockholm-based academy awarded the anti nuclear campaign organization this year's Nobel Prize for Peace. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171006/geneva-based-organization-for-nuclear-disarmament-wins-2017-nobel-peace-prize Fri, 06 Oct 2017 14:50:47 +0200 geneva-based-organization-for-nuclear-disarmament-wins-2017-nobel-peace-prize Jacques Dubochet, a Swiss professor of biophysics at the University of Lausanne, was on Wednesday jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry with his colleagues. https://www.thelocal.ch/20171004/lausanne-university-professor-wins-nobel-prize-for-chemistry Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:29:32 +0200 lausanne-university-professor-wins-nobel-prize-for-chemistry Scientists at the Geneva-based lab that discovered the "God particle" popped champagne Tuesday, ecstatic over the Nobel Physics Prize award for its theoreticians Peter Higgs and François Englert. https://www.thelocal.ch/20131008/geneva-lab-celebrates-physicists-nobel-prize Tue, 08 Oct 2013 18:02:00 +0200 geneva-lab-celebrates-physicists-nobel-prize