Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old Pakistani education activist who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban for her work, became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. She'll share the award with India's Kailash Satyarthi, 60, a child rights activist and founder of Save the Childhood Movement.

Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller won the Nobel Prize for Economics on Monday morning. The three American professors – Fama and Hansen from the University of Chicago, and Shiller from Yale — developed new methods to study long-term trends in the stock market.

The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the United Nations-backed group in charge of destroying Syria's chemical arms.

Canadian short story writer Alice Munro won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature this morning. Munro, 82, retired earlier this year, several months after publishing Dear Life, her 14^th story collection

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three American researchers for their computer simulations of “complex chemical systems” like photosynthesis and combustion. Martin Karplus of Harvard, Michael Levitt of Stanford, and Arieh Warshel of USC will share the prize as well as its $1.2 million payout

Two Americans and a German-born researcher won the 2013 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday. James Rothman, Randy Schenkman and Thomas Suedhof, all of whom work at U.S. universities, were awarded the prize for their discoveries on how hormones, enzymes, and other substances move within cells.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which some refer to as "the Gay Super Bowl of Chemistry," has been awarded to 70-year-old Israeli scientist Daniel Schechtman for his discovery of "quasicrystals." It sounds like something you might buy on QVC, but they are actually metal atoms arranged in such a way as to resemble Islamic mosaics, and they have significantly altered how chemists view solid matter.

The world's premier gambling event, the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature, happens on Thursday. Who's gonna win? Bob Dylan? (No.) Here are your betting odds!

These recorded phone calls to Nobel Prize winners are pretty funny. German chemist Gerhard Ertl is rude!

A historical tally of Nobel Prize winners shows that Americans have racked up 323 awards, more than twice as many as any other country. The U.S. leads in every category except literature, which is for sissies anyway. Take that, statistics!

[Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa gets out of a cab in New York today after being named the recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in literature. Image via AP]

Once again, an American writer did not win the Nobel Prize in literature. Some weirdo Peruvian named Mario Vargas Llosa, who wrote like definitive chronicles of military dictatorships or whatever, won the damn thing. Next year, Jodi Picoult. Next year.

British scientist Robert Edwards, who created the first test tube baby in 1978, has won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

The Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced October 7 in Sweden. We've got your betting odds right here, fresh from international oddsmakers Ladbrokes. Now you can totally dominate your office Nobel Prize in Literature pool. (You have one, right?)

As White House spokespeople are constantly saying on television, Energy Secretary Steven Chu is a Nobel laureate. Now he's down in the Gulf working hard to fix the oil spill. But do the BP bullies respect his magical powers?

[Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith were shadowed by the blue light of hope while hosting the Nobel Peace Prize Concert at Oslo Spektrum in Norway today. Image via Getty]

Barack Obama's Peace Prize acceptance speech started off humble, sounded kinda defensive, and it even got, weirdly, a bit Bush-y. But on the whole: it was pretty damn good!

Most recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize luxuriate in it — they accept invitations to lunch with the Norwegian king, go to concerts, give press conferences. Not Barack Obama. He's doing the drive-through Nobel experience.

Self magazine editor Lucy Danziger should be awarded some sort of prize—the Nobel people should establish a new category, if necessary—because she chooses to ride a bicycle to work.

On the occasion of this wonderful op-ed on how Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is a violation of our nation's founding document, let us examine the recent crimes of the Washington Post opinion section.