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Other lives: Refugee from Czechoslovakia who became a maths teacher after settling in the UK

Work is getting underway on the new campus at last

A Nobel prize-winning Russian journalist said on Friday he did not believe that arrested American reporter Evan Gershkovich was a spy, and that he hoped diplomacy could bring about his quick release.

Sir Arthur Lewis became the London School of Economics’s first Black academic in 1938, and now has a building named in his honour

Other lives: Warwick University economics professor and World Bank development economist

Annie Ernaux, the 2022 Nobel literature laureate, has backed calls for a thorough investigation after four female students said they were sexually assaulted by police in the western city of Nantes following a protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply contentious pension reform.

Other lives: Sociology professor who studied labour relations and trade unions in post-Soviet Russia

Professor Christine Holt shares the Brain Prize with two other neuroscientists.

Caffarelli, 74, takes top trophy for work on partial differential equations, the first winner from South America

After Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, shaking world markets, Nobel economics prize winner Joseph Stiglitz says US authorities "did the right thing" by providing federal money to protect deposits. But the economist also says the financial system needs a rethink to properly bring it into the digital era.

Other lives: Research scientist whose expertise was in theoretical surface chemistry