News from Nobelprize.org
December 15, 2006
”The key to success is ultimately focus”. So said Roger Kornberg, this year’s Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, when interviewed last week while visiting Stockholm to participate in the festivities honouring the 2006 Nobel Laureates. Whatever your focus, something within the extraordinarily broad scope of the awarded work will surely prove inspirational.
This year’s Prizes encompass the atomic and the cosmic, the macro and the micro, and even East and West. In the sciences, they range from Roger Kornberg’s studies of the individual components of the molecular machines that read our DNA to the mapping of the early universe accomplished by John Mather and George Smoot in their detection of the afterglow left behind by the Big Bang. In societal terms, they extend from Muhammad Yunus’ development of microcredit for the poorest of people to Edmund Phelps’ research on inflation/employment cycles and capital accumulation. And in the writing of Orhan Pamuk, the reader experiences both Europe and Asia, often combined within the person of a single character.
Below you will find just a selection of highlights from the week’s events in Stockholm and Oslo. Do please e-mail us at editor@nobelprize.org to let us know your thoughts on the materials you find at Nobelprize.org.
Adam Smith
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EXPERIENCE THE NOBEL PRIZE AWARD CEREMONY
December 10th, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, is also the date on which the Laureates in Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Economics and Literature receive their Prizes in Stockholm.
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PRESENTING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
"Dr. Yunus is a man who long ago should have won the Nobel Prize and I'll keep saying that until they finally give it to him." So said Bill Clinton, according to Professor Ole Danbolt Mjøs, who presented Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank with the Nobel Peace Prize in a ceremony in Oslo on December 10th.
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CATCH UP ON THIS YEAR’S NOBEL LECTURES
Each Nobel Laureate is required to give a public lecture. If you missed the live webcasts, you can still view all the lectures as video on demand files.
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"THE ONE THING I LOOK FOR IS CHEMISTRY"
In an interview recorded in Stockholm’s Grand Hotel, Roger Kornberg describes his approach to research, his motivation to explore the problems he has worked on for 30 years, and how he selects and mentors his student collaborators.
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WHY DO YOU WRITE?
Orhan Pamuk's answers to this question, along with the frequently asked "How does it feel to get the Nobel Prize?" formed the basis for his brief and entertaining after dinner speech at the Nobel Banquet.
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DESIGN CLASSICS
The Nobel Prize diplomas are extraordinary things in themselves. Each one individually designed, they carry a hand-lettered text on the right hand page and, except in the case of those issued by Karolinska Institutet, a unique work of art on the left. View our gallery of this year’s diplomas.
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DRESSING-UP!
Visit Nobelprize.org’s very own catwalk, presenting the evening gowns worn by Queen Silvia from her first appearance at the Nobel Ceremony in 1976 to the present day.
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