Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018

Their work revolutionised cancer care

“When I meet patients who tell me: ‘You saved my life,’ it is an unforgettable moment.” Read about laureates James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo and their discovery of a new cancer therapy.
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Nobel Prize in Literature 1996

Poetry that links the past with the present

The Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska has been described as a “Mozart of poetry”, her words falling into place with a veritable ease. She wrote around 400 poems during her lifetime, using common everyday images to reflect on larger truths about love, death and passing time. In 1996 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for poetry that with ironic precision allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fragments of human reality.”

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Wisława Szymborska at the Swedish Academy.

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The impossible takes longer

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Nobel Prize Conversations

“For me, research is also the interaction with other people that is so important”

What are the benefits of creating a diverse laboratory? In this podcast episode, physicist Anne L’Huillier speaks about the importance of diversity and how she herself speaks and thinks in three languages. Also up for discussion are the consequences of becoming a Nobel Prize laureate. L’Huillier sees both the good and bad sides, including being a source of inspiration while having less time to write her new scientific textbook.
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Anne L’Huillier showing her Nobel Prize medal during a visit to the Nobel Foundation on 11 December 2023.

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Kristian Berg Harpviken new Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute

Kristian Berg Harpviken will become the new Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. He is currently Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). “I have worked with peace my entire life, so for me, this is the dream job,” says Dr Harpviken.

The Norwegian Nobel Institute serves as the secretariat for the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize since the very beginning in 1901.
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Kristian Berg Harpviken.

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  • Nobel Prize Conversations, Madrid

    The Impossible Takes Longer

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    Just sometimes, everyone else is wrong. They insist that your idea won’t work, your finding is wrong, your scheme is mad. For many Nobel Prize laureates, that was the starting point.

  • Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm

    These things changed the world

    Museum insides

    For the first time, the Nobel Prize Museum is displaying a large selection of items from its collection of artefacts from Nobel Prize laureates. 

  • Nobel Peace Center, Oslo

    Woman – life – freedom

    Museum insides

    The Peace Prize Exhibition, which is also named after this slogan, tells the story of Narges Mohammadi through her own words and images.

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  • Nobel Prize in Physics 2023

    Electrons in pulses of light

    Illustration of two electrons, illustrating the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023.

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”

  • Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023

    They added colour to nanotechnology

    An illustration of a bucket of paint with coloured balls beneath it, representing quantum dots.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexey Yekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”

  • Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023

    Vaccine development

    A blue background with COVID-19 virus and a yellow strand of modified mRNA. Also shown is the chemical structure of pseudouridine, an RNA base that was important in the prize-awarded discovery. The graphic represents the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Katalin Karinkó and Drew Weissman who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

    The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 was awarded jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.”

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In memoriam

Alice Munro dies aged 92

Canadian author Alice Munro passed away on 15 May 2024. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 with the motivation “master of the contemporary short story”.

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Neuroscientist Roger Guillemin dies

Roger Guillemin passade away on 21 February, age 100. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977 for discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain.

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Herbert Kroemer 1928‒2024

Physicist Herbert Kroemer passed away on 8 March 2024, age 95. He was awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics.

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