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Monthly January 2025
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They work for a peaceful future for humanity
The grassroots movement Nihon Hidankyo was awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. The members of the movement are survivors of an attack which used a particular type of weapon. Nuclear weapons, chemical weapons or land mines?
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The right answer is nuclear weapons. The Nobel Peace Prize 2024 was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.” Read more about the prize to Nihon Hidankyo here
Monthly December 2024
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The Nobel Prize amount
On 27 November 1895, a year before his death, Alfred Nobel signed the famous will which would implement some of the goals to which he had devoted so much of his life. Nobel stipulated in his will that most of his estate, more than SEK 31 million (today approximately SEK 2.2 billion) should be converted into a fund and invested in “safe securities.” The income from the investments was to be “distributed annually in the form of prizes to those who during the preceding year have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.”
In 1901, the Nobel Prize amount was 150,782 SEK per unshared prize. Do you know the prize amount for 2024? 2 million Swedish kronor (SEK), 6 million Swedish kronor (SEK) or 11 million Swedish kronor (SEK)?
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The right answer is 11 million Swedish kronor (SEK) per prize category.
Monthly November 2024
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 – awarded jointly to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics rewards inventions linked to … what? Exoplanets, attoseconds or artificial intelligence (AI)?
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The right answer is Artificial intelligence (AI). Read more: They used physics to find patterns in information
See all 2024 Nobel Prizes here
Monthly October 2024
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The secrecy rule
Each year, thousands of members of academies, university professors, scientists, previous Nobel Prize laureates, members of parliamentary assemblies and more are asked to submit candidates for the Nobel Prizes for the coming year. Access to information about a given year’s candidates and/or nominators is not given until quite a few years have passed, according to the secrecy rule. Do you know how many years? 25, 50 or 75 years?
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The right answer is 50 years. According to the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation, the prize awarding institutions can never confirm, or deny, whether someone has been nominated for the Nobel Prize until the full list of nominations is made public after 50 years.
Monthly September 2024
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Nominated but never awarded
A well-known leader and pacifist was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times, but was never awarded. Who was it? Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi or Dalai Lama?
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The right answer is Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and, finally, a few days before he was murdered in January 1948. Read more here: Mahatma Gandhi, the missing laureate. Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 and Dalai Lama in 1989.
Monthly August 2024
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Nobel names in the periodic table
Do you know how many elements bear the names of Nobel Prize laureates? 4, 8 or 18?
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The right answer is 8. There are eight elements named after Nobel Prize laureates:
Curium, 96, named after Marie and Pierre Curie, Nobel Prize in Physics 1903
Einsteinium, 99, named after Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize in Physics 1921
Fermium, 100, named after Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize in Physics 1938
Lawrencium, 103, named after Ernest Lawrence, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939
Rutherfordium, 104, named after Ernest Rutherford, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1908
Seaborgium, 106, named after Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1951
Bohrium, 107, named after Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize in Physics 1922
Röntgenium, 111, named after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Nobel Prize in Physics 1901
Monthly July 2024
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Most visited Nobel Prize laureate
Since 1901, the Nobel Prizes and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel have been awarded 621 times to 1,000 people and organisations – scientists, authors as well as peace workers. All of the laureates can be found at nobelprize.org. Do you know which laureate was the most visited on nobelprize.org in 2023? Albert Einstein, Marie Curie or Martin Luther King Jr?
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The right answer is Martin Luther King Jr. Albert Einstein is the second most viewed and Marie Curie comes in third.
Monthly June 2024
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A young Nobel Prize laureate
Lawrence Bragg, who was awarded the 1915 physics prize together with his father, is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in the scientific prize categories. How old was he when he was awarded the prize? 25 years, 30 years or 35 years?
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The right answer is 25 years. Read more about Lawrence Bragg
Monthly May 2024
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Multiple recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize
The peace prize has been awarded to an organisation 30 times since 1901, but no recipient has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as many times as the International Committee of the Red Cross. They first received the prize in 1917 during World War I, then in 1944 during World War II and finally in 1963. Only one other organisation has been awarded the peace prize more than once. Do you know which one? Doctors Without Borders, UNHCR, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or United Nations Peacekeeping Forces?
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The right answer is UNHCR, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. UNHCR has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize twice, in 1954 and 1981, for its work in providing help and protection to refugees all over the world. See the list of all Nobel Peace Prize awarded organisations
Monthly April 2024
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It takes time to become a Nobel Prize laureate
Since 1901, 965 people have been awarded the Nobel Prize or prize in economic sciences. Can you guess their average age? 50 years, 60 years or 70 years?
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The right answer is 60 years. See the list of all Nobel Prize laureates sorted by age.
Monthly March 2024
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The first woman
Eleven laureates – seven men and four women – were awarded a Nobel Prize in 2023. Do you know who was the very first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize? Bertha von Suttner, Marie Skłodowska Curie or Gerty Cori?
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The right answer is Marie Skłodowska Curie. She was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1911 she became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Today she is still the only person that has been awarded two Nobel Prizes in two scientific categories. In 1905, Bertha von Suttner was the first woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1947 Gerty Cori was the first woman awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Monthly February 2024
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X-rays – an unexpected phenomena
The 1924 physics laureate Manne Siegbahn was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy. Many Nobel Prize laureates have been awarded prizes for work related to X-ray technology. Do you know who discovered X-rays? Henri Becquerel, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin or Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen?
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The right answer is Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
Read more about Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, the first Nobel Prize laureate in Physics.
Monthly January 2024
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Experiments with light capture the shortest of moments
The 2023 Nobel Prize laureates in physics have made it possible to explore the details of what happens inside of atoms and molecules with the help of extremely short pulses of light. These pulses last only on the order of an attosecond. How long is an attosecond? A thousandth of a thousandth of a second, a millionth of a millionth of a second or a billionth of a billionth of a second?
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The right answer is a billionth of a billionth of a second.
Read more about the 2023 physics prize here