Annie Ernaux was born in 1940, made her debut in 1970 and has had a long and productive career as an author ever since. Her books, which number more than twenty in all, are often based on her own childhood, mixing fragments of memories with the collective memories that characterise the time in which she…

Quantum mechanics, which was developed about a hundred years ago, brought about a revolution in how we view the underlying forces that make up our world. One of quantum mechanics’ most remarkable consequences is “entanglement” – that particles can be linked together in spite of being separated by some distance and even though no signals…

Humanity has always been intrigued by its own origins. Where do we come from, and how are we related to the forms of humans who came before us? What makes us Homo sapiens different from other types of humans? Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo accomplished something no one thought possible: sequencing the genome of…

Interview with Abdulrazak Gurnah, February 2022 Nobelprize.org spoke to our 2021 literature laureate on 25 February 2022. He told us about his early days as a reader, the importance of stories and how he sees his work as the same as any other type of job. For a written version of this interview please see…

Want to watch and listen to some of today’s greatest minds conversing together, hosted by a top BBC presenter? Nobel Minds, the round-table discussion programme with the current year’s Nobel Prize laureates provides a unique opportunity to do just that. Since the 1960s, during the Nobel Week, the Nobel Prize laureates have gathered for a…

DISCOVERthe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 The prize was awarded jointly to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for something that has laid the foundation of wireless electronics and have a huge everyday impact for us. What is it? Try the puzzle! Jigsaw Puzzle It is the lithium-ion battery! The illustration shows…

https://youtu.be/NsWVb2AUl5Y Maria Ressa delivered her Nobel Peace Prize lecture on 10 December 2021 at the Oslo City Hall in Norway. English Copyright © The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 2021.General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language. Publication in periodicals or books, or in digital or electronic forms, otherwise than in summary, requires…

Teacher’s guide A Swedish version of the lesson is available at This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize lesson – a ready to use lesson on all the Nobel Prizes 2021. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes. The 2021 Nobel Prizes rewarded work that ranged from models for the climate, a…

Interview, September 2022 Interview with peace laureate Maria Ressa, September 2022 in Oslo, Norway. Maria Ressa answers the following questions (the links below lead to clips on YouTube): Why did you decide to become a journalist? Why is press freedom so important? What is the difference between misinformation and disinformation? How can we combat disinformation?…

Interview, June 2022 “Amazing doesn’t even begin to cover it” If you had the chance to meet a Nobel Prize laureate, what would you ask? High school student Lucas Madrigrano Azeredo met 2021 chemistry laureate David MacMillan 14 June 2022 to talk about life, football and career choices. MacMillan also shared his best advice for…