From poetic prose that confronts historical traumas to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. From predicting proteins’ complex structures to training artificial neural networks using physics. From microRNA to new insights into how institutions affect prosperity. The Nobel Prizes 2024 have awarded discoveries and achievements that have benefitted humankind in a myriad of ways.…

Interview with the 2022 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Anton Zeilinger on 6 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Where does your passion for science come from? Anton Zeilinger: My passion for science goes back very, very far. Even as a child, I wanted to know how things work, and I was…

1936 Nobel Prize Award ceremony, 10 December 1936. From left: Medicine laureates Otto Loewi and Sir Henry Dale, chemistry laureate Peter Debye, physics laureates Carl David Anderson and Victor F. Hess.

1936 Nobel Prize Award ceremony, 10 December 1936. From left: Medicine laureates Otto Loewi and Sir Henry Dale, chemistry laureate Peter Debye, physics laureates Carl David Anderson and Victor F. Hess.

Artist: Sofia Gisberg.

Geoffrey Hinton receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2024. Geoffrey Hinton delivering his speech of thanks at the Nobel Prize banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 2024. Geoffrey Hinton delivering his Nobel Prize lecture in physics on 8 December 2024 at…

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2024 “I’m still somewhat in shock” “You have to build up from the bottom.” In this interview shortly after the announcement, John J. Hopfield talks about how he found out about the prize when he was going through his e-mails. ”It didn’t sink in until I got to the fourth e-mail!” From…

John J. Hopfield receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2024. John J. Hopfield delivering his Nobel Prize lecture in physics on 8 December 2024 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. Like many laureates before him, John J. Hopfield signed a chair at the…

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2024 “How could I be sure it wasn’t a spoof call?” 2024 physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton received the phone call from Stockholm in the early hours in a hotel room in California, and multiple Swedish accents helped reassure him that his Nobel Prize in Physics was real. In this interview…

Announcement of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics by Professor Hans Ellegren, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 8 October 2024. Interview about the awarded work “They have both been true pioneers: finding new ways to tackle problems” Immediately after the announcement, Professor Anders Irbäck, Member of the Nobel Committee for…