Interview with 2013 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Arieh Warshel on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you please explain your Nobel Prize awarded work for 13-14 year olds?  Arieh Warshel: To explain to 13-14 year olds … I essentially try to give my lecture to my granddaughter who is maybe…

Interview with Michael Levitt on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your Nobel Prize awarded work for young students? Michael Levitt: Firstly we have been helped very much by the Nobel Committee because they really helped to define a certain part of work and I would say that…

Interview with Peter Higgs on 6 December 2013 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you describe your Nobel Prize awarded work for young students? Peter Higgs: Imagine a snowfield, and that is an analogous to this background field throughout all the universe, this affects the way that people crossing it in different ways…

Interview with François Englert on 6 December 2013, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you describe your Nobel Prize awarded work for young students? François Englert: First I will tell them or remind them if they know a little bit that all the matter that we have around us is composed of atoms.…

English 8 October 2013 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2013 to François Englert Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium and Peter W. HiggsUniversity of Edinburgh, UK “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was…

In Sight of the Lake Excerpt from Dear Life: Stories A woman goes to her doctor to have a prescription renewed. But the doctor is not there. It’s her day off. In fact the woman has got the day wrong, she has mixed up Monday with Tuesday. This is the very thing she wanted to…

(pdf, 1.38 MB) Swedish (pdf, 202 kB) Nobelsamtal med Alice Munro Samtalspartner Stefan Åsberg, SVT Översättning Rose-Marie Nielsen [Den engelska avskriften av samtalet har varit utgångspunkt för översättningen till svenska. Arbetet har skett under stor tidsnöd, varför vissa smärre avvikelser i texten kan förekomma.] Jag blev tidigt intresserad av läsning, eftersom man läst en saga…

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English The Permanent Secretary Press release 10 October 2013 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 Alice Munro The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2013 is awarded to the Canadian author Alice Munro “master of the contemporary short story”.

Calligrapher: Susan Duvnäs Book binder: Ingemar Dackéus Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom