Links to other sites Nobel Prize lessons Video The story of how Nobel Prize awarded scientists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman became mRNA vaccine pioneers, helped develop the first COVID vaccines, and are changing the future of medicine.A video from Penn Medicine.

Interview, December 2023 Interview with the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine Katalin Karikó on 6 December 2023 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Katalin Karikó answers the following questions (the links below lead to clip on YouTube): – What brought you to science? – What do you enjoy most about science?…

Announcement of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly, on 2 October 2023. Interview about the awarded work “This can also help us combat non-infectious diseases, like cancer” Immediately after the announcement, Professor Qiang Pan Hammarström, member of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, was…

The 2023 prize in economic sciences is about women’s historical and contemporary roles in the labour market. Laureate Claudia Goldin has dug through the archives and utilised more than two hundred years of data from the United States to explain how and why differences in wages and level of employment between men and women have…

The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Narges Mohammadi “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight for human rights and freedom for all.” She has paid a high price for her courageous struggle. She has been arrested many times and sentenced to a total of 31 years in…

Norwegian author Jon Fosse writes in several different genres. Since his debut in 1983, he has published a large number of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays and children’s books. Fosse is one of the most widely performed playwrights of our era, but his novels have also attracted a great deal of international attention. In his…

Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Yekimov are awarded the 2023 chemistry prize for the discovery and development of nanotechnology’s smallest components – quantum dots. Quantum dots are nanoparticles that are so small that their size determines their properties, including the colour of light they emit. These luminous attributes are now utilised in making television…

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for discoveries that gave humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside of atoms and molecules. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L´Huillier have conducted experiments in which they demonstrate a way of producing pulses of light that last for such a short period of…

The 2023 medicine prize honours discoveries that were decisive in the development of effective mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 during the pandemic that struck the world in early 2020. The two laureates’ ground-breaking research has fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with the immune system. It contributed to the extraordinarily rapid development of new…

Scientific thinking for all: a toolkit has been developed under the leadership of Saul Perlmutter, 2011 Nobel Prize laureate in physics. He conceived the idea for the course, along with colleagues in the social sciences and philosophy, for undergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley. The high school initiative is in cooperation with Nobel Prize…