Diabetes used to be a death sentence, but that changed in 1922 when a teenager’s miraculous recovery brought hope to millions.
Tracked insulin by injecting radioactive iodine into patients’ blood.
In this interview, 2018 literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk reflects on what health means to her, how literature and mental health are connected, and what she learned from working as a psychologist.
Olga Tokarczuk takes part in the event the ‘Future of Health’ on 9 December. Read more about the event here
James Robinson was awakened by his family.
David Baker on the potential of building brand new proteins.
Gary Ruvkun on the pleasure of finding things out.
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.
Perspectives on life
The right way to be wrong
Ever wondered how Nobel Prize laureates think about the world? 2011 physics laureate Saul Perlmutter advocates for a world where we are more careful with what we say is truth.
Listen to the interview with Moungi Bawendi.
Carolyn Bertozzi on the purpose of scientists.
David MacMillan has a strong belief.
Katalin Karikó on how to stick with your beliefs.
Svante Pääbo on doing research.
Ardem Patapoutian on his love for science.
In her oeuvre, Han Kang confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life. She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose.
“for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”.
Herta Müller reads from her book ‘Der Mensch ist ein großer Fasan auf der Welt’.
Listen to Imre Kertész’s speech at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2002.
Han Kang talks about how writers as a collective have influenced her: “All their efforts and strengths have been my inspiration.”
Curious to read 2024 literature laureate Han Kang? Steve Sem-Sandberg from the Swedish Academy gives his book tips.
A symbol for the fight to abolish nuclear weapons
The Nobel Peace Prize 2024 is awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, an organisation of survivors from the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The origami crane has become symbolic to their fight to abolish nuclear weapons.
Watch this tutorial to learn how to fold your own paper crane.
This year’s laureates in the economic sciences – Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson – have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity. Societies with a poor rule of law and institutions that exploit the population do not generate growth or change for the better. The laureates’ research helps us understand why.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s discoveries in biochemistry and medicine include the determination of the structure of penicillin.
Photo: Science Museum London/Science and Society Picture Library [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
John Nash was awarded the prize in economic sciences for his work in game theory, and more specifically for his “Nash equilibrium theory”.
Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
Learn about the discovery of “grid cells” that generate a coordinate system and allow for precise positioning and pathfinding.
Geir Mogen/Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
Featuring medicine laureate Katalin Karikó
Featuring medicine laureate Sir Paul Nurse
Featuring peace laureate Maria Ressa
Featuring Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of Center for Civil Liberties
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) has become the strongest symbol of non-violence in the 20th century. It is widely held – in retrospect – that the Indian national leader should have been selected for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize. Why?
Mahatma Gandhi laughing.
Photo: Public domain.
A team of female Yazidi deminers in Iraq attempting to clear their land of mines left behind by ISIS. A team of scientists on an extraordinary mission in Mozambique to help better our understanding of climate change. A man building prosthetic legs to help victims of war walk again in South Sudan … All are inspired by Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
