Roderick MacKinnon was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003 for his research about ion channels. He celebrates his 60th birthday on 19 February. Here, he explains his thoughts about being a scientist.
10 persons were awarded 2015, two women, eight men; and one organization. There are now two new Nobel Laureates in Physics, three in Chemistry, three in Physiology or Medicine, one in Literature, one in Peace and one Laureate in Economic Sciences.
See all 2015 Nobel Laureates and why they were awarded
Between 1901 and 2015, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 573 times to 900 people and organizations.
See the list of all Nobel Prize awarded women.
The youngest Nobel Laureate ever is 17-year old Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai.
List of all Nobel Laureates by age
Jean-Paul Sartre and Le Duc Tho both declined the Nobel Prize, Sartre in 1964 and Le Duc Tho in 1973.
More about the Literature Prize to Jean-Paul Sartre
No person can nominate herself/himself for a Nobel Prize. But who may submit a candidate?
More about the nomination process for a Nobel Laureate
Olav Njølstad, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, answers questions about the nomination of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates.
Questions & Answers
Four Swedish institutions are responsible for awarding the prizes Alfred Nobel designated in his last will.
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Mahatma Gandhi, the strongest symbol of non-violence in the 20th century, was nominated for the Peace Prize a few days before he was killed on 30 January 1948.
Read about the 'missing Laureate'
This documentary recognises four of the 2012 Nobel Laureates whose discoveries has have led to huge leaps forward in the understanding of medical research.
Watch Mother Teresa delivering her acceptance speech after being awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
"I swore never to be silent". Listen to Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel's speech at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony.
In this interview, John Nash, 1994 Laureate in Economic Sciences, talks about the impact the Prize had on his life, his talent for mathematics as a child, and shares his thoughts about the movie on his life, A Beautiful Mind.
Although famed for his theories of relativity, it was his law about light that gave Albert Einstein his Nobel Prize.
More about Einstein's Nobel Prize in Physics
Marie Curie discovered the elements radium and polonium. She is the only woman to have been awarded two prizes, one in Physics and one in Chemistry.
More facts about Marie Curie
Under the most dangerous circumstances, Malala Yousafzai has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education. She was awarded the 2014 Peace Prize.
Watch or read her Nobel Lecture
Fairly unknown in Europe at the time, Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore attracted western readers with his aura of mysticism.
Tagore and his India
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The planning of the new Nobel Center in Stockholm, Sweden continues with the aim of creating a public meeting place. Through its broad public activities, the Nobel Center will invite people into the Nobel Prize's unique world of natural sciences, humanities and peace efforts and become a meeting place that inspires curiosity and creativity.
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On November 27, 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his third and last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. When it was opened and read after his death, the will caused a lot of controversy both in Sweden and internationally, as Nobel had left much of his wealth for the establishment of a prize.
Learn more about Alfred Nobel
Alfred G. Gilman, 1994 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, died on 23 December, 74 years old. He was awarded for the discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells.
Biography
Douglass C. North, awarded the 1993 Prize in Economic Sciences, passed away on 23 November. He shed new light on the economic development in Europe and the United States before and in connection with the industrial revolution, and emphasized the role of property rights and institutions.
Biography of Douglass C. North
Richard F. Heck, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis", passed away on 9 October, 84 years old.
Biography of Richard F. Heck
Yoichiro Nambu, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, passed away on 5 July, 94 years old.
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