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Eleven world renowned architects are now competing to produce the winning architectural design for the Nobel Center - the building that will become the new home for the Nobel Prize in Stockholm.
More about the competition and the participating architectsCraig Mello, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, one of the three Nobel Laureates interviewed, says "Thank you for what you are doing and it is such an important tribute that you pay to science and to the human spirit of discovery".
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PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE - Monday 7 October, 11:30 a.m. at the earliest
PHYSICS - Tuesday 8 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest
CHEMISTRY - Wednesday 9 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest
PEACE - Friday 11 October, 11:00 a.m.
ECONOMIC SCIENCES - Monday 14 October, 1:00 p.m. at the earliest
LITERATURE - The date will be set later
At the 2013 Nobel Prize Concert, Riccardo Muti will be conducting the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme comprising Verdi, Martucci and Respighi.
Discuss energy futures ahead of us on 9 December 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Kenneth G. Wilson, awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for his theory for critical phenomena in connection with phase transitions, died on 6 June.
Biography
Jerome Karle, awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for development of direct methods to determine crystal structures, died on 6 June.
Interview with Jerome Karle
1993 Laureate in Economic Sciences Robert W. Fogel, who clarified the role of the railways for the development of the economy in the United States, and the economic role of slavery, died on 11 June.
Interview with Robert F. Vogel
1986 Nobel Laureate in Physics Heinrich Rohrer, awarded for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope, died on 16 May.
Interview with Heinrich Rohrer
LITERATURE PRIZE 2009 Herta Müller had to leave Ceauşescu's Romania for West Germany in 1987. In this documentary, she talks about her life growing up as part of a German speaking minority in rural Romania and her years of persecution.
Watch the documentary about her life
Copyright: UNHCR. Photo: H. Caux.
Every year on 20 June, the United Nations highlights 'World Refugee Day' - a day dedicated to the world's more than 10 million refugee. The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, provides international protection for refugees by maintaining their right of asylum and seeking to prevent any forced return to the country from which they have fled.
Read about the history of the UNHCR, twice awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
PEACE PRIZE 1958 Belgian Dominican friar Georges Pire supported Belgian resistance during World War II. He helped refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity and later founded an organization to help refugee families.
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PEACE PRIZE 1989 Ever since 1959 the Tibetan Dalai Lama, together with some one hundred thousand of his countrymen, has lived in exile in India.
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PEACE PRIZE 1992 Guatemalan Rigoberta Menchú Tum had to flee her country and live in exile in Mexico for many years.
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PEACE PRIZE 1970 In 1974, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was deprived of his Soviet citizenship, put on a plane to West Germany and sent into an exile that was to last until the summer of 1994.
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PEACE PRIZE 1975 Russian Andrei Sakharov was in 1979 sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, a closed city that was inaccessible to foreign observers.
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