27 January is an international memorial day for the victims of the Holocaust. Literature laureate Imre Kertèsz survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and spoke about it in his Nobel Prize banquet speech.
Remembering the Holocaust
Chemistry laureate Avram Hershko’s grandparents perished in the Holocaust, but he and his parents had better luck.
Literature laureate Nelly Sachs could escape from the concentration camp in 1940, thanks to her penfriend, Swedish author and Nobel Prize laureate Selma Lagerlöf, and Prince Eugen of Sweden.
In this interview, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel talks about his perspectives on the world after World War II and remembers his time in concentration camp.
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Dmitry Muratov delivers his Nobel Prize lecture.
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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
Read Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Prize lecture.
Martin Luther King Jr. held his acceptance speech in the auditorium of the University of Oslo in Norway on 10 December 1964.
The first nomination arrived to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in January 1963. Not until 2014, the nominators were revealed.
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Alfred Nobel – Established the Nobel Prizes
Chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel left 31 million SEK (today about 342 million dollars) to fund the Nobel Prizes.
When Alfred was five years old his father Immanuel, an inventor and builder, moved to St. Petersburg. Alfred joined him a few years later.
Based on Alfred’s work and patents a whole new industry developed. Within ten years, 16 explosives producing factories had been founded in 14 countries.
In his will of 27 November 1895, signed in Paris, Alfred Nobel specified that the bulk of his fortune should be used for prizes.
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Learn more about the way to find out about the human blood groups, blood typing and the importance of safe blood transfusions. See if you can save the lives of the patients in the game!
With this animated game, teachers are able to illustrate classical conditioning in the classroom. The object of the game is to train Pavlov’s dog to respond to a signal that it will associate with being fed.
In 1904, Ivan Pavlov was awarded with Nobel Prize for his pioneering studies of how the digestive system works.
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The museum showcases the discoveries and creativity of the Nobel Prize laureates.
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The story of each peace laureate is told at the museum.
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In memoriam
Biography
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