Press programme Stockholm This is the press programme for Nobel Week in Stockholm. You will need to apply for accreditation for some of the activities during the week. Spaces for the Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet are very limited. More information and activities will be added.All times are in CET. 5 December 08:45 Press conference…

Nobel Banquet at the Golden Hall of the Stockholm City Hall on 10 December 1950.

DISCOVERthe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 The prize was awarded jointly to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for something that has laid the foundation of wireless electronics and have a huge everyday impact for us. What is it? Try the puzzle! Jigsaw Puzzle It is the lithium-ion battery! The illustration shows…

Announcement of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 6 October 2021. Interview about the awarded work “It’s a game changer. Like a new chess piece that is very, very powerful” Immediately following the announcement of the 2021 Nobel Prize in…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/1CSYHLTPVzg Announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 7 October 2020. https://www.youtube.com/embed/VO1WW6yVC8w “This has revolutionised the molecular life sciences.” Immediately after the announcement, Professor Claes Gustafsson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee, was interviewed by freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for discovering one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Researchers can use these to change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision. This technology has revolutionised the molecular life…

Swedish 7 oktober 2020 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i kemi 2020 till Emmanuelle Charpentier Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Tyskland Jennifer A. Doudna University of California, Berkeley, USA ”för utveckling av en metod för genomeditering”   Gensaxen: ett redskap för att förändra livets kod Emmanuelle Charpentier och Jennifer A. Doudna har…

What does music mean to you? Do you use it to help relieve stress, anxiety and fall asleep to? For many, the value of music is endless and scientists and Nobel Prize laureates are no exception. From seeing problems in a new way to fostering discipline, expressing creativity to working as a team, music has…

A reoccurring aim among the Nobel Prize laureates’ achievements is to help us live more sustainable lives – whether it’s growing enough food to ensure nobody goes hungry, or making our chemical processes cleaner and greener. Here are some of the ways Nobel Prize laureates have worked to make the world more sustainable. Frances Arnold…