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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…

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The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five, appointed by the Storting (the Norwegian parliament). The Norwegian Nobel Committee 2024 Members Jørgen Watne Frydnes (Chair) Asle Toje (Vice Chair) Anne Enger Kristin Clemet Gry Larsen Olav Njølstad (Secretary)Professor According to the rules laid down by the Storting, election to the committee is…

The Nobel Committee for Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for the selection of candidates for the Physics Prize from the names submitted for consideration by qualified nominators, who have been invited through formal letters. Nobel Committee for Physics 2021 Members David Haviland Professor of Nanostructure Physics Mats Larsson Professor of…

On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes, the Nobel Prizes. As described in Nobel’s will one part was dedicated to “the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal…

Read an excerpt from a book written by a Nobel Prize laureate in literature. Or choose a poem from an array of poetry excerpts. Pick a title! Prose Excerpts from Human Acts by Han Kang, Nobel Prize laureate in literature 2024 Excerpt from The Other Name. Septology I-II by Jon Fosse, Nobel Prize laureate in…

The Nobel Prize laureates are required “to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded according to the Nobel Foundation statutes. The lecture should be given before, or no later than six months after, the Nobel Prize award ceremony, which takes place in Stockholm or, in…