Martti Ahtisaari was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts. Martti Ahtisaari Full name: Martti AhtisaariBorn: 23 June 1937, Viipuri (now Vyborg), FinlandDied: 16 October 2023, Helsinki, FinlandDate awarded: 10 October 2008 All conflicts can be solved For more than three…

  From left: Luc Montagnier, Harald zur Hausen and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi. © Nobel Media AB. Photo: Merci Olsson Interview with the 2008 Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, 6 December 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Luc Montagnier, Harald zur Hausen, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi,…

Luckily for us, the Universe is not symmetrical, at least at the subatomic level. If it was, the newly formed matter at the Universe’s birth would have been annihilated by an equal and opposite amount of antimatter, and nothingness would have resulted. Instead, a small imbalance, or asymmetry, in the amount of matter and antimatter…

In a remarkably succinct, ten-page article published in 1979, Paul Krugman proposed a new trade model that changed the way economists view the international exchange of goods. At the heart of the model lay two concepts that reflected the general twentieth century trend towards having more: the increased production of goods, leading to economies of…

Martti Ahtisaari, former diplomat and politician, is an international trouble-shooter. Over the past two decades he has worked under a variety of mandates to attempt to bring a peaceful end to conflicts in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Few people have gained such a broad understanding of the intricacies of managing conflict resolution.…

French Extrait d’Onitsha Le Surabaya, un navire de trois cents tonneaux, déjà vieux, de la Holland Africa Line, venait de quitter les eaux sales de l’estuaire de la Gironde et faisait route vers la côte ouest de l’Afrique, et Fintan regardait sa mère comme si c’était pour la première fois. Peut-être qu’il n’avait jamais senti…

Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Mina damer och herrar Jag vill tacka för äran att vara här, tacka Svenska Akademien, tacka svenska folket och jag vill också tacka skogen. It’s a great pleasure, it’s a great honour to be with you tonight, and I acknowledge this honour which is done to me…

English The Permanent Secretary Press release 9 October 2008 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2008 is awarded to the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization”.

English 7 December, 2008 In the forest of paradoxes Why do we write? I imagine that each of us has his or her own response to this simple question. One has predispositions, a milieu, circumstances. Shortcomings, too. If we are writing, it means that we are not acting. That…

German 7. Dezember 2008 Im Wald der Paradoxe Warum schreibt man? Ich nehme an, dass jeder eine Antwort auf diese einfache Frage hat. Die Veranlagung, das Milieu, die Umstände spielen dabei eine Rolle. Auch die Dinge zu denen man nicht fähig ist. Wenn man schreibt, bedeutet das, dass man nicht handelt. Dass man eine gewisse…