Nobel Prize

Interview with the 2008 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien, 6 December 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org. Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien, welcome to Stockholm and congratulations on the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Martin Chalfie: Thank you. As I’m sure you’ve…

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi dedicated her career as a scientist and as an activist to halting the spread of AIDS. Her discovery of HIV led to blood tests that could detect the infection, and ultimately to anti retroviral medications that have turned AIDS from a death sentence to a manageable chronic disease. For the people around the world who don’t have access to AIDS drugs, Barré-Sinoussi has been a tireless advocate.

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.…

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”.

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…