Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. Liu Xiaobo Full name: Liu XiaoboBorn: 28 December 1955, Changchun, ChinaDied: 13 July 2017, Shenyang, ChinaDate awarded: 8 October 2010 For people’s rights Liu Xiaobo was a Chinese literature critic, author, university lecturer and human rights…

Nobel Prize Conversations In this digital conversation podcast we meet Christopher Pissarides, a humble London School of Economics professor who finished his PhD in two years and was awarded the 2010 prize in economic sciences. He and his co-laureates Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen were awarded for finding ways to incorporate real-world frictions into the…

Konstantin Novoselov (right) and Andre Geim (left) during their interview with Nobelprize.org. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2010 Photo: Niclas Enberg Interview with 2010 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, 6 December 2010. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editorial Director of Nobel Media. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, welcome to the Nobel…

Transcript from an interview with Mario Vargas Llosa during Nobel Week in Stockholm, December 2010. Interviewer is Camilla Lundberg, Head of the Music Department of Sveriges Television AB. Mr Vargas Llosa, welcome to Stockholm and to the Stockholm Concert Hall. You have been there before I understand. Mario Vargas Llosa: I have been there once,…

Transcript from an interview with 2010 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki on 6 December 2014. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editorial Director of Nobel Media. Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira Suzuki, welcome to Stockholm and Nobel week. Professors Negishi and Suzuki, you have just arrived from Japan where…

If you have ever tried to find a job, or to buy or rent a house, you will know that such undertakings are not without their ‘inefficiencies’, or, as economists like to term them, their frictions. The same goes for those trying to fill jobs, or sell homes: although the perfect employee or buyer might…

The first Chinese citizen to receive a Nobel Prize, Liu Xiaobo is a poet and literary critic who has come to prominence over the last two decades as one of the most visible leaders of China’s pro-democracy movement. Currently serving an 11 year prison term, he is the third Nobel Peace Laureate to be under…

The wave of creativity that has swept through Latin American writing since the 1960s has turned the region into an engine for change on a global scale and Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the major figures in this Latin American renaissance. He was born in Peru in 1936 and his life, like his writing,…

Nobel Poster from the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, web adapted by Nobelprize.org Contents The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2010 to Richard F. Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki, “for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis”. Mankind wants more powerful medicines, the electronics industry is…

Life on earth is built on carbon. Chains of carbon atoms, variously arranged, constitute the backbone of most of the molecules that form and regulate living systems. These molecules, large and small, of course contain several other elements too. But the greatest challenge to chemists, when they seek to replicate and even improve on nature’s…