Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman, for her non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Full name: Ellen Johnson SirleafBorn: 29 October 1938, Monrovia, LiberiaDate awarded: 7 October 2011 Pioneering president Ellen Johnson…

Interview with the 2011 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Dan Shechtman, 6 December 2011. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editorial Director of Nobel Media. Daniel Shechtman, welcome to Stockholm. Dan Shechtman: Thank you. You are here to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for your discovery of quasicrystals. It seems to me that there is a…

Nobel Prize Conversations  “I see myself as the one who never gives up” In this podcast episode with Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee, conducted in December 2021, she shares her heartbreaking life story of growing up during the Liberian civil war. The consequences from the war required her to grow up quickly or as…

Nobel Prize Conversations How important is the money in your pocket? Try buying a sandwich with an IOU and a promise to come back and pay, and you’ll soon understand. Christopher Sims’ research explores topics from the meaning of money to his prize-awarded work on cause and effect in the macroeconomy. In this conversation, conducted…

Swedish Allegro Jag spelar Haydn efter en svart dag och känner en enkel värme i händerna. Tangenterna vill. Milda hammare slår. Klangen är grön, livlig och stilla. Klangen säger att friheten finns och att någon inte ger kejsaren skatt. Jag kör ner händerna i mina haydnfickor och härmar en som ser lugnt på världen. Jag…

Interview with the 2011 Nobel Laureates in Physics Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess on 6 December 2011. Adam Riess, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, welcome to Stockholm. I gather that this year Stockholm is making itself the city of lights for Christmas which seems very appropriate as a way to welcome three…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 “Some say the world will end in fire;Some say in ice…” *What is the fate of the Universe? Probably it will end in ice if we are to believe this year’s Nobel Laureates. They have carefully studied several dozen exploding stars, called supernovae, in faraway galaxies and have concluded…

English 4 October 2011 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2011 with one half to Saul Perlmutter The Supernova Cosmology Project Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt The High-z Supernova Search Team Australian National University, Weston Creek,…

English At the Nobel Lecture in Literature on 7 December 2011, a programme featuring texts by Tomas Tranströmer was introduced by Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. Tomas and Monica Tranströmer, esteemed Academicians, Ladies and Gentlemen: I bid you a warm welcome to the Swedish Academy and this presentation marking the year’s Nobel…

Swedish Vid Nobelföreläsningen i litteratur den 7 december 2011 introducerade Peter Englund, Svenska Akademiens ständige sekreterare, ett program med texter av Tomas Tranströmer. Tomas och Monica Tranströmer, kära Akademiledamöter, mina damer och herrar. Hjärtligt välkomna till Svenska Akademien och detta arrangemang med anledning av årets Nobelpris i litteratur! God poesi är ett mäktigt ting. Det…