Nobel Prize

Neuroscientist May-Britt Moser persisted in a decades-long quest to understand how the brain worked at a cellular level. She persevered through a series of challenges – from a reluctant PhD advisor to the birth of two daughters – with a stubborn sense of purpose. Together with her then-husband, Edvard, she learned how the brain perceives where the body is positioned and discovered the cellular basis of cognitive function.

Kailash Satyarthi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Malala Yousafzai, for his struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. Kailash Satyarthi Full name: Kailash SatyarthiBorn: 11 January 1954, Vidisha, IndiaDate awarded: 10 October 2014 The children’s rights activist For decades India’s Kailash…

Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with Kailash Satyarthi, for her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. Malala Yousafzai Full name: Malala YousafzaiBorn: 12 July 1997, Mingora, PakistanDate awarded: 10 October 2014 “Pens are mightier than weapons” Malala Yousafzai comes from…

Interview with Jean Tirole on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you please explain your Nobel Prize awarded work in simple terms? Jean Tirole: My work, which has been awarded the prize, is on the regulation of industries. The regulations of industries include what we call anti-trust which mean that…

Interview with May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser, 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you please explain your Nobel Prize awarded work for 13-14 year olds? Edvard Moser: We have discovered parts of an internal map that we have in our brain, a map that tells the rest of the brain…

Interview with 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine John O’Keefe, 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you explain your awarded work in easy-to-understand terms. One of the fundamental things that humans and animals do, is find their way around the world. So, to do that they need to know…

Interview with William E. Moerner on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Can you explain your work in easy-to-understand terms. The work that I did to receive the Nobel Prize, involved detecting single molecules, individual molecules. What you want to think about, is that a single molecule is incredibly tiny, just…

Interview with Hiroshi Amano on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. What were you doing when you heard you had been awarded the Nobel Prize? When there were the announcements, I was on a plane from Japan to Frankfurt, that transit. When I took out from the plane, I saw many…

Interview with Stefan W. Hell on 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you deescribe your Nobel Prize-awarded work in simple terms? Stefan Hell: I discovered that a light microscope can see sharper pictures that we believed in the 20th century, more than 100 years. This is important because light microscopy…

Interview with Eric Betzig, 6 December 2014, during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. Could you deescribe your Nobel Prize-awarded work in simple terms? Eric Betzig: My work and the work of my colleagues for this prize is about trying to see small things, particularly living things in cells. So, your body is composed of…