Nobel Prize

Interview with the 2020 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, Emmanuelle Charpentier, recorded in Stockholm on 12 December 2022.  Where does your passion for science come from?  Emmanuelle Charpentier: I think it’s a combination of a lot of aspects in my childhood and education, that led me to the science world. Initially, the main interest I…

Interview with the 2020 Nobel Prize laureate in physics Andrea Ghez on 12 December 2022 during the Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How has life changed since you became a laureate?  Andrea Ghez: The last two years have been very much a rollercoaster. It’s a really interesting time to win the Nobel Prize during 2020…

The World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. Full name: World Food Programme (WFP)Native name:…

Born in London, England in 1951 to Leonard George and Elsie Cressy Houghton, he was raised in a working-class family along with elder brother Graham. Educated at an excellent government primary school (Lyndhurst Grove) until the age of 11, he then won a scholarship to Alleyn’s School in Dulwich, London, founded by Edward Alleyn, a…

Iwas born on August 25, 1952 in Sacramento, California to Roberta Helen Rice and Charles Moen Rice Jr. (Fig. 1). My mother originated in Colorado Springs, Colorado, my father from Worcester, Massachusetts. I was the third Charles Moen Rice; we were all only children. I never met my paternal grandparents who were long gone by…

The World Food Programme (established in 1961) is the world’s largest humanitarian organisation saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity, for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change. Read the history of World Food Programme at

Iwas born in Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt, Germany in 1952. My parents and I lived in an apartment right above the physics laboratories of the University, where my father was an instructor. I also started elementary school there. In 1960 my parents moved to southwestern Germany, to the idyllic Black Forest town of Freiburg, bordering…

I never had no Nobel dreams Iwas born in 1935, a pivotal year in American history, although it is possible that my birth had nothing to do with these historical events. In 1935, the US was emerging from the Great Depression and the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 instilled hope for a new deal.…

Iwas born on February 19, 1964 in Washington, D.C., the oldest of three sisters. My father Martin K. Doudna was a speechwriter for the Department of Defense at the time and my mother Dorothy taught in community college. My family, including my siblings Ellen and Sarah, moved to Ann Arbor where my father pursued a…

Roger Penrose was born on August 8th, 1931 in Colchester, Essex, England. His father Lionel Sharples Penrose FRS was a distinguished medically trained scientist, who worked primarily on human genetics, studying mainly the genetic origins of numerous mental conditions, particularly the issue of Downs Syndrome. He had earlier, in around 1920, studied psychoanalysis, travelling to…