Articles by: Karin Svanholm
The 2025 literature prize – László Krasznahorkai
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. One of the most important writers in Hungary Portrait of László Krasznahorkai. László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in the town of Gyula in southeastern Hungary.…
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The 2025 economic sciences prize – From stagnation to steady growth
In the last 200 years, we have for the first time in world history, seen sustained economic growth. The 2025 economic sciences prize goes to three researchers who explain how this development was possible and what is needed for continued growth. What is growth? Growth is when the value of all goods and services produced…
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Nobel Prize lessons – MOFs – molecular structures
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 recognises the development of materials with completely new features. Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi have created porous metal-organic frameworks (abbreviated as MOFs). These have large cavities that other molecules can move in and out of. MOFs can be used to, for example, capture carbon dioxide and harvest…
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Nobel Prize lessons – Quantum properties on a human scale
The 2025 physics laureates have carried out experiments showing that quantum mechanical effects that occur in the world of atoms and electrons may also manifest themselves on the scale of reality that we typically experience. John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis discovered that the phenomena of quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation may occur…
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Nobel Prize lessons – The immune system’s security guards
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 is about our immune system. The immune system protects us from viruses, bacteria and other kinds of microorganisms. The Nobel laureates Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Simon Sakaguchi have discovered previously unknown immune cells, so-called regulatory T cells, that act as the immune system’s security guards and…
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Nobel Prize lessons – László Krasznahorkai
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to László Krasznahorkai “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Krasznahorkai is considered one of the most important authors in Hungary. He has written novels, short stories, essays and plays. Many of his books have also…
moreNobel Prize lessons – Maria Corina Machado
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”. Maria Corina Machado is a unifying force for the political opposition against the authoritarian rule in Venezuela.…
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Nobel Prize lessons – From stagnation to steady growth
In the last 200 years, we have, for the first time in world history, seen sustained economic growth. The 2025 economic sciences laureates, Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, have in different ways explained how this trend has been possible and what it needs to continue. The laureates have shown that technological innovation, useful…
moreNobel Prize lessons – All Nobel Prizes 2025
In October, an easy-to-use Nobel Prize lesson about all the 2025 Nobel Prizes will be published for your use. The lesson will include a slideshow with a speaker’s manuscript and a quiz.
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Crash course – 2024 Nobel Prizes
How much do you know about the discoveries awarded the 2024 Nobel Prizes? Take our one-minute crash course on each of the prizes and find out how each have changed our world.
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