Articles by: Karin Svanholm
Nobel Prize lessons – All Nobel Prizes 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prizes are about everything from the inventions behind artificial intelligence (AI), the three-dimensional structure of proteins, and microRNA to Han Kang’s writing, the fight against nuclear weapons, and research that explains why some countries are rich and others poor. This is a ready to use Nobel Prize lesson on all the 2024…
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Nobel Prize lessons – Economic sciences prize 2024
The economic sciences prize 2024 is about why certain countries are rich and others are poor. By studying the various political and economic systems introduced by Europeans into their colonies from the sixteenth century on, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson have been able to demonstrate a link between societal institutions and prosperity. They…
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Nobel Prize lessons – The fight against nuclear weapons
The peace prize 2024 is about the struggle against nuclear weapons. The prize is awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organisation comprised of survivors of the atomic bomb blasts over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By bearing witness to their experiences, conducting educational campaigns and issuing warnings against nuclear weapons, these survivors have contributed to a greater…
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Nobel Prize lessons – Han Kang
South Korean author Han Kang began her career with the publication of some poems in a magazine, but it was as a novelist she made her breakthrough. In her books, Kang confronts historical traumas and social norms in capturing the fragility of human life. She often uses poetic language in her prose. With her lyrical…
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Nobel Prize lessons – The secrets of proteins
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools. David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. These discoveries hold enormous potential. This is…
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Nobel Prize lessons – Inventions behind AI
The 2024 physics laureates used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning. John Hopfield created a structure that can store and recreate information. Geoffrey Hinton invented a method that can autonomously find properties in data. This is a ready to use Nobel Prize lesson on the…
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Nobel Prize lessons – MicroRNA and its function
The 2024 medicine prize is about a fundamental principle for the way gene activity is regulated. Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered microRNA, which are very small bits of RNA molecules that play a decisive role in fine-tuning the activity of genes. Gene regulation with microRNA controls how much of a certain protein is synthesized…
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Crash course – 2023 Nobel Prizes
How much do you know about the discoveries awarded the 2023 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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The 2023 Nobel Prizes are about everything from electrons in pulses of light, quantum dots and discoveries that lay the groundwork for mRNA vaccines to Jon Fosse’s writing, Narges Mohammadi’s fight against the oppression of women in Iran and research on women in the labour market. This is a ready to use Nobel Prize lesson…
moreNobel Prize lessons – Women in the labour market
The 2023 prize in economic sciences is about women’s historical and contemporary roles in the labour market. Laureate Claudia Goldin has dug through the archives and utilised more than two hundred years of data from the United States to explain how and why differences in wages and level of employment between men and women have…
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