Articles by: Karin Svanholm
Nobel Prize lessons – Narges Mohammadi
The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Narges Mohammadi “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight for human rights and freedom for all.” She has paid a high price for her courageous struggle. She has been arrested many times and sentenced to a total of 31 years in…
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Nobel Prize lessons – Jon Fosse
Norwegian author Jon Fosse writes in several different genres. Since his debut in 1983, he has published a large number of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays and children’s books. Fosse is one of the most widely performed playwrights of our era, but his novels have also attracted a great deal of international attention. In his…
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Nobel Prize lessons – Chemistry prize 2023
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Yekimov are awarded the 2023 chemistry prize for the discovery and development of nanotechnology’s smallest components – quantum dots. Quantum dots are nanoparticles that are so small that their size determines their properties, including the colour of light they emit. These luminous attributes are now utilised in making television…
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Nobel Prize lessons – Electrons in pulses of light
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded for discoveries that gave humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside of atoms and molecules. Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L´Huillier have conducted experiments in which they demonstrate a way of producing pulses of light that last for such a short period of…
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Nobel Prize lessons – Discoveries that laid the foundation for mRNA vaccines
The 2023 medicine prize honours discoveries that were decisive in the development of effective mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 during the pandemic that struck the world in early 2020. The two laureates’ ground-breaking research has fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with the immune system. It contributed to the extraordinarily rapid development of new…
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Scientific thinking for all: A toolkit
Teach your students not to fool themselves In a world flooded with information—and disinformation—we constantly make choices about what to believe. Our ingrained biases make it easy to fool ourselves. Scientists have spent centuries perfecting techniques to minimize bias and help them avoid falling into cognitive traps. For too long, these thinking tools have been…
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About Scientific thinking for all: A toolkit
Scientific thinking for all: a toolkit has been developed under the leadership of Saul Perlmutter, 2011 Nobel Prize laureate in physics. He conceived the idea for the course, along with colleagues in the social sciences and philosophy, for undergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley. The high school initiative is in cooperation with Nobel Prize…
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Scientific thinking for all: A toolkit
Get involved to help develop the materials A group of pioneer teachers tested the first unit at the beginning of 2023. Now the Lawrence Hall of Science team is recruiting more teachers to participate in field tests. Take advantage of this great opportunity and sign-up for LHS’s newsletter to receive information about digital workshops, field…
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Nobel Prize lessons – All 2022 Nobel Prizes
The 2022 Nobel Prizes are about quantum mechanics, click chemistry, human evolution, Annie Ernaux’s writing, fight for human rights and the role of banks in financial crises. This is a ready to use Nobel Prize lesson on all the 2022 Nobel Prizes. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes and includes a slideshow with…
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Nobel Prize lessons – Ales Bialiatski, Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. The laureates have been selected for their work to promote human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the neighbouring countries of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. They have…
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