Articles by: Karin Svanholm
Nobel Prize lessons – The role of banks in financial crises
Most people have some sort of contact with a bank several times a week. Maybe they pay for things with a credit card or a mobile payment app, or they have money saved in an account at the bank. The same is true for businesses. In times of economic crisis, there is a risk that…
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Nobel Prize lessons – It just says click!
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022 is about making difficult processes easier. Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal have laid the foundation for a function form of chemistry – click chemistry – that allows researchers to construct molecules in an efficient and systematic way. Carolyn Bertozzi has further refined click chemistry and used it in living…
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Nobel Prize lessons – Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux was born in 1940, made her debut in 1970 and has had a long and productive career as an author ever since. Her books, which number more than twenty in all, are often based on her own childhood, mixing fragments of memories with the collective memories that characterise the time in which she…
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Nobel Prize lessons – Research on quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics, which was developed about a hundred years ago, brought about a revolution in how we view the underlying forces that make up our world. One of quantum mechanics’ most remarkable consequences is “entanglement” – that particles can be linked together in spite of being separated by some distance and even though no signals…
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Nobel Prize lessons – Research on human evolution
Humanity has always been intrigued by its own origins. Where do we come from, and how are we related to the forms of humans who came before us? What makes us Homo sapiens different from other types of humans? Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo accomplished something no one thought possible: sequencing the genome of…
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Nobel Prize lesson “Utopias and Dystopias”
Teacher’s guide This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize lesson “Utopias and Dystopias”.The purpose of this lesson is to give students an introduction as well as an in-depth study of the literary genres utopia and dystopia and their history. This Nobel Prize lesson has been created within the framework for the citizen science…
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Nobel Prize lessons – All Nobel Prizes 2021
Teacher’s guide A Swedish version of the lesson is available at This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize lesson – a ready to use lesson on all the Nobel Prizes 2021. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes. The 2021 Nobel Prizes rewarded work that ranged from models for the climate, a…
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Teacher’s Guide This is a teacher’s guide for a Nobel Prize lesson – a complete lesson on the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which is awarded for the discovery of one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. The lesson is planned to take about 45 minutes. (PDF 60K)A Swedish version of the…
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Nobel Prize lessons 2021
Ready to use lessons on the 2021 Nobel Prizes, published here the day after each announcement. The lessons are so easy to use, that a teacher can look through the manual, watch the slides, print the texts for students and then start the class.
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Nobel Prize lessons – Prize in economic sciences 2021
Teacher’s guide A Swedish version of the lesson is available at This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize lesson – a ready to use lesson on the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes. A new tool in the chemist’s…
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