Nobel Prize

by Olav Njølstad Research Director, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, 1999 – Since the end of the Cold War, many surprising facts and well-kept secrets about the policy-making in the former Soviet Union have been disclosed through the release of newly declassified documents. In more ways than one, this new openness has added to our knowledge…

by Bo Svensén* Organisation of work Once the of the Nobel Foundation had been ratified in June 1900, the Swedish Academy immediately set to work on the preparations required to enable the award of the first Nobel Prize in 1901. A Nobel Committee consisting of five members of the Academy was established in October 1900.…

by Judith Goodstein California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology is a small, independent university of research and teaching in science and engineering, with 900 Ph.D. level researchers, including almost 300 regular faculty, 900 undergraduates, and 1,000 graduate students. In spite of its small size, it has become one of the world’s leading…

Short biography Kostøl, Esther Marie 1936 – Trade union leader and politician Labour Esther Kostøl worked for the Norwegian Civil Servants’ Association (Norsk Tjenestemannslag) in 1977 and in the period 1978-1985, she worked for the Civil Servants’ Cartel (Statstjenestemannskartellet). She was Secretary of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions in 1985-1989, its Deputy Chairman in…

Credits for the production Nobel and Karolinska Institutet Production made by Nobelprize.org in cooperation with Jan Lindsten, professor emeritus Center for Molecular Medicine Karolinska Hospital SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden Martin Lundström, manuscript IT-Media Martin Lundström Sandbrovägen 13 183 30 Täby Peo Drangert, sound Sound Propulsion Kungsholmsstrand 101 112 33 Stockholm Alan Pryke, voice over Cultura…

  Year  Laureate  Field  Prize Citation 1969 Ragnar Frisch Oslo University Jan Tinbergen The Netherland School of Economics Econometrics For having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes 1970 Paul A. Samuelson Massachusetts Institute of Technology Partial and General Equilibrium Theory For the scientific work through which he has developed static…

Short biography Anderson, Gidske 1921 – 1992 Writer and journalist Labour Gidske Anderson worked in Paris as correspondent for NRK (the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) and Arbeiderbladet (the organ of the Labour Party) 1954-1964. In 1964-1967 she was a free-lance journalist and writer in the USA. From 1967 until 1972 Anderson was editor of the foreign…

Short biography Konow, Wollert 1845 – 1924 Teacher, farmer and politician Liberal As a young man, Wollert Konow studied law but he never got a degree. From 1868 he ran a school in the countryside in western Norway. In 1878 he took over his father’s farm outside Bergen, Norway’s second largest city. Soon after, he…

Short biography Germeten, Else 1918 – 1992 Women’s group organizer and film censor Labour As a young woman, Else Germeten studied English language and literature (1941). Later she went to the USA where she passed an exam in Psychology in 1953. She was Chairman of Norges Husmorforbund (Norwegian Housewives’ Association) in 1959-1969. In the 1970s,…

A 28 minutes long slide shows the history of Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. It is divided into four parts: The 19th century history of Karolinska Institute; the development of the Karolinska Institute during the 1900’s; The Nobel Laureates at the Karolinska Institute; Selecting the Nobel Laureates and overview of…