Nobel Prize

The 2025 Nobel Prizes range from the discovery of a previously unknown immune cell, quantum mechanics and tunnelling, new materials known as MOFs, to the writings of László Krasznahorkai, the struggle for democracy in Venezuela and economic growth. This is a ready to use Nobel Prize lesson on all the 2025 Nobel Prizes. The lesson…

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 in an electrical circuit that we can see with our naked eyes and hold in our hands.

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.

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 time that they are measured in attoseconds. An attosecond is so short that there as many of them in a second as there are seconds in the entire lifetime of the universe.

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 are sent between them. But is it possible to test whether this theory is actually correct? Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger succeeded in developing experiments that demonstrated that entanglement is real and that the theory of quantum mechanics is correct.

Our world is full of complex and disordered phenomena and processes. For example, the climate can be described as a system of many components that interact in various ways. How can we describe and predict how such systems change? This is what the 2021 Nobel Prize laureates in physics have explained. The laureates’ models have been used to demonstrate how elevated levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere lead to higher temperatures on the surface of the earth, and to show that global warming is the result of humanity’s emissions of greenhouse gases.

This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize Lesson – a ready to use lesson on the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes and includes a teacher’s guide, a slide show, a speaker’s manuscript, videos and a student work sheet.

This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize Lesson – a ready to use lesson on the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes.

This is a step-by-step timetable for the Nobel Prize Lesson about a 2018 Nobel Prize.