Nobel Prize

This is not a spade: The poetry of Seamus Heaney by Ola Larsmo This article was published on 20 February 2007. At the core of Seamus Heaney’s poetry a profound experience is revealed – that a gap exists between the totality of what can be said and the totality of all that can be witnessed,…

by Per Olof Hulth Introduction Mankind has studied the universe for thousands of years by looking at the fascinating night sky, guided by the visible light emitted from myriads of stars and other phenomena. During the last century new pictures of the night sky have been discovered by scientists using different wavelengths of light which…

The first third of the 20th century was a period of major revolutionary developments in physics. It began with d tearing down the reigning paradigm of Newtonian physics. Milestones in experimental work on the atom by the likes of , Hans Geiger, and soon followed. During the 1920s, , , , , and others laid…

by Stig Fredrikson This article was published on 22 February 2006. How I helped Alexandr Solzhenitsyn smuggle his Nobel Lecture from the USSR A controversial Nobel Prize When was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, he was already an outcast in his native country, the Soviet Union. After the novel “One Day in…

Is there life after Nobel coronation? by Paul A. Samuelson1970 laureate in economic sciences7 March 2002 The role of luck Young Einsteins and Bohrs may have been inspired to be more creative and harder workers by the dream of winning a Nobel Prize. Since there was no political economy Nobel award before 1968, that could…

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by Ivar Libæk The International Committee of the Red Cross was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in , and – on the third occasion jointly with the League of Red Cross Societies. This makes the Red Cross unique: no recipient has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as often as this organisation. The very first…

Tagore and his India by This article was published on 28 August 2001. Voice of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore, who died in 1941 at the age of eighty, is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s…

by Kjell Espmark Nobel’s will and the Literature Prize Among the five prizes provided for in (1895), one was intended for the person who, in the literary field, had produced “the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”. The Laureate should be determined by “the Academy in Stockholm”, which was specified by the statutes of…