Nobel Prize

Interview with the 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros, recorded on 6 December 2024 during Nobel Week in Stockholm, Sweden. How has your childhood influenced your scientific path?  Victor Ambros: I think my childhood experiences were definitely influential in the sense that growing up on a farm in a large family you had a lot of…

Around the world, scientists and healthcare professionals continue to build on the foundations laid by Nobel Prize laureates. In this short clip from the film Bloodlines, Mississippi, we follow a doctor’s mission to advocate for an often-overlooked community facing preventable losses. Short clip: “Bloodlines, Mississippi” Despite advances in diabetes treatment, amputations continue to devastate communities…

The 1957 Nobel Prize laureates assembled onstage for the Nobel Prize award ceremony on 10 December. From left: Physics laureates Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, chemistry laureate Lord Todd, medicine laureate Daniel Bovet and literature laureate Albert Camus.

Around the world, scientists and healthcare professionals continue to build on the foundations laid by Nobel Prize laureates. In the short clip Shadows in Sunlight, directed by Ruhi Hamid, we follow Ishrat Rahim who vaccinates children against polio in Pakistan.  Short clip: “Shadows in Sunlight” Ishrat Rahim is one of almost 400,000 women working across…

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First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2025 “I thought there was a grizzly bear nearby” Actually, what Fred Ramsdell’s wife was telling him, while on a hiking trip together, was that he had been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In this conversation, Ramsdell speaks about the benefits of working in the environment…

Fred Ramsdell receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2025. Fred Ramsdell lecturing at Karolinska Institutet, 7 December 2025. The 2025 medicine laureates after their Nobel Prize lectures. Fred Ramsdell with his signed chair at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, 6 December 2025.…

Shimon Sakaguchi receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2025. Shimon Sakaguchi lecturing at Karolinska Institutet, 7 December 2025. The 2025 medicine laureates after their Nobel Prize lectures. Medicine laureate Shimon Sakaguchi arriving to the Nobel Prize Museum for the Get together with the…

Mary E. Brunkow receiving her Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2025. Mary E. Brunkow lecturing at Karolinska Institutet, 7 December 2025. The 2025 medicine laureates after their Nobel Prize lectures. Mary E. Brunkow with her signed chair at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm,…

First reactions. Telephone interview, October 2025 “It hasn’t quite hit me yet” “My phone rang, and I saw a number from Sweden and thought, well that’s just spam of some sort, so I disabled the phone and went back to sleep.” Mary Brunkow clearly wasn’t expecting the call from Stockholm. This brief conversation with the…