Nobel Prize

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…

Interview, September 2022 Interview with peace laureate Maria Ressa, September 2022 in Oslo, Norway. Maria Ressa answers the following questions (the links below lead to clips on YouTube): Why did you decide to become a journalist? Why is press freedom so important? What is the difference between misinformation and disinformation? How can we combat disinformation?…

Interview, June 2022 “Amazing doesn’t even begin to cover it” If you had the chance to meet a Nobel Prize laureate, what would you ask? High school student Lucas Madrigrano Azeredo met 2021 chemistry laureate David MacMillan 14 June 2022 to talk about life, football and career choices. MacMillan also shared his best advice for…

Interview, January 2024 “Trust your own intuition and ideas” If you had the chance to meet a Nobel Prize laureate, what would you ask? On 23 January 2024, Benjamin List was joined by ten students from all over the world and from different disciplines within science for a conversation on the topic of being a…

Announcement of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 6 October 2021. Interview about the awarded work “It’s a game changer. Like a new chess piece that is very, very powerful” Immediately following the announcement of the 2021 Nobel Prize in…

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…

How can you be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? Here Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, gives an inside look at how the peace prize is awarded. Can you tell us who you are? My name is Berit Reiss-Andersen. I am by profession a lawyer, but I am the chair of the Norwegian…

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…

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 Nobel Peace Prize. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes. Courageous efforts in the name of freedom of expressionMaria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov are…

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 Nobel Prize in Literature. The lesson is designed to take 45 minutes. Stories of a refugee’s experience2021 Nobel Prize laureate in literature Abdulrazak Gurnah has…