Nobel Prize

On 12 April a live streamed webinar on the rapidly developing scientific and policy attention associated to the ocean will take place. This webinar is part of the Nobel Prize Summit ‘Our Planet, Our Future’, a global online event taking place 26-28 April. The CEO of the Nobel Foundation will take part in the event. …

On 8 April, Nobel Prize laureates and will take part in a digital event talking about their work as scientists, their lives and the value of science. The event is dedicated to inspiring students from all over Brazil to devote their career to science. The discussions during the session will focus on the value of…

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 4-11 October. All the announcements will be broadcast live on the official digital channels of the Nobel Prize and in-depth material about the prizes will be published at www.nobelprize.org.  The prize-awarding institutions have decided to announce their 2021 prize decisions as follows: PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE –…

The first Nobel Prize Summit “Our Planet, Our Future” will bring together Nobel Prize laureates and other esteemed leaders in the sciences, policy, business, the youth movement, and the arts to explore actions that can be achieved this decade to put the world on a path to a more sustainable, more prosperous future for all.…

There is a project of some cultural-historical value that has gone largely undetected until now. Together with Uppsala University and the Swedish National Heritage Board, the Nobel Prize Museum has been analysing the contents of forty-three old ceramic bottles that were used in Alfred Nobel’s laboratories. When Alfred Nobel died in 1896, he had laboratories…

Serge Haroche shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics with David Wineland for “ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.”

What makes us listen to science? is a recorded conversation about how scientists can find new ways to convey important research findings and generate interest in their announcements.  It features environmental researcher Johan Rockström, Nobel Laureate Sir Richard J. Roberts and Anna Sjöström Douagi, Vice President for Science and Programmes at Stockholm’s Nobel Prize Museum.…

The Nobel Prize Dialogue has been inspired by the Nobel Week Dialogue, which has been taking place in Sweden since 2012 on the day preceding the Nobel Prize award ceremony. Laura Sprechmann, Nobel Prize Outreach CEO, on Nobel Week Dialogue in Stockholm held on 9 Decemeber 2020. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Clément Morin Nobel…

The Nobel Prize medal and diploma were presented to physics laureate Andrea Ghez in Los Angeles late in the afternoon of 9 December. This means that all laureates have received their medal and diploma apart from the World Food Programme, which will receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Rome on the Nobel Day. “This year…

Juleen Zierath is professor of clinical integrative physiology at Karolinska lnstitutet. Her research has revealed key steps in insulin signaling pathways that are impaired in diabetic patients.