Nobel Prize

The Nobel Peace Conference and Festival will gather Nobel Peace Prize laureates, nuclear experts, decision makers and activists in Oslo on Hiroshima Day 6 August 2025. The Nobel Peace Conference 2025 celebrates Nobel Peace Prize laureate ’s work for a world free of nuclear weapons. The same day, the world marks 80 years since the…

With over twenty years of experience in mathematical cryptography, María Isabel González Vasco currently holds a Chair of Excellence in the Department of Mathematics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Nobel Prize Conversations “When we’re doing genetics, we are tapping into that mythic power of change.”  In this conversation with molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun, we discover his scientific journey and find out that the world of genetics still has many fields left to explore.  A natural storyteller, Ruvkun also shares some of his favourite tales…

The recently recovered patent documents belonging to Alfred Nobel have been handed over to the Nobel Foundation and will be on public display at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm throughout the summer. The documents, discovered earlier this year in a summer cottage in Blekinge, include around twenty patents and applications from the 1860s and…

Nobel Prize Conversations “I really love the notion of contributing something to physics.” Chemistry laureate John Jumper has always been passionate about science and understanding the world. With the AI tool AlphaFold, he and his co-laureate Demis Hassabis have provided a possibility to predict protein structures. In this podcast conversation, Jumper speaks about the excitement…

Tolullah Oni is a public health physician, scientist and urban epidemiologist, and clinical professor with the University of Cambridge MRC Epidemiology Unit’s Global Public Health Research programme.

Nobel Prize Conversations “The reason why I was doing science all these years is because I just love doing it.” Medicine laureate Victor Ambros grew up on a farm with seven siblings. Throughout his career, he has seen collaboration as a crucial part of science. In this podcast conversation with Adam Smith, Ambros talks about…

Nobel Prize Conversations “Asking is hard. Once you realise there’s an interesting question to develop answers to, it is even harder.” Growing up in Istanbul, Turkey, shaped Daron Acemoglu’s life and career in many ways. It sparked his interest in politics and social sciences and led to a research career investigating the differences in prosperity…

Nobel Prize Conversations “If you imagine each researcher as a kind of a neuron in the communal brain, then people call me a connection machine.” David Baker is a true believer in collaboration. He sees mentoring as one of the most essential parts of his job. Baker spends most of his time at his laboratory…

Nobel Prize Conversations “I just think a book can change your life.” 2024 economic sciences laureate James Robinson loves books – he has about 10 000 at home. Growing up without a TV, he and his mother spent evenings discussing news from the newspaper and reading. It’s no wonder his interest for social sciences, politics…