Nobel Prize

English The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 We are used to the great impact scientific discoveries have on our ways of thinking. This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is no exception. What we have been taught about plastic is that it is a good insulator – otherwise we should not use it as insulation in…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 10 oktober 2000 Vi har fått vänja oss vid att stora vetenskapliga upptäckter förändrar vårt sätt att tänka. Årets Nobelpris i kemi är inget undantag. Det vi lärt oss om plast är att det är en god isolator – ja, varför skulle den annars användas som isolering i elsladdar? Men nu är…

English Information for the Public Traditionally, economic theory has relied on the assumption of a “homo œconomicus”, whose behavior is governed by self-interest and who is capable of rational decision-making. Economics has also been regarded as a non-experimental science, where researchers – as in astronomy or meteorology – have had to rely exclusively on field…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information Nationalekonomisk teori har traditionellt byggt på antagandet om en “homo œconomicus” vars handlande styrs av egenintresse och rationalitet. Ekonomi har också setts som en icke-experimentell vetenskap, där forskare – liksom inom astronomi och meteorologi – varit begränsade till data “från fältet”, dvs. direkta observationer av verkligheten. Bilden har dock förändrats under de…

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English The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2002 is being shared between scientists in two important fields: mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). The Laureates, John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka (for MS) and Kurt Wüthrich (for NMR), have contributed in different ways to the further development…

Swedish Populärvetenskaplig information 9 oktober 2002 Nobelpriset i kemi 2002 delas mellan forskare som vidareutvecklat två viktiga analysmetoder: masspektrometri (MS) och kärnmagnetisk resonans (NMR). Pristagarna John B. Fenn och Koichi Tanaka (båda för MS) samt Kurt Wüthrich (för NMR) har på olika sätt bidragit till att vidareutveckla dessa metoder till att omfatta biologiska makromolekyler. Detta…

The Prize in Economic Sciences 2013 There is no way to predict whether the price of stocks and bonds will go up or down over the next few days or weeks. But it is quite possible to foresee the broad course of the prices of these assets over longer time periods, such as, the next…

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 Chemical reactions occur at lightning speed; electrons jump between atoms hidden from the prying eyes of scientists. The Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2013 have made it possible to map the mysterious ways of chemistry by using computers. Detailed knowledge of chemical processes makes it possible to optimize catalysts, drugs…

In 1964, independently of each other, Peter Higgs and François Englert put forward a theory that rescued the Standard Model from collapse. Almost half a century later, they were both in the audience at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN, outside Geneva, when the discovery of a Higgs particle that finally confirmed the theory was announced to the world.