Banquet dessert – how it’s done
Pastry chef Frida Bäcke used a variety of Swedish apples to create the ultimate dessert for the Nobel Prize banquet 2024. Take a look at how Frida plates the dessert to perfection.
Nobel Prize banquet menu
Highlights from Nobel Week Lights
1 (of 8) The installation Nematode, a glowing dynamic presence, is inspired by this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: STUDIO DUKTIG
2 (of 8) Giant bacteria have taken over the walls at Benny Fredrikssons torg.
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: Led by Nobel Week Lights, BioCanvas is a collaboration between 5th grade students from Husbygårdsskolan, Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Prize Museum.
3 (of 8) Nobel Week Lights 2024: ‘Leading Lights’ by Les Atelier BK is a luminous tribute to the brilliance of female pioneers. Drawing inspiration from extensive scientific and historical research, the piece is a grand celebration of their groundbreaking contributions to humanity.
Photo: Benoît Derrier. Artist: Les Atelier BK
4 (of 8) FLUX is an immersive light installation by Ksawery Komputery that visualizes the invisible data streams connecting us all.
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: Ksawery Komputery
5 (of 8) Love at First Sight explores fate, destiny and the mysterious forces that shape our lives.
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: SMASH
6 (of 8) This artwork is in conversation with Nobel Prize laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s play, The Waterfall, where themes of nature versus artifice and control versus freedom are deeply explored.
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: Studio UxU
7 (of 8) With Lotus Pods, artist David Ram invites the audience to become curious and be intertwined with a mysterious playful world.
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: David Ram
8 (of 8) Where is My Land by Runo Lagomarsino and Carla Zaccagnini consists of the phrases “NOWHERE IS MY LAND” and “ANYWHERE IS MY LAND.”
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: Runo Lagomarsino & Carla Zaccagnini
Behind the scenes of Nobel Week
Memories from Nobel Week
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Günter Grass, literature 1999
Moments of joy from the banquet
Explore the photo gallery.
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Robert Curl, chemistry 1996
“I became increasingly nervous”
Watch the interview.
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Alan Hodgkin, medicine 1963
“Pleasure to be in Stockholm”
Read the banquet speech.
Solar glory
When standing on the summit of Scotland’s highest mountain Ben Nevis in 1894, C.T.R. Wilson was struck by the beauty of coronas and “glories.” He decided to imitate these natural phenomena in the laboratory.
130 years later, artist Uljana Baykevych celebrates Wilson’s Nobel Prize awarded discovery of the cloud chamber through an interactive installation in Stockholm.
Solar Glory – an interactive light installation in Stockholm.
Courtesy of Uljana Baykevych
Watch the one-minute crash course
What does microRNA do?
Have you heard of microRNA?
This tiny molecule plays a crucial role in protein production in our cells.
Book tips
Discover the works of Han Kang
Curious about 2024 literature laureate Han Kang but unsure which of her books to pick up first? Here Steve Sem-Sandberg from the Swedish Academy gives his recommendations.
Books by Han Kang.
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Health and literature
In this interview, 2018 literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk reflects on what health means to her, how literature and mental health are connected, and what she learned from working as a psychologist.
Olga Tokarczuk takes part in the event the ‘Future of Health’ on 9 December. Read more about the event here
Learn more about the Nobel Prizes 2024
From poetic prose that confronts historical traumas to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. From predicting proteins’ complex structures to training artificial neural networks using physics. From microRNA to new insights into how institutions affect prosperity.
Nobel Prize call – the 2024 laureates' first reactions
Economic sciences laureate 2024
“Get up, you need to get up!”
James Robinson was awakened by his family.
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Chemistry laureate 2024
“It’s a great honour”
David Baker on the potential of building brand new proteins.
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Medicine laureate 2024
“It’s going to be a fun ride”
Gary Ruvkun on the pleasure of finding things out.
Learn how to fold a paper crane
A symbol for the fight to abolish nuclear weapons
The Nobel Peace Prize 2024 is awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, an organisation of survivors from the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The origami crane has become symbolic to their fight to abolish nuclear weapons.
Watch this tutorial to learn how to fold your own paper crane.
150 years since the birth of Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was one of the 20th century’s most prominent statesmen. However, the Nobel Prize awarded to him was in literature, “for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.” In the presentation speech at the award ceremony, the Swedish Academy pointed out: “Very seldom have great statesmen and warriors also been great writers.”
Spotlight on insulin
Insulin: The story behind the discovery
Diabetes used to be a death sentence, but that changed in 1922 when a teenager’s miraculous recovery brought hope to millions.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977
Rosalyn Yalow
Tracked insulin by injecting radioactive iodine into patients’ blood.
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Discoveries through the ages
60 years ago
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s discoveries in biochemistry and medicine include the determination of the structure of penicillin.
Photo: Science Museum London/Science and Society Picture Library [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
30 years ago
John Nash was awarded the prize in economic sciences for his work in game theory, and more specifically for his “Nash equilibrium theory”.
Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
10 years ago
Learn about the discovery of “grid cells” that generate a coordinate system and allow for precise positioning and pathfinding.
Geir Mogen/Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
Delve deeper
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) has become the strongest symbol of non-violence in the 20th century. It is widely held – in retrospect – that the Indian national leader should have been selected for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize. Why?
Mahatma Gandhi laughing.
Photo: Public domain.
Women who changed science
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A team of female Yazidi deminers in Iraq attempting to clear their land of mines left behind by ISIS. A team of scientists on an extraordinary mission in Mozambique to help better our understanding of climate change. A man building prosthetic legs to help victims of war walk again in South Sudan … All are inspired by Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
