“Writing my thesis was the worst time of my life”
Tim Hunt, Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine 2001, met with PhD student Paulina Tan and spoke about what to do when you have ‘scientist’s block’, the difficulties of research and what caused the Nobel Prize laureate to pursue a career in science. Listen in on their conversation.
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Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009
Elinor Ostrom challenged the conventional wisdom by demonstrating how local property can be successfully managed by local commons without any regulation by central authorities or privatisation. She was the first woman awarded a prize in economic sciences.
Read more about her life in her biography.
Elinor Ostrom delivering a lecture at Indiana University, Bloomington, July 2008.
Photo: Courtesy of Indiana University
Nobel Peace Prize 1992
“If the world does not learn now to show respect to nature, what kind of future will the new generations have?” Rigoberta Menchú Tum, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work for the rights of indigenous peoples, describes her relationship with Earth in her Nobel Prize lecture. Watch and read the lecture here.
“The most important thing is not to give up”
Ales Bialiatski received the news of his 2022 Nobel Peace Prize from jail in Belarus where he was being held as a political prisoner. After his recent release, he spoke to us about his time in prison and shared his views on how everyone can contribute to a better world. “We all have the opportunity to influence the opinion, to make decisions, or in a small circle of friends, a working group or a public organisation where we can be active.” Read more about Bialiatski’s work for human rights in Belarus
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960
A help in solving crimes and a revealer of history’s secrets: radiocarbon dating is one of the keys that unlocks our world.
Nobel Prize-awarded work on microwaves revolutionised our ways of communicating and helped us understand the origins of the universe.
Explore the contributions, careers and lives of women who have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their scientific achievements.
Photo: Johns Hopkins Medicine
Despite the Nobel Prize-awarded discovery of insulin and advances in diabetes treatment, amputations continue to devastate communities around the world. Follow Dr Foluso Fakorede, who fights to save lives in the Mississippi Delta.
Aage Bohr and Niels Bohr on the occasion of the defence of Aage's doctoral thesis, 1954.
Photo: Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen.
