Building molecules is a difficult art.
How can chiral molecules be used to speed up and control important chemical reactions?
Read Vladimir Prelog’s Nobel Prize lecture.
In this game, you decide which objects are chiral and which ones are not.
Economic sciences prize 2025
“I said, ‘Look, Peter, we might get a Nobel with this’”
In 1992, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt presented a mathematical model for what is called creative destruction: when a new and better product enters the market, the companies selling the older products lose out. Listen to the 2025 economic sciences laureate talk about the moment he knew that he and his co-laureate were on to something groundbreaking.
“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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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.
Aage Bohr and Niels Bohr on the occasion of the defence of Aage's doctoral thesis, 1954.
Photo: Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen.
Nobel Prize-awarded work on microwaves revolutionised our ways of communicating and helped us understand the origins of the universe.
