The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024

Institutions and economics

Champions against nuclear weapons

Spotlight on: The Nobel Prize in Literature

  • “They are searching meanings in life”

    Han Kang talks about how writers as a collective have influenced her: “All their efforts and strengths have been my inspiration.”

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  • What to read?

    Curious to read 2024 literature laureate Han Kang? Steve Sem-Sandberg from the Swedish Academy gives his book tips.

    A collection of books

Spotlight on: Nobel Prizes for proteins

Podcast interviews with chemistry laureates

Big science leads to big discoveries

Inside the mind of a physics laureate

Perspectives on life

The right way to be wrong

Ever wondered how Nobel Prize laureates think about the world? 2011 physics laureate Saul Perlmutter advocates for a world where we are more careful with what we say is truth.

More videos on how to think like a laureate

Celebrating C. elegans

Podcast interviews with medicine laureates

Discoveries through the ages

60 years ago
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin’s discoveries in biochemistry and medicine include the determination of the structure of penicillin.
Molecular model of penicillin by Dorothy Hodgkin, c.1945.

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”. 
Chess

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.
Neuron

Geir Mogen/Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

Featured videos

Student meets laureate

“Science is done by feeling good and getting ideas”

16 students from all over the world, and from different disciplines within science, joined a conversation with physics laureate Didier Queloz, focusing on the topic of being a scientist. The questions ranged from hobbies and creativity to social responsibility and underrepresented students.
Student meets laureate

“If you learned something from it, it’s not a failure”

Karolinska Institutet student Sofia Iskrak met 2022 chemistry laureate Carolyn Bertozzi to ask her pressing questions, including what Bertozzi was like as a student, her favourite science-themed reads, and her advice for students who are thinking of pursuing science.

Whose truth? Listen to the podcast series

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

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.

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