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2022 Nobel Prize announcements
WHAT ACHIEVEMENTS WILL BE AWARDED THIS YEAR?
Between 1901 and 2021, the Nobel Prizes and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in
Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel were awarded 609 times to 975 people
and organizations.
Stay tuned during 3-10 October to discover who will receive this year’s prizes.
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THE FIRST NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1901
WHY DO PLANTS WITHER?
And what makes the sap of the oak tree rise? Jacobus H. van ‘t Hoff, born this
day 170 years ago, was the first Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry. He explained
osmotic pressure and its importance in plant and animal life in his Nobel Prize
lecture.
NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020
“TRY AND FIND SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE A PASSION FOR”
“I think the successful scientists are really doing it because they’re curious
and they’re doing this because there’s nothing else we’d rather be doing. I
guess we sometimes get called workaholics or things like that. I would say maybe
we’re more hobbyholics in the sense that we have been fortunate enough to have
what we get paid to do as our hobby”.
Read the interview with medicine laureate Charles Rice
Charlie Rice (right) in the laboratory with a student.
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NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATES SHARE THEIR STORIES
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018
JAMES P. ALLISON: "I CAN’T HELP BUT CRY WHENEVER I TELL THIS STORY"
“I can’t help but cry whenever I tell this story. My meeting with Sharon was my
first experience of how years of research as a basic scientist could have an
impact on patients.”
Tasuku Honjo and James P. Allison's meeting with cancer survivors
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2018
DONNA STRICKLAND: "I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED GOING TO SCHOOL"
“I have always loved going to school. I was one of those rare kids who was happy
to have summer vacation over so I could go back to school. I started this love
affair with school at Victory Public School.”
Donna Strickland in the laboratory.
Courtesy of University of Waterloo
Prize in economic sciences 2019
ABHIJIT BANERJEE: "AS A CHILD OF ECONOMISTS…
…I knew that economics was one field I must avoid. My father was a famously
charismatic teacher, who adored and was much adored by his many students. He
would often talk about just how brilliant some of them were, and it was clear to
me that I had nothing to gain and much to lose by inviting comparisons with
them.”
Abhijit Banerjee after receiving his Nobel Prize at Konserthuset Stockholm, 10
December 2019.
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NOBEL PRIZE NOMINATIONS
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WHO SELECTS THE LAUREATES?
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EXPLORE THE NOMINATION ARCHIVE
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MAHATMA GANDHI – THE MISSING LAUREATE
Mohandas Gandhi has become the strongest symbol of non-violence in the 20th
century. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize. Why?
NOBEL PRIZE CONVERSATIONS
Nobel Peace Prize 2021
”REAL LIFE IS STRANGER THAN FICTION RIGHT NOW”
“We must get up, we must work like maniacs – because time is running out.” Maria
Ressa speaks passionately as she discusses how authoritarians exploit social
media to unravel democracy, what needs to be done to fight this and when she
thinks the damage might become irreversible.
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EXPLORE AND LEARN
19 REMARKABLE SCIENTISTS AND THEIR STORIES
Explore a storytelling experience that celebrates and explores the
contributions, careers and lives of 19 women who have been awarded Nobel Prizes
for their scientific achievements.
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FIVE DOCUMENTARIES INSPIRED BY THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
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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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930
THE BLOOD TYPING GAME
How much do you know about blood types? Did you know that human blood groups
were discovered by Nobel Prize laureate Karl Landsteiner in 1901?
Learn more about the way to find out about the human blood groups, blood typing
and the importance of safe blood transfusions. See if you can save the lives of
the patients in the game!
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1904
PAVLOV'S DOG
Is it possible to train a dog to drool on command? Learn about conditioned
reflexes in this interactive game!
With this animated game, teachers are able to illustrate classical conditioning
in the classroom. The object of the game is to train Pavlov’s dog to respond to
a signal that it will associate with being fed.
In 1904, Ivan Pavlov was awarded with Nobel Prize for his pioneering studies of
how the digestive system works.
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MEET NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATES IN MINECRAFT
Discover the stories of four peace laureates – Malala Yousafzai, Wangari
Maathai, Dalai Lama and Fridtjof Nansen – in the new Minecraft universe ‘Active
Citizen’.
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Nobel Peace Center, Minecraft: Education Edition and Games for Change. Play the
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NEWS
2022 Nobel Prize Concert
SOPRANO DIANA DAMRAU SOLOIST AT THE NOBEL PRIZE CONCERT
Bringing extra star power to this year’s Nobel Prize Concert on 8 December will
be German soprano Diana Damrau. Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck will lead the
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the concert.
Tickets will be released on 20 October at Konserthuset Stockholm.
Soprano Diana Damrau
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NEW NOBEL CENTER TAKES THE NEXT STEP
The Nobel Foundation has announced that funding has been secured to build the
Nobel Center − a home for science, culture and dialogue to be located at Slussen
in central Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel Center will offer a broad range of
public activities including exhibitions, school programmes, lectures and
conversations about the major issues of the future.
Read more here
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RECENTLY PUBLISHED
* The Nobel Foundation annual report 2021
* The Nobel Foundation annual review 2021
* Nobelstiftelsen. Årsredovisning 2021
* Nobelstiftelsen. Verksamhetsberättelse 2021
NOBEL PRIZES 2021
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
THEY FOUND HIDDEN PATTERNS IN THE CLIMATE AND IN OTHER COMPLEX PHENOMENA
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded “for groundbreaking contributions to
our understanding of complex systems” with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe
and Klaus Hasselmann “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying
variability and reliably predicting global warming” and the other half to
Giorgio Parisi “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations
in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.”
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
THEIR TOOLS REVOLUTIONISED THE CONSTRUCTION OF MOLECULES
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 was awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David
W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”
©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021
DISCOVERIES OF RECEPTORS FOR TEMPERATURE AND TOUCH
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 was awarded jointly to David
Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature
and touch.”
© The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
AN UNENDING EXPLORATION DRIVEN BY INTELLECTUAL PASSION
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his
uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and
the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2021
FOR THEIR EFFORTS TO SAFEGUARD FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 was awarded jointly to Maria Ressa and Dmitry
Andreyevich Muratov “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which
is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”
Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021
NATURAL EXPERIMENTS HELP ANSWER IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021
was divided, one half awarded to David Card “for his empirical contributions to
labour economics”, the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W.
Imbens “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal
relationships.”
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ALFRED NOBEL – ESTABLISHED THE NOBEL PRIZE
ALFRED NOBEL'S LAST WILL
On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will in Paris, France. The
Swedish dynamite millionaire, who thought that his invention would end all wars,
had now realised that it was a very deadly product. Wanting to make amends, he
did what no man of such wealth had done before …
THE VERY FIRST NOBEL PRIZES
On 10 December 1901 the first Nobel Prizes were awarded, in physics, chemistry,
physiology or medicine, literature and peace. Read more about the first prizes.
ALFRED NOBEL – SCIENTIST AND INVENTOR
Chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel left 31 million SEK (today
about 265 million dollar) to fund the Nobel Prizes. Read more about his life and
work.
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IN MEMORIAM
PEACE NEGOTIATOR DAVID TRIMBLE DIES AT 77
David Trimble passed away on 25 July. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize
together with John Hume for their efforts to find a peaceful solution to the
conflict in Northern Ireland.
FULLERENE DISCOVERER ROBERT F. CURL JR. DIES
Robert F. Curl Jr. was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 for the
discovery of a new form of the element carbon, the fullerenes. He passed away on
3 July, age 88.
BEN R. MOTTELSON 1926‒2022
Physics laureate Ben R. Mottelson passed away on 13 May, age 95. He was awarded
the Nobel Prize “for the discovery of the connection between collective motion
and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the
structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection”.
SIDNEY ALTMAN PASSES AWAY AT 82
Molecular biologist Sidney Altman passed away on 5 April. He was awarded the
1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the the unexpected discovery that RNA is not
only a molecule of heredity in living cells, but also can serve as a
biocatalyst.
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