Can you match the portrait of the Nobel Prize laureate with their Nobel Prize-awarded discovery? Drag the images from left to right to pair, and press check to see your result.

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Featured laureates

Linda B. Buck

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004 for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system.

Jennifer A. Doudna

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for the development of a method for genome editing.

Andrea Ghez

Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.

Maria Ressa

Nobel Peace Prize 2021 for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.

Ada E. Yonath

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.

Elizabeth H. Blackburn

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009 for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.

Claudia Goldin

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.

Barbara McClintock

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983 for her discovery of mobile genetic elements.

Wangari Muta Maathai

Nobel Peace Prize 2004 for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace.

May-Britt Moser

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.

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Image credits
Jennifer Doudna: Photo: Brittany Hosea-Small; Andrea Ghez: Photo: Annette Buhl; Maria Ressa: Photo: Geir Anders Rybakken Ørslien; Ada Yonath, Elizabeth Blackburn: Photo: U. Montan. Wangari Maathai: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive; Claudia Goldin: Photo: Clément Morin; Barbara McClintock: Photo: David Micklos. From the Nobel Foundation archive; May-Britt Moser: Photo: The Nobel Foundation.

Hand and pen: Ill. Niklas Elmehed; Black hole: Event Horizon Telescope, uploader cropped and converted TIF to JPG, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Telomeres: AJC1, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Scissors drawing: Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Ribosome: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; Nose: Allan-Hermann Pool, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons; Trees: Green Belt Movement; Magnifying glass: Nanaka Adachi; Corncobs: Courtesy of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Photo: Jan Eve Olsson; Toy rat: Nobel Prize Museum.