Chemistry 2018
2018 chemistry laureate Frances Arnold wants to inspire women to pursue in science. In this interview, she tells the story of her career and shares her thoughts about how more women can be encouraged into science.
Frances Arnold at the Swedish International Women's Forum in Stockholm on 6 December 2018.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 1903, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911
Nobel Prize in Medicine 1947
Nobel Prize in Literature 1909
Nobel Peace Prize 1905
Prize in economic sciences 2009
Read an excerpt from Voices of Chernobyl.
Svetlana Alexievich.
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Enjoy poetry from the 1996 literature laureate.
Wisława Szymborska, 1996.
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Read an excerpt from Sula.
Toni Morrison.
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David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco and Howard Temin showed how the virus does its job, the interaction between tumour viruses and the genetic material of the cell.
Want to know more about works by the literature laureates? The experts behind the Nobel Prize in Literature let you in on their reading recommendations.
Over the years, Nobel Prize-awarded advances in medicine show that remarkable progress is possible.
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Read about how scientists found ways to use the immune system to treat cancer.
Nobel Prize laureate Tasuku Honjo, surrounded by his team at Kyoto University, immediately after hearing the news that he had been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The story behind insulin, that helps some of the over 400 million people around the world with diabetes.
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The inventions behind AI
How can computers mimic functions such as memory and learning? The inventions behind the 2024 physics prize have formed the basis of what we call artificial intelligence.
From poetic prose that confronts historical traumas to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. From predicting proteins’ complex structures to training artificial neural networks using physics. From microRNA to new insights into how institutions affect prosperity.
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.
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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.
