The unseen enemy: navigating antimicrobial resistance
The hunt is on to find new antibiotics with the potential to save millions of lives.
Magical realism
Much like fairy tales, magical realism novels blur the lines between fantasy and reality.
Spotlight on literature prize-awarded poets
More prize-awarded literature
In their own words
Literature 2010
“Literature develops readers’ critical attitude towards the world”
Mario Vargas Llosa (1936–2025) on the role of literature in the modern world.
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Literature 2024
“Books were my constant friends”
Han Kang always turned to her books “for protection.”
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Literature 2022
”Memory is a reality, it’s also a way of knowing”
Annie Ernaux on the role of memory in her writing.
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Literature 2018
“Writing is a psychological process”
Listen to Olga Tokarczuk’s advice for aspiring writers.
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Podcast series: Nobel Prize Conversations
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In this podcast conversation, 2024 chemistry laureate John Jumper speaks about the excitement of seeing how AI can help us more in the future.
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The 2024 medicine laureate talks about his scientific journey, his love of science and his experiences on imposter syndrome.
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David Baker, 2024 chemistry laureate, believes that progress in science is made by working together and sharing ideas. Listen to him talk about how he sees mentoring as one of the most essential parts of his job.
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The 2024 economic sciences laureate James Robinson has about 10 000 books at home. Hear him talk about how his interest for social sciences, politics and economic sciences was sparked at a young age, as well as his opinions on field work.
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Hear the 2024 physics laureate talk about the development of AI, his fascination with understanding the human brain and how his family legacy of successful scientists put pressure on Hinton to follow in their footsteps.
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2024 economic sciences laureate Daron Acemoglu: “If you listen to every comment that you receive from every economist and every seminar, then you are just going to be at the very average of everybody’s opinion, which is not an original place to be.”
Luc Montagnier, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Jean-Claude Chermann, the French scientists who helped discover the causes of AIDS, in their laboratory of Pasteur Institute in Paris, 1984
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Aage Bohr and Niels Bohr on the occasion of the defence of Aage's doctoral thesis, 1954.
Photo: Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen.
More Nobel Prize-awarded families
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Mother and daughter
Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie
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Married couple
Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
Students meet Nobel Prize laureate
“As a scientist, make sure students become critical thinkers”
2020 physics laureate Andrea Ghez was joined by students from all over the world for a conversation on the topic of being a scientist. Ghez gave her best advice for maintaining a good work-life balance and spoke about AI in physics.
Objects filled with meaning
50 years on: discover the 1975 Nobel Prizes
Medicine
Insights into how cancer can arise
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.
Medicine discoveries in focus
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.
Preparing syringe for insulin shot.
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Learn more about the Nobel Prizes 2024
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.
Laureates against nuclear weapons
Five documentaries inspired by the Nobel Peace Prize
Follow Hana Khider and her all-female team of Yazidi deminers attempting to clear their land of mines. Their job involves painstakingly searching for booby traps in bombed out buildings and fields, where one wrong move means certain death.
