Aage Bohr and Niels Bohr on the occasion of the defence of Aage's doctoral thesis, 1954.

Photo: Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen.

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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.

In their own words

Prose by literature laureates

Read an excerpt from Voices of Chernobyl.

Svetlana Alexievich

Svetlana Alexievich.

Photo: Kyodo/AP Images

Enjoy poetry from the 1996 literature laureate.

Wisława Szymborska

Wisława Szymborska, 1996.

Photo: Czarek Sokolowski—AP/REX/Shutterstock.com

Read an excerpt from Sula.

Woman with book

Toni Morrison.

Photo: Bernard Gotfryd Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (reproduction no. LC-DIG-gtfy-02425)

Poetry pioneer

This year marks 80 years since Chilean Gabriela Mistral became the first South American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Working as a teacher from an early age, Mistral started writing poetry after a stormy relationship. She came to play an important role in the educational system in Chile and Mexico.

Gabriela Mistral

Objects filled with meaning

50 years on: discover the 1975 Nobel Prizes

Medicine discoveries in focus

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

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.

Laureates against nuclear weapons

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Showing extraordinary courage

Nobel Peace Prize 2018

“I needed to own my own story”

Nadia Murad on how society can punish acts of sexual violence in war and why she found it important to speak out about sexual violence.

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.

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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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