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
Podcast series: Nobel Prize Conversations
“We’re exploring the plasticity of biology ”
In this conversation with molecular biologist Gary Ruvkun, we discover his scientific journey and find out that the world of genetics still has many fields left to explore.
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Victor Ambros on how to deal with imposter syndrome
The 2024 medicine laureate talks about his scientific journey, his love of science and his experiences on imposter syndrome.
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A true believer in collaboration
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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“I just think a book can change your life”
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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Geoffrey Hinton on the dangers of AI
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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“Don’t listen to comments too much”
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.”
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John Jumper on his scientific journey
In this podcast conversation, 2024 chemistry laureate John Jumper speaks about the excitement of seeing how AI can help us more in the future.
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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Students meet Nobel Prize laureates
“Comedy is a form of intelligence”
If you had the chance to meet a Nobel Prize laureate, what would you ask? In the video series Students meet Nobel Prize laureates, students from all over the world meet Nobel Prize laureates for conversations on being a scientist. Here, 2024 medicine laureate Gary Ruvkun shares how humour is an important part of doing science.
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
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.
