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  1. 4 hours ago

    Let's take a look at some highlights from last week when our Nobel Laureates were celebrated all over the world. Congratulations again to all our 2020 Laureates!

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  2. 10 hours ago

    Ever since chemist and Nobel Laureate Willard Libby, born , first realised that carbon-14 could act like a clock, it has been used to help archaeologists date everything from wood to food, pollen, and even dead animals and humans.

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  3. 22 hours ago

    Remembering Jack Steinberger who has passed away aged 99. Steinberger was awarded the 1988 Physics Prize alongside Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz after managing to create a beam of neutrinos using a high-energy accelerator and proving the existence of the muon neutrino.

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  4. 24 hours ago

    ”EUREKA!!!!” When Kary Mullis discovered how to copy or “amplify” small segments of DNA on 16 December 1983. The method PCR makes it possible to copy a large number of DNA fragments in only a few hours. Read 1993 Chemistry Laureate Kary Mullis’ story:

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  5. Dec 16

    “The results are very surprising, shocking even." On the eve of his honeymoon Nobel Laureate Adam Reiss, whose birthday is today, sent this message to his colleagues after their studies of supernovae showed that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate.

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  6. Dec 16

    Why were impact factors developed? Randy Schekman explains how impact factors were designed as a tool to help libraries select which journals to subscribe to, not as a way to judge individual researchers:

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  7. Dec 15

    Have you heard about the Nobel Prize-awarded couple Gunnar and Alva Myrdal? Gunnar Myrdal received the 1974 Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on the interrelations between economic and social processes. Diplomat Alva Myrdal was awarded the 1982 .

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  8. Dec 15

    "I’m gratified that the Nobel committee recognise the power of observation, and the power of non-directed research. Where the end cannot even be envisioned at the beginning and where time is allowed for this work to progress to its natural fruition.” - 2020 laureate Harvey Alter

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  9. Dec 15

    Remembering the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity, Henri Becquerel, who was born in 1852. After his discovery in 1896, Marie and Pierre Curie made further investigations into the phenomenon. All three shared the 1903 Physics Prize for the discovery.

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  10. Dec 14

    : Economic Sciences Laureate Elinor Ostrom receives her prize on 10 December 2009. Ostrom was the first woman to receive the Prize in Economic Sciences. In 2019, Esther Duflo became the second woman to receive the Prize in Economic Sciences.

    Elinor Ostrom receives her Nobel Prize
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  11. Dec 14

    With the help of the Keck Observatory telescopes, 2020 Nobel Laureate Andrea Ghez and her research team revealed that an invisible and massive object governs the stars’ orbits at the centre of our galaxy. A supermassive black hole is the only currently known explanation.

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  12. Dec 14

    Henri Becquerel produced this image in 1901, showing his experiments with beta ray emission from uranium. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for his work, alongside Marie Skłodowska Curie and Pierre Curie.

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  13. Dec 13

    Who is your biggest role model? As a young girl 2020 Physics Laureate Andrea Ghez was fascinated by the remarkable scientist, Marie Skłodowska Curie. In our newest podcast, Ghez speaks about how much difference a strong role model can make. Listen here:

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  14. Dec 13

    Watch the very moment 2020 Literature Laureate Louise Glück received her medal and diploma. Glück received the prize “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.

    Presentation of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
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  15. Dec 13

    "I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin." Influenced by his mother, Albert Einstein was a dedicated violinist from an early age. He often played classical music on his violin (that he named Lina) as a brainstorming technique.

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  16. Dec 13

    Watch the very moment the 2020 Medicine Laureates received their Nobel Prizes - congratulations! Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice received the Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”

    Presentation of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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  17. Dec 12

    "I could find my creativity by constantly reinventing myself." Meet 2020 Chemistry Laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier in an intimate and reflective podcast conversation with the Nobel Prize's Adam Smith:

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  18. Dec 12

    Watch the very moment Economic Sciences Laureates - and neighbours - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson received their medals and diplomas. Both laureates were awarded their prizes by Honorary Consul General Barbro Osher at a joint ceremony in Palo Alto. Congratulations!

    Prize presentation for the 2020 Prize in Economic Sciences
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  19. Dec 12

    this house has been home to not one but three Nobel Laureates? Albert Einstein, Physics 1921, Frank Wilczek, Physics 2004 and Eric Maskin, Economic Sciences 2007, whose birthday is today, all lived here and worked at the nearby Institute for Advanced Study.

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  20. Dec 12

    "A personal story... a voyage through time.” For Ahmed Zewail, awarded the 1999 Chemistry Prize, the Nobel Prize medal carried a deeper symbolic story which he traced in his banquet speech back to his early life in Egypt. Read the full speech:

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