8 October 2019 didn't start well for Didier Queloz.
“My day was really awful. I had to fix my bike and I was late... Then it turned in another direction after this phone call."
Queloz, alongside James Peebles and Michel Mayor, had been awarded the 2019 #NobelPrize in Physics.
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"The advance of modern science is possible only because of the complete cooperation and collaboration of many scientists."
Remembering physicist and music lover Donald Glaser, born #OnThisDay in 1926, awarded the physics prize in 1960 for inventing the bubble chamber.
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How can you be awarded a Nobel Prize?
Go behind the scenes of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in our interview with medicine prize awarder Juleen Zierath.
Read more: bit.ly/3Czj2UO
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Bertha von Suttner - the first woman awarded the #NobelPeacePrize - is credited as the inspiration behind the creation of the award. She was a close friend of Alfred Nobel's and they corresponded for years on the subject of peace.
Who will be awarded the 2022 peace prize?
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2021 physics laureate Syukuro Manabe demonstrated how increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lead to increased temperatures at the surface of the Earth. His work laid the foundation for the development of current climate models.
Learn more: bit.ly/3xLd2XQ
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Before our #NobelPrizeDialogue in Singapore, students and #NobelPrize laureates came together to talk about our shared future.
Check out our student discussions on the future of education and more here: bit.ly/3qHgorT
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How would you react if you received a phone call saying you had been awarded the #NobelPrize in Chemistry? Biologist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan couldn't believe it, it took three Nobel committee members to convince him that it wasn't a prank! He was awarded the prize in 2009.
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Why are they called Nobel Prize laureates?
The word “laureate” refers to being signified by the laurel wreath. In ancient Greece, laurel wreaths were awarded to victors as a sign of honour. Put that together with the Nobel Prize and we get “Nobel Prize laureate”.
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Take a look at some of the literary masterpieces written by previous literature laureates - do you have a favourite literature laureate so far?
Stay tuned to find out which author(s) will be awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow accepted the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of . In her #NobelPeacePrize lecture she described how she sees the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which opened for signing five years ago today, as a force for good.
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Nobel Prize laureate William Golding who authored books that include 'Lord of the Flies', 'Rites of Passage' and 'Darkness Visible'.
Learn more about Golding: bit.ly/2LhJ6up
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Do you share any interests with the founder of the Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel?
Take a look at how the Nobel Prize categories became an extension and a fulfillment of Alfred Nobel’s lifetime interests.
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In 1987 the supernova SN 1987A exploded emitting 10 million billion neutrinos - the most elusive particles in the universe - in a gigantic burst.
On Earth Masatoshi Koshiba born #OTD and his team detected 12 of these neutrinos in a giant detector, earning a #NobelPrize.
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Kailash Satyarthi joined young adults from across the Asia Pacific at the Nobel Prize Dialogue in Singapore last week where he discussed the importance of protecting children from exploitation and their right to an education.
Watch the dialogue: bit.ly/3qH8CP2
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Last year saw some early morning wake up calls for economic sciences laureates David Card, Guido Imbens and Joshua Angrist (pictured)! Can you spy their names in the announcement behind him?
Stay tuned - on 10 Oct we will deliver this year's economic sciences prize announcement.
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It was thought that stress was the cause of gastric ulcers. But Barry Marshall suspected they were caused by a bacterium, Helicobacter pylori. To prove his theory correct, he experimented on himself.
What discovery will be awarded this year's medicine prize?
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What impact did the discovery of X-rays have on our daily lives?
Learn more about X-rays, which were discovered by Wilhelm Röntgen on this day in 1895. He was awarded the very first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for his discovery.
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"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."
2018 peace laureate Nadia Murad is working to end sexual violence in war.
This October, find out which courageous and admirable efforts will be awarded the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Have you read 'Lord of the Flies'?
The novel, written by William Golding, was first published #OTD in 1954. Golding was awarded the 1983 #NobelPrize in Literature for his novels which illuminates "the human condition in the world of today".
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Say peace, Leymah Gbowee!
2011 peace laureate Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist, social worker and women’s rights advocate.
Read more about this remarkable laureate: nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2
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Imagine arriving to work to this standing ovation. That's exactly what happened to Benjamin List last year when he found out he had been awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Who do you think will receive this year's prize?
Video: Frank Wennmohs/ MPI für Kohlenforschung
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As a child literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe promised his mother he would win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
50 years later, he told her that he had made good on his promise. "'No,' said my mother, who has very fine sense of humour, 'You promised it would be in physics!'"
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Physics laureate George Smoot at the #NobelPrizeDialogue in Singapore where he spoke about advances in healthcare.
Young people and Nobel Prize laureates came together to consider the best path to an improved world.
Watch the dialogue here: bit.ly/3qH8CP2
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What would you do after finding out you've been awarded the #NobelPrize? As a true scientist, wrote a manuscript regarding the theory of general relativity.
Next month we'll find out who has been awarded this year's physics prize - stay tuned!
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If you had the chance to meet a #NobelPrize laureate, what would you ask?
High school student Lucas Madrigrano Azeredo met 2021 chemistry laureate David MacMillan to talk about life, football and career choices.
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Can you guess what this picture is? It's an image of vitamin C, taken with polarised light.
Vitamin C led to both the 1937 medicine and chemistry Prizes: to Albert von Szent-Györgyi who first isolated it, and Norman Haworth for determining its molecular structure.
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In 1995 Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland were awarded the #NobelPrize in Chemistry for helping us understand why the ozone layer was disappearing.
#OTD in 1987, nations signed the Montreal Protocol to help us protect it.
GIF: NASA/NASA Ozone Watch/Katy Mersmann
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"Every day, I live with the real threat of spending the rest of my life in jail just because I’m a journalist. When I go home, I have no idea what the future holds, but it’s worth the risk."
- 2021 peace laureate Maria Ressa () in her #NobelPrize lecture.
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Physics laureate George Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize for developing the CCD sensor, without which we would not have digital cameras today.
But did you know that Smith's dissertation paper was just three pages long? You can find the paper here: bit.ly/3zmCfr1
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#Didyouknow Andre Geim is the only Nobel Prize laureate to have received an Ig Nobel Prize - which honours achievements that first make people laugh, then think. He was awarded his #NobelPrize for creating graphene and his Ig Nobel for using magnets to levitate a frog!
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"Have dreams and pursue them." Nobel Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi's advice for young women.
Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to secure democracy and human rights, especially for women and children.
What dream will this year's peace laureate(s) have?
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After finding out that he had received the 2016 #NobelPrize in Physics Duncan Haldane did what he always does on Tuesday mornings. He went to teach his class on electromagnetism - and was greeted by cheers and applause.
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"What difference does a revolution make when you have experiments to do in the laboratory!"
Ivan Pavlov's research into the physiology of digestion deepened how we understand the ways the body extracts nourishment and energy from food.
Discover more: bit.ly/2Ddef2k
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#OTD in 2015, the universe’s gravitational waves, predicted by Albert Einstein a century before, were observed for the first time by .
The observation led to a new way to study our universe and the 2017 #NobelPrize in Physics for Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne.
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How can we make a better future?
From education to climate change, health and economic wellbeing to digital technology our #NobelPrizeDialogue in Singapore explored how to chart the future we want.
Watch the event and tell us what future you want: youtu.be/5SaeElQXus8
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Imagine being told by your colleagues and students that you have been awarded the medicine prize. That is what happened to Barbara McClintock in 1988 as McClintock didn't own a telephone.
Stay tuned to find out who the Nobel committee will be calling on 3 October this year.
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"Poverty in the world is an artificial creation. It doesn’t belong to human civilization, and we can change that."
Muhammad Yunus () was awarded the 2006 #NobelPeacePrize for his efforts to fight poverty. In October we will find out who the next peace laureate is.
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"We have to learn to walk together into the future with our children."
2014 peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi is one of the speakers at our #NobelPrizeDialogue in Singapore.
Watch the dialogue: youtu.be/5SaeElQXus8
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Truth always prevails, hope always prevails, peace always prevails. We have to learn to walk together into the future with our children. Whenever there is a crisis, the world emerges stronger. My address at @NobelPrize Dialogue in Singapore today.
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Do you know how many Nobel Prizes are connected to the discovery of DNA? Make a guess!
Learn about some of the awarded contributions that have been made since the discovery of DNA.
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