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Nobel Prize-awarded work on microwaves revolutionised our ways of communicating and helped us understand the origins of the universe.
A help in solving crimes and a revealer of history’s secrets: radiocarbon dating is one of the keys that unlocks our world.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1976
Listen to Saul Bellow talk about his memories from 1920’s Chicago, the city where he grew up and used as a backdrop for his stories.
Nobel Prize in Physics 1976
The discovery of a new heavy particle, J/psi, opened a new field of research.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1976
This work improved our understanding of how atoms bind together within molecules.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1976
Their work defined completely new principles for the behaviour of infectious diseases.
Curious to know what was served at the 1976 Nobel Prize banquet dinner? Browse the banquet menu archive.
Nobel Peace Prize 1976
A deadly tragedy motivated Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan to found a movement to put an end to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Prize in economic sciences 1976
An influential economist of the second half of the 20th century, Milton Friedman became one of the leaders of the Chicago school of economics.
How X-rays and crystals revealed the true nature of things
Read the story behind the 100-year-old discovery that continues to render Nobel Prizes.
Nobel Prize in Literature 2015
Svetlana Alexievich’s new book tells the stories of young people who took to the streets in Belarus in 2020, protesting the election that was widely regarded as rigged.
Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
Han Kang on imagination, how writing has changed her and what books mean to her.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1993
Read and listen to Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize lecture.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1996
Read
Possibilities
and more poetry by Wisława Szymborska.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1945
Gabriela Mistral crossed over from teaching to politics and became one of Chile’s most celebrated poets.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930
Finding the key to safe blood transfusions
Today, we take it for granted that people have different blood types. But not so long ago, it was believed that all blood was the same – a fatal misunderstanding.
Close up of A positive blood in bag.
Credit: ER Productions Limited/Getty Images
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Nobel Peace Prize 1917, 1944 and 1963
Makur Diet lost his leg to a bullet in war-damaged South Sudan.
UNHCR, Nobel Peace Prize 1954 and 1981
Kamal Hussein is a beacon of hope for Rohingya families torn apart by violence and ethnic cleansing.
ICBL, Nobel Peace Prize 1997
For the all-female team of Yazidi deminers, one wrong move means certain death.
IPCC, Nobel Peace Prize 2007
Follow one team’s extraordinary mission to help understand how climate change is affecting our planet.
Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace Prize 1993
This orchestra uses the power of music to help South Africa overcome decades of violence and division.
High hopes for quantum technologies
Applications of quantum technologies are anticipated to improve our daily lives and contribute to solving global challenges.
Explore the contributions, careers and lives of 19 women who have been awarded Nobel Prizes for their scientific achievements.
Photo: Johns Hopkins Medicine
The unseen enemy: navigating antimicrobial resistance
The hunt is on to find new antibiotics with the potential to save millions of lives.
Follow Ishrat Rahim who vaccinates children against polio in Pakistan.
Over the years, Nobel Prize-awarded advances in medicine show that remarkable progress is possible.
Read about how scientists found ways to use the immune system to treat cancer.
Despite the Nobel Prize-awarded discovery of insulin and advances in diabetes treatment, amputations continue to devastate communities around the world. Follow Dr Foluso Fakorede, who fights to save lives in the Mississippi Delta.
The discovery of insulin and subsequent breakthroughs by Nobel Prize laureates led to advancements in how we treat the chronic disease.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin used X-ray crystallography to “see” the molecules of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin.
Nobel Prize-awarded work
Imagine life without these discoveries
From the glow of blue LEDs to the ‘miracle’ of IVF. These six discoveries not only improve our daily lives, but save them and help create new ones.
The 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.
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.
“Asking is hard. Once you realise there’s an interesting question to develop answers to, it is even harder.” Listen to the 2024 economic sciences laureate.
Family matters
Meet the families with Nobel Prizes.
Read the story
Aage Bohr and Niels Bohr on the occasion of the defence of Aage's doctoral thesis, 1954.
Photo: Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen.
Nobel Prize-awarded breakthroughs
A century of life-changing discoveries
Electronic devices help us in our daily lives, while innovations in medicine make life more manageable for people with chronic conditions.
An icon in the world of modern science
Marie Curie is the only individual to receive the Nobel Prize in two different science categories.
Read her story
11 prizes that help us understand and value our Earth
From understanding climate change to using AI to better protect our planet.
An unrelenting opposition to Earth’s most dangerous weapons
A number of Nobel Prize laureates have worked to highlight the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons and to strengthen international efforts to ban testing.
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