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Nobel prizes

April 2024

  • Prof Peter Higgs in his old office at Edinburgh University with a description of the Higgs model, written by him on the blackboard.

    Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94

    Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in Edinburgh

January 2024

  • Marie Curie c1913. She won two Nobel prizes.

    ‘Unthinkable’: Marie Curie’s Paris lab saved from the bulldozers … for now

    Last-minute reprieve keeps Nobel scientist’s legacy standing. Now campaigners want the building to be listed

November 2023

  • Frances Arnold won the Nobel and technology prizes for her work on directed evolution of enzymes.

    ‘We need more women,’ says only female winner of Millennium Technology prize

    Women form just 16% of the nominees for next year’s award, but Nobel laureate Prof Frances Arnold says gender balance will come through girls working in science from a young age

October 2023

  • Martin Rees

    Some Nobel winners are great intellects, others are lucky. There’s more to science than these prizes

    Martin Rees
  • Paul Nurse

    Does winning a Nobel prize make you less productive? Do you get ‘Nobelitis’? Here’s what it did to me

    Paul Nurse
  • A plaque showing Alfred Nobel.

    Science Weekly
    All the news and science from the Nobel Prizes – podcast

  • The winners of the 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry are announced at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm

    Scientists share Nobel prize in chemistry for quantum dots discovery

  • Nobel prize in physics awarded to three scientists for work on electrons

  • Scientists whose work enabled mRNA Covid vaccine win medicine Nobel prize

September 2023

  • View from a balcony of people on stage and seated in an auditorium

    Nobel Foundation reverses decision to invite Russian ambassador to awards

    Foundation backtracks on earlier announcement that representatives from Russia, Belarus and Iran would be invited

July 2023

  • FILE PHOTO: John B. Goodenough, 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, attends a news conference in London<br>FILE PHOTO: John B. Goodenough, 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, speaks during a news conference at the Royal Society in London, Britain October 9, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo

    John Goodenough obituary

    American materials chemist who won the Nobel prize for his role in the invention of the rechargeable lithium battery

June 2023

  • FILE PHOTO: John B. Goodenough, 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, attends a news conference in London<br>FILE PHOTO: John B. Goodenough, 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, gestures during a news conference at the Royal Society in London, Britain October 9, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo

    Co-creator of lithium-ion battery and the oldest Nobel winner dies at age 100

  • Giorgio Parisi at the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, October 2021

    Nobel prize winner Giorgio Parisi: ‘There’s a lack of trust in science – we need to show how it’s done’

March 2023

  • Paul Berg, geneticist

    Paul Berg obituary

    Nobel prizewinning biochemist who was a pioneer in the field of genetic engineering

December 2022

  • Citizen Nobel … Jacques Dubochet monitors the health of glaciers.

    Citizen Nobel review – chemistry prize winner becomes charismatic climate crusader

    This affecting documentary follows Swiss biochemist Jacques Dubochet as he turns the sudden fame provided by his Nobel win into a force for change

October 2022

  • Ben Bernanke

    Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke wins Nobel economics prize 2022

    Head of US central bank from 2006-14 awarded prize alongside economists Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig
  • Swedish scientist Svante Pääbo with a replica of a Neanderthal skeleton at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

    Behind this Nobel prize is a very human story: there’s a bit of Neanderthal in all of us

    Rebecca Wragg Sykes
    Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are, says archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes
    • Three ‘click chemistry’ scientists share Nobel prize

    • Three scientists share physics Nobel prize for quantum mechanics work

    • Swedish geneticist wins Nobel prize for Neanderthal research

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