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CAROLYN BERTOZZI
https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/women-who-changed-science/carolyn-bertozzi/
Published: June 3, 2026 08:45
Experiencing ridicule and exclusion as a student in the 1980s did not stop Carolyn Bertozzi from pursuing her passion – in fact, it spurred her to build an inclusive culture in her own lab. Bertozzi’s Nobel Prize-awarded discovery of bioorthogonal…
Why we should thank Einstein for our smartphone cameras
https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/photoelectric-effect/
Published: May 13, 2026 10:37
Learn more about how the photoelectric effect has shaped technologies such as burglar alarms, solar panels and the camera in your smartphone. The engineer picked up a camera flash gun, aimed it at the tiny circuit board computer on the desk, and fired. For…
MARY BRUNKOW
https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/women-who-changed-science/mary-brunkow/
Published: May 8, 2026 08:41
A chance discovery made around 80 years ago paved the way for Mary Brunkow’s painstaking work, which contributed to redefining how the immune system functions. From investigating an obscure gene dismissed as ‘junk’ by other scientists, to choosing to opt…
Exploring life’s smallest details
https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/cells-nerves-genes/
Published: May 8, 2026 07:53
Learn more about some of the Nobel Prize-awarded discoveries in the fields of cells, nerves and genes. Cells, nerves and genes are fundamental to all living organisms. They control life’s processes and development. Often, this is where illness and…
John Martinis: “It’s a lifelong learning process”
https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/students-meet-nobel-prize-laureate/john-martinis-its-a-lifelong-learning-process/
Published: April 14, 2026 14:11
Eleonora Svanberg, a PhD student in mathematics at the University of Oxford, sits down with 2025 physics laureate John Martinis for a conversation about curiosity, discovery and the future of quantum technology. Martinis reflects on the choices that led…
Daron Acemoglu: “Always be open to talking to people who are ideologically opposite to you”
https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/students-meet-nobel-prize-laureate/daron-acemoglu-always-be-open-to-talking-to-people-who-are-ideologically-opposite-to-you/
Published: April 14, 2026 10:53
Daron Acemoglu, economic sciences laureate 2024, was joined by nine students from all over the world for a conversation on the topic of being a scientist. Acemoglu gave his best advice for finding great collaborators, spoke about the future of AI and…
Revealing secrets on a tiny scale
https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/microscopes/
Published: April 7, 2026 14:51
The small matter of what everything is made from has long fascinated humankind. Microscopes have had a huge impact on our understanding of everything from the composition of materials to the building blocks of life. The work of a number of Nobel Prize…
How microwaves let us tune into one another – and the universe
https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/microwaves/
Published: March 30, 2026 11:37
Learn more about how microwaves revolutionised our ways of communicating and helped us understand the origins of the universe. The Pope is watching. This had better work. Such thoughts perhaps ran through the mind of Guglielmo Marconi in 1932 as he set up…
The clock that starts ticking when something dies
https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/carbon-14/
Published: March 2, 2026 12:38
A help in solving crimes and a revealer of history’s secrets: radiocarbon dating is one of the keys that unlocks our world. There would be heaps of the stuff in sewage. Willard Libby was sure of it. It was the mid-1940s, and the US chemist’s goal was to…
Five documentaries inspired by the Nobel Peace Prize
https://www.nobelprize.org/stories/peace-prize-documentaries/
Published: February 12, 2026 13:14
The Nobel Prize, National Geographic Documentary Films and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel have collaborated on a 5-part short documentary series, celebrating the ongoing impact and influence of Nobel Peace Prize laureates around the…