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  1. 6 minutes ago

    Take a look at Marie Skłodowska Curie's Nobel Prize diploma from 1911. Did you know that each diploma is a unique work of art where the design is decided by the prize-awarding bodies? Learn more about the diplomas:

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  2. 4 hours ago

    As a young scientist Ada Yonath took on a challenge that others considered hopeless - mapping the structure of the ribosome - and persevered until she succeeded. Her work has led to new antibiotics and a better understanding of antibiotic resistance.

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    Professor Kostya Novoselov is winner of the for his work isolating the properties of with Andre Geim at Manchester in 2004. Watch a Q&A with Kostya from 12 noon on Wednesday, 27 May:

    #LockdownLectures - Professor Kostya Novoselov
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  4. 6 hours ago

    152 years ago, Alfred Nobel obtained a U.S. patent on dynamite. The Swedish inventor and entrepreneur Alfred Nobel had acquired 355 patents worldwide when he died in 1896. In his last will, he left much of his wealth to the establishment of the Nobel Prize.

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  5. 21 hours ago

    “When women are destroyed, it’s not a women’s question. It’s a human question.” Denis Mukwege was awarded the 2018 for his work fighting against the use of sexual violence in war.

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  6. May 25

    Jack Steinberger turns 99 years old today - join us in sending him the warmest birthday wishes. Steinberger, Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz shared the in Physics in 1988 after proving the existence of the muon neutrino. Read more:

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  7. May 25

    Celebrating Africa Day and all our African Nobel Laureates, including Kofi Annan, Wangari Maathai, Nelson Mandela, Leymah Gbowee and Denis Mukwege who have all been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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  8. May 25

    The man behind the 'Zeeman effect': Pieter Zeeman, born 1865, awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena. Photo: Albert Einstein and Paul Ehrenfest visiting Zeeman at his laboratory in Amsterdam, 1920s.

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  9. May 24

    "I was affected in this way for a very long period of time, like 25 years, so it was quite a portion of a life's history." On we remember Nobel Laureate John Nash, “a mathematical genius”, awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on game theory.

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  10. May 24

    Happy birthday to Literature Laureate Bob Dylan, awarded the "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."

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  11. May 24

    "You've got to break the rules." Happy birthday to Fraser Stoddart, , here celebrating his with his grandchildren and friends' children. Stoddart was awarded the prize for designing tiny molecular machines. Read more:

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  12. May 24

    As a young woman during World War I, Irène Joliot-Curie (left) worked with her mother Marie Curie (right) to provide mobile X-ray units for wounded soldiers. Irène later shared the 1935 in Chemistry with her husband Frédéric Joliot.

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  13. May 23

    Remembering the only person who has received the in Physics twice - John Bardeen. Bardeen was born in 1908. He received the Physics Prize in 1956 for the discovery of the transistor effect and in 1972 for developing the theory of superconductivity.

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  14. May 23

    Today we remember John Nash, who died alongside his wife four years ago in a car crash. Nash, who inspired the film 'A Beautiful Mind', was awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994 for his work on game theory.

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  15. May 23

    Peace Laureate and gynaecologist Denis Mukwege treats women with injuries as a result of rape, one of them being obstetric fistula. Women with fistula are often left deeply injured, traumatised and stigmatised by their communities.

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  16. May 23

    “I honestly believe that music can bring people together. Music is a universal language.” Follow the South African MIAGI orchestra, inspired by Peace Laureate , in their aim to overcome decades of division through the power of music.

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    May 20

    Meet Makur. A prosthetic leg saved his life. Now he's saving others. Watch the full film, as part of their series:

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  18. May 22

    "I want you to remember when you win your Nobel Prize that you learned that here." 2019 Medicine Laureate Gregg Semenza remembers his biology teacher Dr Rose Nelson who inspired him and foresaw him receiving the Nobel Prize. Tell us about your remarkable teachers.

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  19. May 22

    Take a look at Svante Arrhenius's doctoral thesis, the basis for awarding him the 1903 Chemistry Prize. He researched how molecules can be split into electrically charged ions. He also proved that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to a higher average temperature.

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  20. May 22

    How would natural habitats develop without human interference? Follow a group of scientists on a mission in Mozambique to reach a forest that no human has set foot in. The science is based on research done by Nobel Prize-awarded .

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