Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of a USA in which all citizens would be assessed in terms of their personal characteristics, not their skin colour. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1964 for his non-violent struggle for civil rights in the United States.
Read Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Prize lecture.
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Video footage of Martin Luther King Jr. with friends and family arriving for the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony and events.
Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons.
The first nomination arrived to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in January 1963. Not until 2014, the nominators were revealed.
Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
“Science is done by feeling good and getting ideas”
Students from all over the world, and from different disciplines within science, joined a conversation with physics laureate Didier Queloz.
In the series Students meet Nobel Prize laureates, laureates tell about their lives as scientists. Watch all episodes here
The inventions behind AI
How can computers mimic functions such as memory and learning? The inventions behind the 2024 physics prize have formed the basis of what we call artificial intelligence.
1 (of 12) Artist: Lars Eje Larsson Calligrapher: Marie A. Györi Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB
2 (of 12) Artist: Lars Eje Larsson Calligrapher: Marie A. Györi Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB
3 (of 12) Artist: Catharina Bauer Calligrapher: Marianne Pettersson Soold Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB
4 (of 12) Artist: Catharina Bauer Calligrapher: Marianne Pettersson Soold Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB
5 (of 12) Artist: Catharina Bauer Calligrapher: Marianne Pettersson Soold Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB
6 (of 12) Calligrapher: Susan Duvnäs Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB
7 (of 12) Calligrapher: Susan Duvnäs Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB
8 (of 12) Calligrapher: Susan Duvnäs Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB
9 (of 12) Artist: Marie Buskov Calligrapher: Christopher Haanes Bookbinder: Kristine Bekkevold / Merkur Grafisk AS Photo reproduction: Thomas Widerberg Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 2024
10 (of 12) Artist: Elisabeth Biström Calligrapher: Marie A. Györi Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB
11 (of 12) Artist: Elisabeth Biström Calligrapher: Marie A. Györi Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB
12 (of 12) Artist: Elisabeth Biström Calligrapher: Marie A. Györi Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB
Meet a calligrapher behind the diplomas
Marie Györi is one of the calligraphers behind the diplomas in physics, chemistry and economic sciences given out by Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien. Watch as we talk to her about the process of creating the calligraphy for such a unique piece of art.
Chemistry laureate David Baker delivered his Nobel Prize lecture followed by Demis Hassabis and John Jumper.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Anna Svanberg
Banquet dessert – how it’s done
Pastry chef Frida Bäcke used a variety of Swedish apples to create the ultimate dessert for the Nobel Prize banquet 2024. Take a look at how Frida plates the dessert to perfection.
1 (of 8) The installation Nematode, a glowing dynamic presence, is inspired by this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: STUDIO DUKTIG
2 (of 8) Giant bacteria have taken over the walls at Benny Fredrikssons torg.
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: Led by Nobel Week Lights, BioCanvas is a collaboration between 5th grade students from Husbygårdsskolan, Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Prize Museum.
3 (of 8) Nobel Week Lights 2024: ‘Leading Lights’ by Les Atelier BK is a luminous tribute to the brilliance of female pioneers. Drawing inspiration from extensive scientific and historical research, the piece is a grand celebration of their groundbreaking contributions to humanity.
Photo: Benoît Derrier. Artist: Les Atelier BK
4 (of 8) FLUX is an immersive light installation by Ksawery Komputery that visualizes the invisible data streams connecting us all.
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: Ksawery Komputery
5 (of 8) Love at First Sight explores fate, destiny and the mysterious forces that shape our lives.
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: SMASH
6 (of 8) This artwork is in conversation with Nobel Prize laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s play, The Waterfall, where themes of nature versus artifice and control versus freedom are deeply explored.
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: Studio UxU
7 (of 8) With Lotus Pods, artist David Ram invites the audience to become curious and be intertwined with a mysterious playful world.
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: David Ram
8 (of 8) Where is My Land by Runo Lagomarsino and Carla Zaccagnini consists of the phrases “NOWHERE IS MY LAND” and “ANYWHERE IS MY LAND.”
Photo: Benoît Derrier Artist: Runo Lagomarsino & Carla Zaccagnini
Discover the works of Han Kang
Curious about 2024 literature laureate Han Kang but unsure which of her books to pick up first? Here Steve Sem-Sandberg from the Swedish Academy gives his recommendations.
Books by Han Kang.
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In this interview, 2018 literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk reflects on what health means to her, how literature and mental health are connected, and what she learned from working as a psychologist.
From poetic prose that confronts historical traumas to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. From predicting proteins’ complex structures to training artificial neural networks using physics. From microRNA to new insights into how institutions affect prosperity.
A symbol for the fight to abolish nuclear weapons
The Nobel Peace Prize 2024 is awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, an organisation of survivors from the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The origami crane has become symbolic to their fight to abolish nuclear weapons.
Watch this tutorial to learn how to fold your own paper crane.
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) has become the strongest symbol of non-violence in the 20th century. It is widely held – in retrospect – that the Indian national leader should have been selected for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize. Why?
Mahatma Gandhi laughing.
Photo: Public domain.
A team of female Yazidi deminers in Iraq attempting to clear their land of mines left behind by ISIS. A team of scientists on an extraordinary mission in Mozambique to help better our understanding of climate change. A man building prosthetic legs to help victims of war walk again in South Sudan … All are inspired by Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
