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  1. 22 minutes ago

    "I cannot sign this," said Physics Laureate Gérard Mourou when presented with the Nobel Prize guestbook. Dating from 1952 the book contains signatures of many laureates' role models, teachers and peers. "It's a very moving moment," said Mourou when it was his turn to sign.

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  2. 18 hours ago

    Some advice from Physics Laureate Frank Wilczek to kick off 2019!

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  3. Jan 1

    1 January 1985; Physics Laureate Donna Strickland is shown aligning an optical fiber at University of Rochester. Her Nobel Prize-awarded research has led to improvements within the field of laser physics. Strickland is the third woman to be awarded the physics prize.

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  4. 31 Dec 2018

    Being a Nobel Laureate sometimes brings unwanted attention - something the wife of Literature Laureate Sinclair Lewis was keen to put a stop to.

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  5. 31 Dec 2018

    2018 saw twelve inspirational individuals added to our list of Nobel Laureates. From science to peace, each of them have made a world a better place to live in. Who do you think will be added to the list next year?

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  6. 30 Dec 2018

    Happy 70th birthday to Randy Schekman who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2013 for helping us understand vesicle traffic - a major transport system in our cells.

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  7. 30 Dec 2018

    in 1865 Rudyard Kipling, author of 'The Jungle Book', was born. Aged 41 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize, Kipling was, and still is, the youngest ever Literature Laureate. Image: Wikimedia Commons

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  8. 29 Dec 2018

    Happy birthday to Tu Youyou! Traditional Chinese medicine uses sweet wormwood to treat fever. In the 1970s, after studies of traditional herbal medicines, Tu Youyou managed to extract a substance, artemisinin, which inhibits the malaria parasite. Tu Youyou turns 88 today.

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  9. 29 Dec 2018

    Take a peek at Marie Curie's notebook from 1899-1902, containing notes from experiments on radioactive substances. The notebook is still radioactive and will be for 1,500 years. Photo: Wellcome Images.

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  10. 28 Dec 2018

    Read about how 2008 Chemistry Laureate Osamu Shimomura extracted, purified and crystallized luciferin. When he finally succeeded, he was so happy he couldn’t sleep for three days:

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  11. 28 Dec 2018

    On 28 December in 1856 the US president and Peace Prize Laureate Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia. He was awarded the prize in 1919 for founding the League of Nations, the predecessor to the United Nations.

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  12. 28 Dec 2018

    In 2005, Tawakkol Karman co-founded the group Women Journalists Without Chains in order to promote freedom of expression and democratic rights. She later became involved in the Yemeni uprising, and in 2011 shared the Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace and women's rights.

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  13. 27 Dec 2018

    Remembering Liu Xiaobo who would have been 63 today. Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize but was unable to attend the ceremony, as he was in prison. An empty chair stood in his place. He passed away while under guard and in isolation on 13 July 2017

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  14. 27 Dec 2018

    “The laser burned the grating - this is very exceptional!” Gérard Mourou's diffraction grating is used in experiments creating strong laser pulses. The item separates and combines colours just as lasers can be separated and combined.

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  15. 27 Dec 2018

    Great and inspiring teachers can make all the difference.

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  16. 26 Dec 2018

    British journalist Norman Angell, born 1872, was awarded the 1933 Nobel Peace Prize. Angell is the only person so far to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for publishing a book. Read his book 'The Great Illusion' here:

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  17. 26 Dec 2018

    "My lab has been so well-tuned it feels like a really good band." Not only is 2018 Medicine Laureate James Allison an award-winning scientist, but he's also an accomplished musician. Here, he shares the similarities between scientific research and playing music.

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  18. 25 Dec 2018

    1898, the Curies informed the l'Académie des Sciences that they had demonstrated strong grounds for having come upon an additional very active substance. They suggested to name the new element radium, from the Latin word for "ray". More information:

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  19. 25 Dec 2018

    Al Gore spoke of his hopes for the future of our planet at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Oslo. Watch the full forum:

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  20. 25 Dec 2018

    A sketch by Ernst Ruska, born in 1906, of apparatus that would eventually lead to the electron microscope - a microscope that can be used to study objects smaller than can be studied with light. Ruska was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work.

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