'We compete against problems, not against people.'

John B. Goodenough is the oldest person ever to receive a #NobelPrize . He was 97.

Watch our interview with him. We talked to the extraordinary chemistry laureate about life, science and love: bit.ly/3P9EGHQ

“I was very much inspired by my grandfather on my mother’s side, who was a researcher and teacher in radio,” says physics laureate Anne L’Huillier.

Read more about what stirred her passion for science: bit.ly/3TGmcA9

Who has inspired you?

The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk was declared safe and effective on this day in 1955. He used a technique by Nobel Prize laureates John Enders, Thomas Weller and Frederick Robbins to help develop his vaccine.

Do you recognise our remarkable female Nobel Prize laureates?

Take a look at some of them when they were young - they would grow up to become women who changed the world.

'Without nuclear arms, we run less risk of being drawn into the orbit of the great powers, with their hyper-dangerous weapons. And after all, there is no defense against them.”

- peace activist Alva Myrdal, awarded the 1982 #NobelPeacePrize

Learn more: nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1…

“Try and try again, I guess.”

That’s physics laureate Pierre Agostini’s advice for dealing with failure. Hear more about an unfortunate experimental disaster in our interview with him: youtu.be/ubuHprhcTpY

'We need diversity. We need different cultures. We need men and women, young and old, to work together to solve the big questions.'

May-Britt Moser will join us for our #NobelPrizeDialogue in Brazil to discuss the future of science.

Sign up here: nobelprize.org/events/nobel-p…

The first letter of the genetic code was cracked on 27 May 1961 around three o'clock in the morning by Marshall Nirenberg and his post doctoral fellow Heinrich Matthaei, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Read more: bit.ly/2J6gbJj

Physicist Peter Higgs has passed away at the age of 94. The Higgs particle, often called the God particle, is named after him.

Higgs was awarded the 2013 physics prize for the theory of how particles acquire mass.

Watch our interview with him: youtu.be/0WduRCAlIig

'We ask questions. We have the freedom to be critical. We have the freedom to explore.'

Chemistry laureate Ben Feringa on the links between democracy and science at our #NobelPrizeDialogue .

Watch more: bit.ly/3TlyVt8

Robert Burns Woodward, awarded the 1965 chemistry prize, worked on organic synthesis. He successfully synthesised many substances such as cholesterol and chlorophyll, the substance that gives leaves their green color.

More info: bit.ly/3P4N23k

'My brother was the first person I ever knew who went to uni...'

Read our interview with 2021 laureate David MacMillan, David MacMillan, shown here as a baby with his family (he is seated in his mother's lap): bit.ly/3qgiSOk

'I have always held that writers don’t really have biographies, and that the best way to find out about them is to read their books.'

- Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk. Read more: bit.ly/3cQzHcB

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“We are developing the sickle cell therapy, and future CRISPR gene therapies, to eventually treat disease from within the human body (in vivo),” says 2020 chemistry laureate Jennifer Doudna.

Learn more about genetic scissors: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…

'Peace must be made real and tangible in the daily existence of every individual in need. Peace must be sought, above all, because it is the condition for every member of the human family to live a life of dignity and security.'

- Kofi Annan in his #NobelPeacePrize lecture

On this day in 1982 Nobel Prize laureate Dan Shechtman (pictured left) discovered a crystal with 5-fold symmetry - a form that was thought to be impossible. His new crystals, called quasicrystals, caused uproar, and eventually textbooks had to be rewritten across the globe.

#Didyouknow that astronomers who observe cosmic clouds often nickname them after earthly resemblances?

'Gabriela Mistral Nebula' is one nickname for star formation region NGC 3324. The nebula is located in our Milky Way galaxy, 7,500 light-years from Earth.

'We are not making science for science. We are making science for the benefit of humanity.'

This #WorldHealthDay we celebrate Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her role in the discovery of human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus.

Makoto Kobayashi in a study room at Kyoto University - maybe even working on the research that would lead to the Nobel Prize.

Kobayashi and his co-laureate discovered the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.

'Her story is so well known to the people of South America that, passed on from country to country, it has become almost a legend.'

Do you know the story of Chilean poet and #NobelPrize laureate Gabriela Mistral?

Read it here: bit.ly/3fdYV5S