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“All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path,' Sigrid Undset wrote in her trilogy of historical novels, 'Kristin Lavransdatter'.
Undset was awarded the 1928 #NobelPrize in Literature.
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High school isn’t fun for everyone … even #NobelPrize laureates.
“Overall, my high school days were nothing like one sees in the movies; Ferris Bueller or Tom Cruise, I was not.” - medicine laureate Harvey Alter.
Learn more about his life: nobelprize.org/prizes/medicin…
“Great discoveries are not done behind the office desk, they are done in the laboratory.”
Chemist Morten Meldal on discoveries and how to make a great discovery. What discovery do you dream of making?
#NobelPrize
'Scientists are the working-class noble community, and they are doing everything for the community.'
- Chemistry laureate David MacMillan on the role of scientists and their contributions to our society.
Watch the full dialogue: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
#NobelPrizeDialogue
This suitcase (pictured) was carried by 1966 literature laureate Nelly Sachs and her mother as they escaped from Nazi Germany in 1940. It and the clothes they wearing were the only things they brought to Sweden. The suitcase was donated to the #NobelPrize Museum last year.
A few weeks ago, medicine laureate May-Britt Moser took part in our Nobel Prize Dialogue in Rio, Brazil. She discussed her passion for science and its role in creating our shared future.
Watch the full event here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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In 1966, Charles Kao made a discovery in fiber optics: he calculated how to transmit light over long distances via optical glass fibers. Together with laser technology, his solution made telecommunication using optical fibers possible.
#WorldTelecommunicationDay
Bertha von Suttner was a pioneering peace activist. She was the first woman to be awarded the #NobelPeacePrize . In fact, she's credited as the inspiration behind the very creation of the peace prize.
Discover more: nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1…
These two laureates paved the way towards the shortest and most intense laser pulses ever created.
Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland received the 2018 #NobelPrize in Physics for their work whose uses include laser eye surgery.
#InternationalDayofLight
Before the blue LED was invented we were unable to create white LEDs.
When laureates Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura produced bright blue light beams in the early 1990s, they triggered a transformation of lighting technology.
#InternationalDayofLight
Did you know that physics laureate Frank Wilczek has made many contributions to fundamental particle physics, cosmology and the physics of materials? One contribution is discovering asymptotic freedom in the theory of strong interaction.
Learn more: bit.ly/2FQdUkC