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Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2019: Experimental Research, Development Economics and Poverty Reduction

This year’s Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded jointly to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019: How Batteries Electrified Our World

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 was awarded to John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries”. Therewith, the three laureates laid the foundation of our electrified, mobile, modern world.

Active Learning with Carl E. Wieman: Don’t Lecture Me!

Nobel Laureate Carl Wiemann and several education practitioners and experts discussed the educational method of active learning during the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2019: Hints to Some of Our Deepest Cosmological Questions

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics recognises three researchers who expanded humanity’s horizons on the grandest of scales, contributing to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and our place within it.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019: What Cells Do When the Air Gets Thin

This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology honours discoveries concerning how cells sense and respond to low oxygen levels. The findings illuminate a fundamental aspect of normal cellular metabolism and have important implications for understanding – and perhaps treating – cancer.