The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize Twitter profile

Last Seen Profiles

@Clamman19

@drjimjonesceo

@etztl

@reigenstrashcan

@todd_marx

@murphydubs

@InfographicTony

@HerbertSovula

@riadaht

@emyuko

@helical_poke

@APVillarrealCF

@babyysuji

@marceloauguspa

@slope_finance

@jokwinn

@PabloGHalpern

@therationalroot

@KenyaExpoGhana

@rpbyaru

@SuperLuckyDi

@erbyjr4

@syberstock

@dollisim

@NizarJanBa39831

@GehanaVasisth

@EliLipshitz

@nadine_mckillop

@YakiLopez

@LouieDi13

@dank_node

@TMAInfo

@LPMmag

@Hazloe3

@StacheAutonomy

@humberliter

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

4K

28K

81K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPeacePrize to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. #NobelPrize

3K

24K

74K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”

729

25K

49K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. #NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

1K

19K

42K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”

535

14K

41K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”

509

13K

37K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

6 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. #NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

706

20K

35K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Programme (WFP). #NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

2K

13K

33K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.”

439

16K

33K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger.

408

12K

32K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

5 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali. #NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

1K

14K

31K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2021 #NobelPrize in Physics to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.”

389

14K

31K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2022 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.”

437

12K

30K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”

347

10K

29K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”

367

10K

28K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

5 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” #NobelPrize

611

14K

27K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.” #NobelPrize

420

10K

27K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

A round of applause! Students and colleagues at @lunduniversity came together to recognise newly named physics laureate Anne L’Huillier. Drop a 👏 in the comments to congratulate our new Nobel Prize laureate. Video credit: Nina Ransmyr, Lund University

928

4K

27K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.” Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó ( @kkariko ) told us how much it means to be awarded the Nobel Prize after a scientific career that has been full of challenges. Ten years ago, Karikó was still doing all her…

378

8K

26K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

5 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2019 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”

303

15K

25K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

Dedicated teacher alert! Not even the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physics could tear Anne L'Huillier from her students. Our new physics laureate was busy teaching a class. During a scheduled break, she heard the news. After the phone call, L'Huillier went right back to her students.

181

4K

24K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

2023 #NobelPeacePrize laureate Narges Mohammadi’s brave struggle has come with tremendous personal costs. The Iranian regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. Mohammadi is still in prison.

479

7K

24K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

Historically, much of the gender gap in earnings could be explained by differences in education and occupational choices. However, this year’s economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin has shown that the bulk of this earnings difference is now between men and women in the same…

353

9K

24K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.

330

13K

24K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

6 years

BREAKING NEWS The 2018 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation.”

272

16K

22K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

Congratulations to one of our new medicine laureates: Katalin Karikó ( @kkariko )! 🎉 An interview with her will be coming soon.

378

3K

22K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

Marie Curie died of aplastic anaemia on 4 July 1934, a result of years of exposure to radiation through her work. Even today her laboratory notebook from 1899-1902, is radioactive and will be for 1,500 years.

177

6K

22K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 years

BREAKING NEWS The 2017 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the English author Kazuo Ishiguro

393

18K

21K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”

295

10K

21K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPeacePrize to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. #NobelPrize

2K

8K

20K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

371

8K

21K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

This year’s economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin showed that female participation in the labour market did not have an upward trend over a 200 year period, but instead forms a U-shaped curve. The participation of married women decreased with the transition from an agrarian…

212

7K

20K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

6 years

Happy International Women's Day! We're celebrating the women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award. #IWD2018

293

16K

19K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”

409

9K

19K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

8 years

BREAKING 2016 #NobelPrize in Literature to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”

630

21K

17K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

5 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2019 #NobelPrize in Physics has been awarded with one half to James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”

220

10K

17K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

5 years

The 2019 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.”

300

11K

17K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” #NobelPrize

236

8K

16K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”

193

7K

14K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

5 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke. #NobelPrize

362

9K

14K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

“My wish is that this will provide a positive message to the young girls who would like to follow the path of science, and to show them that women in science can also have an impact through the research that they are performing.” - 2020 Chemistry Laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier.

68

6K

14K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

Marie Curie died of aplastic anaemia on 4 July 1934, a result of years of exposure to radiation through her work. Even today her laboratory notebook from 1899-1902, is radioactive and will be for 1,500 years. #NobelPrize

103

5K

13K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

Say hello to 2020 Physics Laureate Andrea Ghez! She sent us this selfie after being woken up at 2am this morning with some exciting news. Congratulations to our newest #NobelPrize laureate.

141

2K

13K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

Marie Curie died of aplastic anaemia on 4 July 1934, a result of years of exposure to radiation through her work. Even today her laboratory notebook from 1899-1902, is radioactive and will be for 1,500 years.

108

3K

13K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

6 years

“We need to celebrate women physicists because they’re out there… I’m honoured to be one of those women," says Donna Strickland. She becomes the third woman to receive the #NobelPrize in Physics, joining Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963) and Marie Curie (1903). Congratulations!

127

7K

12K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded with one half to David Card and the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens. #NobelPrize

194

6K

12K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

6 years

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the #NobelPrize in Physics 2018 “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland.

176

9K

12K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

Say good morning to our new medicine laureate Svante Pääbo! Pääbo received the news while enjoying a cup of coffee. After the shock wore off, one of the first things he wondered was if he could share the news with his wife, Linda. Photo: Linda Vigilant

224

2K

12K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

9 months

"Jana Gana Mana" is the national anthem of India, originally composed in Bengali by poet Rabindranath Tagore, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Pictured: An English translation of Jana Gana Mana by Tagore

107

3K

12K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

"As a child, I promised my mother I would win the Nobel Prize in Physics. 50 years later, I said to my mother, 'See, I have kept my promise. I won the Nobel Prize.' 'No,' said my mother, 'You promised it would be in physics!'" - Kenzaburo Oe, awarded the 1994 Literature Prize

130

3K

11K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

Happy International Women's Day! We're celebrating the women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award. Who are the women that inspire you the most? #IWD2020

172

6K

11K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

“I hope I can inspire other young women into the field. It’s a field that has so many pleasures, and if you are passionate about the science, there’s so much that can be done.” - Andrea Ghez speaking at today’s press conference where her #NobelPrize in Physics was announced.

104

4K

11K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

Marie Curie died of aplastic anaemia on 4 July 1934, a result of years of exposure to radiation through her work. Even today her laboratory notebook from 1899-1902, is radioactive and will be for 1,500 years.

77

3K

11K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

5 years

Marie Curie died of leukemia on 4 July 1934, a result of years of exposure to radiation through her work. Even today her laboratory notebook from 1899-1902, is radioactive and will be for 1,500 years. #NobelPrize

87

5K

11K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

"As a child, I promised my mother I would win the Nobel Prize in Physics. 50 years later, I said to my mother, 'See, I have kept my promise. I won the Nobel Prize.' 'No,' said my mother, 'You promised it would be in physics!'" Happy birthday to Literature Laureate Kenzaburo Oe!

117

2K

11K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

Just in! First selfie from our 2022 #NobelPrize laureate in chemistry @CarolynBertozzi . Congratulations!

120

976

11K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 years

BREAKING NEWS The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) @nuclearban #NobelPrize

323

8K

10K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

5 years

We're celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Let's look back on the life of Marie Skłodowska Curie - the first woman awarded a #NobelPrize ; first person awarded the prize twice; and only person to receive it in two scientific fields. #WomenInScience

82

5K

10K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

Happy birthday to Marie Skłodowska Curie, who was born on this day in 1867! Marie Curie was the first person to be awarded the Nobel Prize twice, and is still the only individual to receive the prize in two different science categories. Find out more:

88

2K

10K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

2023 #NobelPeacePrize laureate Narges Mohammadi has dedicated her life to fighting against the oppression of women in Iran and promoting human rights and freedom for all. For this the Iranian regime sentenced her to 31 years in prison. She has been in prison since 2015.

248

3K

10K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.” #NobelPrize

148

5K

10K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

8 years

BREAKING NEWS The 2016 #NobelPrize #Peace is awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos

827

11K

10K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig “for research on banks and financial crises.” #NobelPrize

543

4K

10K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

1 year

The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie. Learn more:

59

2K

10K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

2023 physics laureate Pierre Agostini succeeded in producing and investigating a series of consecutive light pulses, in which each pulse lasted just 250 attoseconds. At the same time, his 2023 co-laureate Ferenc Krausz was working with another type of experiment, one that made it…

77

3K

10K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

#NobelPrize laureate Maria Ressa uses freedom of expression to expose abuse of power, use of violence and growing authoritarianism in her native country, the Philippines. In 2012, she co-founded Rappler, @rapplerdotcom , a digital media company for investigative journalism.

133

3K

9K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

For the first time in history, the Hepatitis C virus can now be cured. The 2020 Medicine Laureates’ discoveries revealed the cause of the remaining cases of chronic hepatitis and made possible blood tests and new medicines that have saved millions of lives. #NobelPrize

96

4K

9K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

"Every day, I live with the real threat of spending the rest of my life in jail just because I’m a journalist. When I go home, I have no idea what the future holds, but it’s worth the risk." - 2021 peace laureate Maria Ressa ( @mariaressa ) in her #NobelPrize lecture.

260

3K

9K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 years

BREAKING NEWS The 2017 #NobelPrize in Physics is awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne @LIGO .

157

8K

9K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 months

Happy International Women's Day! We're celebrating women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award. Who are the women who inspire you the most? #IWD2024

161

4K

9K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

We're celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Let's look back on the life of Marie Skłodowska Curie: a Nobel Laureate who dedicated her life to science and became one of the world's greatest scientists. #WomenInScience #NobelPrize

112

4K

9K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

6 years

BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the #NobelPrize in Chemistry 2018 with one half to Frances H. Arnold and the other half jointly to George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter.

142

7K

8K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

Family photo! 📷 Our new economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin woke up the whole family after getting a very exciting phone call from Stockholm. Here she is with her husband, Lawrence, and dog, Pika. Send your congratulations to our latest laureate.

151

688

9K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

5 years

New laureate Michel Mayor was on a lecture tour in Spain when he heard the news about his #NobelPrize in Physics. Here Mayor is in the cafeteria of San Sebastian airport, looking at all the messages flooding in!

80

2K

8K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

6 years

Just in! Nobel Laureate Tasuku Honjo, surrounded by his team at Kyoto University, immediately after hearing the news that he had been awarded the 2018 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine.

149

3K

8K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

1 year

Happy International Women's Day! We're celebrating women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award. Who are the women who inspire you the most? #IWD2023

239

4K

8K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

The 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry rewards the discovery and development of quantum dots, nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties. These particles have unique properties and now spread their light from television screens and LED lamps. They catalyse…

53

2K

8K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

6 months

Remembering the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie. Curie was born #OnThisDay in 1867.

61

2K

8K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

Watch Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer receive their medals and diplomas at the #NobelPrize award ceremony today. Congratulations! They were awarded the 2019 Prize in Economic Sciences “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”

158

3K

8K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

1 year

As a 14-year-old boy, Abdus Salam, gained the highest marks ever recorded for the Matriculation Examination at University of the Punjab. In 1979, he shared the #NobelPrize in Physics for contributions to the electroweak unification theory. Learn more:

98

2K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

Happy birthday to Marie Skłodowska Curie, who was born on this day in 1867! Marie Curie was the first person to be awarded the Nobel Prize twice, and is still the only individual to receive the prize in two different science categories. Find out more:

56

2K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

Through his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo – this year’s #NobelPrize laureate in physiology or medicine – accomplished something seemingly impossible: sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal, an extinct relative of present-day humans.

56

2K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 years

BREAKING NEWS The 2017 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young.

130

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

Andrea Ghez, awarded the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics, was born in 1965 in the City of New York, USA. She is a professor at @UCLA , Los Angeles, USA.

84

2K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

5 years

The first woman to be awarded a #NobelPrize , the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories - Marie Skłodowska Curie.

44

2K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: The call from Oslo. Hear Maria Ressa’s reaction when she hears the news from Olav Njølstad, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, on being awarded the 2021 #NobelPeacePrize just before the public announcement. "I'm speechless!" #NobelPrize @mariaressa

181

2K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

5 years

Happy International Women's Day! We're celebrating the women who have changed the world. Here's all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award. #IWD2019

82

5K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

1 year

Wangari Maathai was the first female professor in Kenya and the first African woman to be awarded the #NobelPeacePrize . Born on this day, she was a committed environmentalist and founded the Green Belt Movement, which led to the planting of millions of trees.

55

2K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

4 years

"I feel more passionate about the teaching side of my job than I have ever been, because it’s so important to convince the younger generation that their ability to question and think is crucial to the future of the world." 2020 Physics Laureate Andrea Ghez on being a professor.

43

2K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

The discoveries by Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman – awarded the 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine – were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during the pandemic that began in early 2020. Through their groundbreaking findings, this year’s…

195

2K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 months

"I had a teacher that didn't like me and I didn't like him. At the end of the year he decided to fail me. The ironic thing is that the topic was chemistry. I have the distinction of being the only chemistry laureate who failed the topic in high school!" - Tomas Lindahl

107

1K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 months

The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie. Learn more:

78

2K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

7 months

Electrons’ movements in atoms and molecules are so rapid that they are measured in attoseconds. An attosecond is to one second as one second is to the age of the universe. #NobelPrize

50

2K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

Just in! New medicine laureate Ardem Patapoutian and his son Luca, watching the #NobelPrize press conference shortly after finding out the happy news. Stay tuned for our interview with Patapoutian coming up soon! Photographer: Nancy Hong

116

945

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for." Remembering Mahatma Gandhi on the anniversary of his 153rd birthday. Gandhi was nominated for the #NobelPeacePrize on 12 occasions. Read more:

223

1K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

1 year

Happy birthday to Marie Skłodowska Curie, who was born on this day in 1867! Marie Curie was the first person to be awarded the Nobel Prize twice, and is still the only individual to receive the prize in two different science categories. Find out more:

71

2K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

1 year

Remembering the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie. Curie was born #OnThisDay in 1867.

45

2K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

#OnThisDay in 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays. The first X-ray image he took was of his wife Bertha's hand. The discovery of X-rays earned Röntgen the very first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901. Read more:

49

1K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

2 years

#OnThisDay in 1903, Marie Skłodowska Curie defended her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris – becoming the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree in physics.

45

1K

7K

The Nobel Prize

@NobelPrize

3 years

"As a child, I promised my mother I would win the Nobel Prize in Physics. 50 years later, I said to my mother, 'See, I have kept my promise. I won the Nobel Prize.' 'No,' said my mother, 'You promised it would be in physics!'" - Kenzaburo Oe, awarded the 1994 literature prize

73

1K

6K