”My mother told me, 'Kati, you know, next week they are announcing who will be awarded to Nobel Prize. I will listen, you might get it, they might say your name!' I told her, 'Don't worry'.”

Katalin Karikó speaks about her journey to the #NobelPrize : nobelprize.org/prizes/medicin…

Ales Bialiatski has worked to promote democracy and human rights in Belarus since the 1980s. However government authorities sought to silence him. Last year he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was unable to accept his Nobel Prize and is still imprisoned today.

With enthusiasm and hard work, Donna Strickland found a way to create high-intensity laser pulses. This technique, chirped pulse amplification (CPA), was described in Strickland’s very first scientific paper and led to her 2018 Nobel Prize.

Read more: bit.ly/2VzglgB

Did you know that John Cockcroft, along with Ernest Walton, was the first to split the lithium atom with a proton beam?

The two shared the 1951 #NobelPrize in Physics for their pioneering work on transmutation of atomic nuclei. Read more on Cockcroft: bit.ly/3dElOvr

'I loved math when I was growing up. Nobody in my family was a scientist, but my father loved doing puzzles. So we did a lot of puzzles.'

In our interview with 2020 chemistry laureate Jennifer Doudna, she tells us about how her scientific journey started: bit.ly/2M82Chu

Take a look at Svante Arrhenius' doctoral thesis, published on this day, 26 May in 1884.

The thesis was the main basis for awarding him the 1903 #NobelPrize in Chemistry. Read more about Arrhenius: bit.ly/2QHCts4

Have you heard of the 'Zeeman effect'? Pieter Zeeman was awarded the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research into the influence of magnetism upon radiation phenomena.

Photo: Albert Einstein and Paul Ehrenfest visiting Zeeman at his laboratory in Amsterdam, 1920s.

What's your favourite book?

Here six master storytellers reflect on the power of books - celebrating the written world of human experience and imagination.

”This country is on fire - they are celebrating from the President even down to the children in the rural areas.”

Wangari Maathai was in Nairobi, Kenya, when she heard the news of her #NobelPeacePrize in 2004. She was the first African woman to be awarded the peace prize.

“If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.”
- Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

Mahfouz began writing when he was seventeen and was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature when he was 76.

Read more: bit.ly/3mLugDm

'If someone had ever told me that I had the slightest chance of winning the Nobel Prize, I would have to think that I’d have about the same odds as standing on the moon.'

- Bob Dylan, awarded the 2016 #NobelPrize in Literature.

“Research consists to a large extent of failures; probably more failures than successful steps forward. Of course, in the first moment a failure never feels nice, but in the second moment, we do realise that there's a lot to learn.”

- physics laureate Ferenc Krausz.

'I was affected in this way for a very long period of time, like 25 years, so it was quite a portion of a life's history.'

On #WorldSchizophreniaDay we remember mathematical genius John Nash, who was awarded the 1994 prize in economic sciences. Read more: bit.ly/35NWJvf

Say cheese! Here Fraser Stoddart is celebrating his 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his grandchildren and friends' children.

Stoddart was awarded the prize for designing tiny molecular machines. Discover more: bit.ly/2PWdkF2

Twenty-year-old John Nash arrived at Princeton University as a graduate student with a letter of recommendation that simply read: 'He is a mathematical genius.'

He was awarded the 1994 prize in economic sciences. Learn more: bit.ly/3fpYROQ

'If you're not failing, you're not pushing boundaries.'

Hear medicine laureate Elizabeth Blackburn speak about the valuable lessons we can learn from failure.

#NobelPrize

Get to know medicine laureate Katalin Karikó in the first podcast episode of our new season!

Karikó tells us about her difficult journey to the #NobelPrize and how she motivated herself to never give up: shows.acast.com/nobelprizeconv…

Akira Yoshino developed the first commercially viable lithium-ion battery. For this, Yoshino shared the 2019 chemistry prize with Stanley Whittingham and John Goodenough.

Discover other ways our laureates are making the world more sustainable: bit.ly/36apUYe

Remembering peace activist Betty Williams who shared the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for founding a peace organisation to bring an end to the bitter conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

Learn more: bit.ly/2QrU9EQ

'Hindsight is always 20/20 in terms of where our interest in what we do originates. But I think I can identify that point in the moon landing. I was four, but I think that was what got me thinking about space and the enormity of space.'

- 2020 physics laureate Andrea Ghez