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“It seems a little insane” Anne Carson was sweeping the kitchen floor at her home in Reykjavík, Iceland, when the phone rang and she learnt that she had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. In this conversation with the Nobel Prize just moments after the announcement, Carson shares her advice for aspiring writers and reveals that she has already started planning how to give away the prize money.
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“They're probably hoping I'll cancel the exam.” New laureate Michael Woodford was scheduled to be setting his economics students an exam today, when he was woken by a call from Stockholm at 4:30am. Woodford spoke to us about his feelings for his prize – and praised his co-laureate Robert E. Hall. Listen to his first reactions.
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“Oh my god… I have no words.” Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was announced to the world. #NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize
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“I don’t believe it until I hear it from you!” Listen to an exclusive call with our newest peace laureate Navi Pillay. Pillay couldn't believe that she had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, was happy to confirm that the news was true.
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“Our prime minister wants to call me…” 2026 chemistry laureate Kenso Soai needed to cut short our interview when he learnt that the Japanese prime minister was trying to reach him. Before then, the new laureate spoke to us about his excitement on being awarded the #NobelPrize. Soai also explained how it feels to have researchers all over the world studying his famous Soai reaction – one of the most spectacular chemical experiments ever conducted.
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“My parents could barely read or write. It’s been quite a journey, science allows you to do it.” New laureate Omar Yaghi was in the middle of changing flights when we reached him, just after he heard that he had been awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry. In this interview we speak about his early life as a refugee in Jordan and the overwhelming draw of the beauty of chemistry: “I set out to build beautiful things and solve intellectual problems.” Listen now:
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"Being a lawyer and a judge, I still want to verify this information." Navi Pillay – newly awarded peace laureate – didn't yet believe she had actually been awarded a Nobel Prize, standing in the courtroom where the Nuremberg trials took place. She told the room, "I think it's very appropriate that I'm with friends and colleagues, all of whom support human rights." Join us in congratulating our 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate!
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"I was not yet asleep being a night owl. And now I don't think I'll be able to sleep for quite a while!" Today psychiatrist and scientist Karl Deisseroth learned he had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. We found out his first reaction to the news.
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Watch 2019 economic sciences laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo talk about the importance of experiencing life in developing countries – not only the challenges, but also the beauty. Their innovative research, based on field experiments, has developed new approaches to alleviating global poverty.
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“Ten years ago I was kicked out and forced to retire.” Our new medicine laureate Katalin Karikó (Katalin Kariko) 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 experiments by hand but today she has been awarded the medicine prize for her research on mRNA, which led to the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Listen now:
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Newly awarded medicine laureate Peter Hegemann received an email stating, "Call me back, I have something important for you." When he called the number, he discovered he'd been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In our brief conversation, Hegemann speaks about the pleasure of sharing this award with friends, the value of curiosity and the unexpected places inquisitiveness can take you.
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2022 medicine laureate Svante Pääbo made a splash when his colleagues at Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany threw him into a pond, a tradition usually reserved for new PhDs. In October, we'll learn who has been awarded the 2026 medicine prize. Follow along at Video Credit: © Benjamin Vernot
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"I don't care about death because we don't die when the body starts to end. Because what we leave is a message, which is left and this will survive us." Words of wisdom from 1986 medicine laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini. She was the longest-living Nobel Prize laureate, passing away at the age of 103 years. 40 years ago, Levi-Montalcini was awarded the medicine prize for her research and discovery of growth factors. Tomorrow the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine will be announced - join the celebrations on or our social channels.
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"To be the first person to know something - it's really pretty cool if you are a dork like I am." Medicine laureate Fred Ramsdell shares what he loves about science. Ramsdell was awarded the 2025 medicine prize for discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Watch our full interview with Ramsdell:
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Many great discoveries come from unexpected results. John Gurdon encourages his students not to move on too quickly when they don't get the results they were expecting. Gurdon was awarded the 2012 medicine prize jointly with Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent. Learn more:
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