Nobel

The following articles have been tagged with "Nobel":

Republicans call for elk to dethrone cash king

Society: 16 Mar 10
The Swedish Republican Association has called on the central bank to ditch the royals on the country's coins and bank notes in favour of majestic beasts and giants of science and literature. READ »

Westling learns how to become Prince Daniel

National: 21 Feb 10
Daniel Westling, fiancé of the Swedish Crown Princess, is participating in a comprehensive program to deepen his understanding about being a prince. He is marrying Crown Princess Victoria in June. READ »

Fees make competition for students more equal

Analysis & Opinion: 19 Feb 10
A bill proposing tuition fees for students from non-EU countries will enable Sweden to compete on a more level playing field with universities in other countries, argues Niklas Tranæus from the Swedish Institute. READ »

Swedes develop Huntington's medicine

Science & Technology: 5 Feb 10
A Swedish biotechnology firm has developed a new medicine which provides hope for sufferers of Huntington's disease. READ »

Swedish TV show probes growth of English

Analysis & Opinion: 20 Jan 10
Where did the English language come from? Why has it become the world’s most widespread means of communication? What will happen in the future? Keith Foster, host of a new Swedish TV series, travels the world in search of answers. READ »

Hat-trick of Swedish universities make world top 100

Education: 8 Jan 10
Karolinska Institutet, Uppsala University and Stockholm University have made the grade in a new list of the world’s top 100 higher education establishments. READ »

Swedish research puts stomach cancer vaccine in sight

Science & Technology: 30 Dec 09
New research at Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg in western Sweden might be an important step towards creating a vaccine against ulcers and stomach cancer. READ »

From Silicon Valley to Stockholm: Meeting the US Ambassador, Part 2

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Dec 09
In Part 2 of a two-part interview, US Ambassador Matthew Barzun talks to The Local's David Landes about succeeding President Bush's envoy, eco-friendly former Ambassador Michael Wood; the significance The Pirate Bay; and, introducing TED. READ »

From Silicon Valley to Stockholm: Meeting the US Ambassador, Part 1

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Dec 09
In Part 1 of a two-part interview, The Local's David Landes speaks to new US Ambassador Matthew Barzun about fundraising for Obama, adjusting to life in Sweden, Alfred Nobel's legacy, and engaging citizens in online networks. READ »

Sweden risks facing severe labour shortages

Analysis & Opinion: 22 Dec 09
Over the next ten years, the number of native-born Swedes of working age will decline by 100,000. Without more immigrants, we will be unable to sustain our welfare standards, writes Olle Wästberg, head of the Swedish Institute. READ »

Nobel fashion quips land writer in hot water

Society: 22 Dec 09
While the neckline of Princess Madeleine's gown is often under scrutiny by the media during Nobel Week, fashion commentary by one Swedish freelance writer earned her a ban from the leadership of top Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. READ »

Müller slams Russia at Nobel awards ceremony

Society: 11 Dec 09
While the glittering Nobel Prize ceremony opened to a trumpet fanfare, Herta Müller, winner of the Nobel Literature Prize, criticized a number of countries, including Russia, for their lack of commitment to human rights. READ »

Pomp aplenty as winners gather for Nobel gala

Society: 10 Dec 09
Nobel season reaches its pinnacle on Thursday evening as the 2009 laureates receive their awards from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and dignitaries gather for the banquet of the year at City Hall in Stockholm. READ »

Bildt berates Iran over treatment of laureate

Politics: 10 Dec 09
As Stockholm gears up for Thursday's Nobel banquet, the foreign ministers of Sweden and Norway have lashed out at Iran for its treatment of 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, who says Iranian authorities confiscated her medal. READ »

What can't be said can be written: Herta Müller

Analysis & Opinion: 7 Dec 09
Nobel literature laureate Herta Müller contemplated the power and meaning of words as she began her literature lecture on Monday at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. READ »

Nobel Week kicks off with feast and fancy

Society: 6 Dec 09
Nobel Week is once again in full swing, with the 12 Nobel laureates and their respective entourages arriving in the Swedish capital over the weekend. The week’s festivities will culminate with the Nobel Ceremony and Banquet on Thursday. READ »

December in Sweden: From candle-head girls to jellied veal

Lifestyle: 1 Dec 09
The Year in Sweden - December: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966. READ »

Apocalypse soon: Disasters abound at Stockholm Film Festival

Analysis & Opinion: 10 Nov 09
It's the end of the world as we know it at this year's Stockholm Film Festival, which promises everything a budding apocalypticist could ever need. But there are also plenty of more upbeat cinematic treats in store if global doom isn't your bag, writes David Stavrou. READ »

What's on in Sweden: October 16 - 22

Lifestyle: 15 Oct 09
What's on in Sweden: Championship rugby & Massive Attack (UK) in Stockholm/Uppsala; Chocolate festival & avant garde dance in Gothenburg; Rahael Saadiq (US) in Malmö/Lund. READ »

Placido Domingo accepts Swedish opera prize

National: 14 Oct 09
The first Birgit Nilsson prize was awarded on Tuesday to Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, who claimed the award amounted to the "Nobel prize of music." READ »

Activists win 'Alternative Nobel Prize'

Society: 13 Oct 09
A Congolese environmentalist, an Australian doctor and a peace worker from New Zealand have been announced as the joint winners of the Swedish Right Livelihood Prize. READ »

Americans claim Nobel economics prize

Business & Money: 12 Oct 09
Two Americans have been awarded the 2009 Nobel economics prize for their research on economic governance, including the first woman to ever receive the prize. READ »

Swedish journalist claims Obama Nobel jackpot

National: 9 Oct 09
While the decision to award US President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize has been received by widespread surprise, one Swedish journalist is toasting the Norwegians after winning 50,000 kronor on the outcome. READ »

Obama Nobel win shocks Swedish peace group

Politics: 9 Oct 09
The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society has classified as "shameful" the decision by the Nobel Committee in Oslo to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 to Barack Obama. READ »

German author wins Nobel Literature Prize

National: 8 Oct 09
German writer Herta Müller has been announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009. READ »

Speculation mounts as Nobel lit prize nears

Society: 8 Oct 09
Literary circles in Sweden are bursting with speculation ahead of Thursday’s announcement of the Nobel Literature Prize, with many expecting the award to go to a poet for the first time since 1996. READ »

Three to split Nobel chemistry prize

National: 7 Oct 09
Three chemists are to share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in revealing more about how cells go about using bits of DNA to form the blueprints for living organisms. READ »

Fibre optic pioneers to share Nobel physics prize

National: 6 Oct 09
Three researchers are to share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for their breakthroughs in fibre optics and digital imaging, the Royal Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday. READ »

Pundits tip poets for Nobel Literature Prize

Society: 6 Oct 09
This year's Nobel Literature Prize could go to a poet for the first time since 1996, Swedish literary circles say as speculation mounts ahead of Thursday's announcement. READ »

October in Sweden: forest royalty, bandy, prizes from the Academy

Lifestyle: 6 Oct 09
The Year in Sweden - October: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966. READ »

Nobel Prize for medicine split three ways

National: 5 Oct 09
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to three American researchers. READ »

Alfred Nobel's last will and testament

Analysis & Opinion: 5 Oct 09
Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel created the Nobel prizes in his will, written in 1895, bequeathing his fortune to a fund that would honour "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." READ »

Date fixed for Nobel Literature Prize

National: 2 Oct 09
The Swedish Academy said on Thursday that the winner of the Nobel Literature Prize will be announced on Thursday, October 8th. READ »

What's on in Sweden: October 2 - 8

Lifestyle: 1 Oct 09
What's on in Sweden: International poetry festival & American football in Stockholm; International art biennial & World music festival in Gothenburg; Kings of Convenience (NO) in Malmö/Lund. READ »

What's on in Sweden: September 25 - October 1

Lifestyle: 24 Sep 09
What's on in Sweden: Alela Diane (US) and football derby in Stockholm; International Book Fair & French acrobats in Gothenburg; Ane Brun (NO) in Malmö. READ »

What's on in Sweden: September 18 - 24

Lifestyle: 16 Sep 09
What's on in Sweden: Beer festival & Tom Jones (UK) in Stockholm; International Book Fair in Gothenburg; Hello Saferide in Malmö. READ »

Summer Rail Destinations: Stockholm

Travel: 11 Aug 09
The antiquity of Gamla Stan, the forests of Djurgården, the cliffs of Södermalm and of course the surrounding blue sea: all these elements combine to help make Stockholm one of the world’s most beautiful cities. READ »

Nobel corruption probe dropped

National: 8 Aug 09
An investigation into the alleged corruption of several members of the Nobel prize science committee will be laid down, a Swedish prosecutor announced Friday. READ »

Migration agency used anti-Muslim lawyer

National: 24 Jun 09
A lawyer contracted by the Swedish Migration Board to represent asylum seekers has a personal blog in which he refers to Islam as a “psychosocial disease”. READ »

Clinton and Blair in Stockholm climate conference

Science & Technology: 2 Apr 09
Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Nobel prize-winner Wangari Maathai, met Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt in Stockholm on Wednesday to discuss the impact of the financial crisis on work to arrest climate change. READ »

Enjoying bourgeois buns in the home of functionalist architecture

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Mar 09
There's no better place in Stockholm to savour croissants and cappucino than Petite France, an award-winning cafe and bakery located on the ground floor of Sweden's most Utopian apartment block, writes Jeanne Rudbeck. READ »

Princess Lilian taken to hospital

Society: 9 Feb 09
Princess Lilian, 93, the British-born aunt of Sweden's King Carl Gustaf, is being treated at hospital on Monday after taking a tumble at her Stockholm home. READ »

Saab hit by new South Africa bribery probe

Politics: 29 Jan 09
A Saab subsidiary is under investigation for bribery in connection with the 1999 sale of JAS Gripen combat aircraft to South Africa, prompting calls from Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu to scrap the deal. READ »

Gala concert in Stockholm to mark Obama inaguration

Lifestyle: 15 Jan 09
Inspired by Barack Obama’s ascendency to the White House, Cyndee Peters, a legendary Stockholm-based gospel singer from North Carolina, has rented out the city’s famed Konserthuset for a musical gala to honour the United States’ 44th president. READ »

Head of Swedish Academy to step down

National: 21 Dec 08
Horace Engdahl has announced he is stepping down as the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, the body which awards the Nobel Prize for literature. READ »

Nobel Committees investigated for bribery

Science & Technology: 18 Dec 08
Swedish prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation into possible bribery after revelations that members of three Swedish Nobel Committees received free trips to China from the Chinese government. READ »

Nobel laureates receive prizes in Stockholm

Society: 10 Dec 08
Princess Madeleine and economics laureate Paul Krugman were among the guests at the Nobel banquet in Stockholm's City Hall on Wednesday evening. READ »

Sweden decks the halls for Nobel festivities

Society: 10 Dec 08
Over a million Swedes are expected to stay glued to their television sets on Wednesday to watch monarchs, politicians and assorted clever clogs tuck in to the annual Nobel banquet. READ »

Le Clézio travels into 'the forest of paradoxes'

Analysis & Opinion: 7 Dec 08
Nobel literature laureate Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio explores the paradoxes of his profession and argues that the eradication of hunger and illiteracy go hand-in-hand, writes Charlotte West. READ »

US Nobel laureate to miss 2008 ceremony

Science & Technology: 5 Dec 08
American Yoichiro Nambu, 87, who won this year's Nobel Physics Prize with two Japanese physicists, will not travel to Stockholm next week for the award ceremony, the Nobel Foundation said on Friday. READ »

Saviano to attend Stockholm premiere

Society: 26 Nov 08
Renowned Italian author Roberto Saviano is to attend the Swedish premiere of the film adaptation of his hard-hitting book Gomorrah at the 19th Stockholm Film Festival on Wednesday. READ »

'Do more to encourage talented students': Moderates

Education: 19 Nov 08
Schools need to do a better job of encouraging and taking responsibility for talented students, according to Moderate Party working group. READ »

Top ten Swedish inventions

Lifestyle: 10 Nov 08
Nina Liljeqvist looks at ten Swedish inventions that have changed the world. READ »

French Nobel laureate receives Swedish literature prize

Society: 26 Oct 08
Nobel prize-winning French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio was in Sweden on Saturday to receive the Stig Dagerman prize for his work drawn from his vast world travels, jury members said. READ »

'Lost, tossed and forgotten' in Sweden

Lifestyle: 23 Oct 08
An American magazine dedicated to salvaging “the best lost, tossed and forgotten items from around the world” is about to bring its acclaimed live show to Sweden, writes Jennifer Heape. READ »

Sweden is in the eye of the beholder

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Oct 08
Sweden means many different things to many different people. Just ask the United States Secret Service, writes Olle Wästberg, director-general of the Swedish Institute. READ »

American wins Nobel Prize for Economics

Society: 13 Oct 08
US economist and columnist Paul Krugman has been awarded the 2008 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. READ »

Bildt calls Ahtisaari's 2008 Nobel Peace Prize 'well-deserved'

National: 10 Oct 08
Sweden’s foreign minister Carl Bildt offered his congratulations to former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari for being named the recipient of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. READ »

French novelist wins Nobel Literature Prize

Society: 9 Oct 08
French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has been awarded the Nobel Literature Prize. READ »

Nobel Literature Prize speculation mounts

Society: 9 Oct 08
As the Swedish Academy prepares to announce the winner of the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday, critics argue that major US literary figures are being unfairly sidelined. READ »

Three chemists awarded Nobel Prize

Science & Technology: 8 Oct 08
The 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded jointly to two US scientists and a Japanese colleague "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". READ »

Nobel physics award split three ways

Science & Technology: 7 Oct 08
Two researchers from Japan and an American colleague have been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics. READ »

Three share Nobel Prize for Medicine

Science & Technology: 6 Oct 08
The 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to Harald zur Hausen, Francoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier. READ »

Date set for Nobel Literature Prize

Society: 3 Oct 08
As speculation begins to mount over this year's Nobel Literature Prize, the Swedish Academy said on Friday it would announce the winner on October 9th. READ »

Swedish Academy rep slams US literature

Society: 1 Oct 08
Swedish Academy supremo Horace Engdahl has shocked the global literary establishment by denouncing the cultural "ignorance" of authors from the United States. READ »

'Alternative Nobel' to Indian, US, Somali and German activists

Society: 1 Oct 08
Four social activists from India, the United States, Somalia and Germany have been named as this year's winners of the annual Right Livelihood Prize by the Sweden-based foundation. READ »

Demonstrators battle police in Malmö

National: 20 Sep 08
Clashes between police and demonstrators broke out on Friday as Malmö played host to the European Social Forum. Rocks were thrown at police, windows were broken and a woman was raped as 800 people demonstrated to highlight climate change. READ »

Sweden slams Iran for jailing women's rights activist

Politics: 5 Sep 08
Sweden’s foreign minister Carl Bildt took aim at Iran on Friday, condemning the country for sentencing women’s rights activist Parvin Ardalan to prison. READ »

What’s on in Sweden: August 22 - 28

Lifestyle: 21 Aug 08
What’s on: Peace concert and vaudeville theatre in Stockholm; theatre, dance & midnight running in Gothenburg and festival time in Malmö. READ »

Nobel a likely no-no for Sweden's king of crime fiction

Analysis & Opinion: 20 Aug 08
The most popular work of crime fiction ever published in Sweden is never likely to win a Nobel Prize. But it should, argues Jeanne Rudbeck, who is left spellbound by Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. READ »

Karolinska 'best university in Sweden'

Education: 15 Aug 08
Stockholm medical university Karolinska Institutet has been named the best university in Sweden by a new international survey. READ »

Princess Lilian breaks hip in fall

National: 13 Aug 08
Princess Lilian, the British-born aunt of Sweden's King Carl Gustaf, has been taken to hospital after falling and breaking her hip. READ »

What’s on in Sweden: August 8 - 14

Lifestyle: 7 Aug 08
What’s on: Culture and city pride in Stockholm, Culture and jazz in Gothenburg, Deep Purple near Malmö and Reggae nights in Uppsala. READ »

Nobel literature academy hails Solzhenitsyn

Society: 4 Aug 08
The head of the institute that designates the Nobel literature prize has lamented the passing of the 1970 winner of the award, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. READ »

Opening a window on the Queer world

Lifestyle: 2 Jul 08
A new exhibition of 'queer' art provides a perfect prelude to this year's Europride festival, writes David Bartal. READ »

Sweden’s best English-language bookstores

Lifestyle: 2 Jun 08
Sometimes there’s no substitute for browsing the shelves and taking a book home with you, writes James Savage, who trawls the land in the search for some top notch English-language bookstores. READ »

Birka - A day trip into the Viking past

Travel: 13 May 08
The Local’s Faisal Enayat Khan joins the tourists on board the MS Victoria and sails out into the Stockholm’s archipelago to the island of Birka to put the Swedish capital’s ‘Beauty on Water’ theory to the test. READ »

Winning Nobel ‘a bloody disaster’ for British author

Society: 12 May 08
British author Doris Lessing has said that winning the Nobel Prize for Literature was a "bloody disaster", adding she has now stopped writing, the BBC reported Sunday. READ »

Nobel speech censored by Chinese television

National: 26 Apr 08
The Nobel Foundation has terminated a contract with TV 4 after it has emerged that its chairman's speech was censored by Chinese television. READ »

Bildt seeks to expand Middle East cooperation

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Apr 08
Foreign Minister Carl Bildt's recent visit to the Middle East marks a possible shift in Sweden’s traditionally cautious, “two-steps forward, one-step back” approach to Middle Eastern conflicts, writes Rami Abdelrahman. READ »