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May 28, 2012
Nobel_prizes
The following articles have been tagged with "Nobel_prizes":
Stockholm 'no better than Oslo': Norwegian
Society: 28 Mar 12
A Norwegian man has reported Stockholm to the Swedish consumer ombudsman claiming that the slogan "Stockholm – the Capital of Scandinavia" is "misleading".
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Authorities lay Nobel Peace Prize probe to rest
Science & Technology: 22 Mar 12
A recent investigation into the Nobel Foundation following criticism of some of its choices for the Peace Prize will not be pursued any further, Swedish authorities said on Wednesday.
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Laureates accept Nobel prizes in Stockholm
Society: 10 Dec 11
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf handed out the Nobel prizes in medicine, literature, economics, physics and chemistry the 2011 laureates at a gala ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday.
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Alfred Nobel’s last will and testament
Analysis & Opinion: 3 Oct 11
Swedish industrialist and scholar Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), who made a substantial fortune from his invention of dynamite in 1866, established the Nobel Prizes in his will.
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Syrian poet tipped ahead of Nobel lit prize announcement
Lifestyle: 2 Oct 11
With the winner of the annual Nobel Prizes due to be announced in the coming days, speculation is rife over who will win the prestigious literature award this year, the AFP's Igor Gedilaghine discovers.
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Stockholm University: at the forefront of Chemistry research
Education: 19 Apr 11
With four Nobel Chemistry Prize winners through history and leading research in many fields of science, Stockholm University provides a unique environment for chemistry researchers and students.
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Winners accept prizes in Nobel week climax
Society: 10 Dec 10
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf handed the 2010 Nobel laureates in literature, economics, physics and chemistry their prizes on Friday at a gala ceremony in Stockholm.
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Nobel breakthroughs require sustained investment: UK minister
Analysis & Opinion: 10 Dec 10
As the 2010 Nobel Laureates prepare to receive their prizes in Stockholm on Friday, UK Science Minister David Willetts highlights the importance of UK-Swedish research collaboration.
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Three share Nobel Prize in economics
Business & Money: 11 Oct 10
Three researchers were awarded the the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics "for their analysis of markets with search frictions", work which is often applied to the study of labour markets.
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Swedish activists praise Peace Prize winner Liu
National: 8 Oct 10
Swedish democracy activists praised the choice of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, but emphasised he is not the only prisoner of conscience in China that should be released.
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Father of test tube babies claims Nobel in medicine
Science & Technology: 4 Oct 10
The first of the 2010 Nobel Prizes, the prize for medicine, has been awarded to British researcher Robert Edwards for his work on in-vitro fertilization.
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Alfred Nobel’s last will and testament
Lifestyle: 4 Oct 10
Swedish industrialist and scholar Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), who made a substantial fortune from his invention of dynamite in 1866, established the Nobel Prizes in his will.
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Date released for Nobel Literature Prize
Society: 1 Oct 10
The Swedish Academy said on Friday that the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday, October 7th at 1pm.
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3 Swedish universities make top 100 list
Education: 18 Aug 10
Three Swedish universities, Karolinska Institute (KI) and Uppsala and Stockholm Universities, made the top 100 of the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled annually by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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Top ten Swedish inventions
Lifestyle: 10 Nov 08
Nina Liljeqvist looks at ten Swedish inventions that have changed the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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Black hole scientists win Swedish prize
Science & Technology: 17 Jan 08
An American and two Russian researchers have won a major Swedish scientific award, the Crafoord Prize, for their work on black holes.
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Pomp and ceremony for Nobel winners
National: 11 Dec 07
Stockholm put on its glad rags and millions watched on TV as the Nobel Banquet celebrated the world's best brains.
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Nobel winners take prizes in Stockholm
National: 10 Dec 07
The winners of the 2007 Nobel prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and economics received their awards from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf in a ceremony on Monday.
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What is Nobel Week really about?
Analysis & Opinion: 10 Dec 07
As Nobel laureates, foreign media and a host of other dignitaries descend on Stockholm, Charlotte West recalls her conversations with two of last year’s winners about the real significance of Nobel Week.
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Winners gather to receive Right Livelihood Prize
National: 7 Dec 07
The Right Livelihood prize, the so-called 'alternative Nobel prizes', was set to be awarded on Friday evening at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament.
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Americans win Nobel Economics Prize
Society: 15 Oct 07
The 2007 Nobel Prize for Economics has gone to Leonid Hurwicz, Eric S. Maskin and Roger B. Myerson "for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory".
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Swede tipped for Nobel Economics Prize
National: 15 Oct 07
The 2007 Nobel prize season comes to a close on Monday with the announcement of the Economics Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Labrokes is tipping a Swedish professor to win.
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The drawn-out birth of the Nobels
Lifestyle: 8 Oct 07
The will of Alfred Nobel led to the creation of some of the most sought-after international prizes in science, politics and literature. But many of his contemporaries were puzzled by his idea.
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No jokes please, we're the Nobel Prize Committee
Lifestyle: 3 Oct 07
Sweden's literati-glitterati are whispering the names of the candidates for this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. As Jeanne Rudbeck writes, jokes and vulgarity don't go down well at the academy that bypassed Joyce and Wodehouse.
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'Alternative Nobel Prize' awarded
Society: 2 Oct 07
The Right Livelihood prize, an annual "alternative" to the Nobel prizes, was awarded Tuesday to peace and environmental activists from Sri Lanka, Kenya, Canada and Bangladesh.
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Japanese emperor fetes Linnaeus tricentenary in Sweden
Society: 23 May 07
The Japanese Emperor and Empress are in Uppsala on Wednesday to celebrate the 300th birthday of botanist Carolus Linnaeus.
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Japanese imperial couple delve into the natural sciences
Society: 22 May 07
The Emperor and Empress of Japan stopped off at botanical gardens, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and a natural history museum as part of their visit to Stockholm.
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Hats off to Polar Music Prize winners
Society: 21 May 07
Saxophonist Sonny Rollins and composer Steve Reich were in Stockholm on Monday to talk about the Polar Music Prize, jazz music and baseball caps, before collecting their gongs from King Carl Gustaf in a ceremony at Konserthuset.
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Turkish writer wins Nobel literature prize
National: 12 Oct 06
The Turkish author, journalist and social commentator Orhan Pamuk has been awarded the world's most prestigious literature prize - and a cool 10 million kronor.
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Speculation mounts over Nobel Literature Prize
National: 6 Oct 06
The 2006 Nobel Literature Prize laureate will be announced next Thursday. Potential names being discussed in Stockholm's literary circles include Amos Oz, Philip Roth, Adonis and Mario Vargas Llosa.
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Big Bang scientists win Nobel Physics Prize
National: 3 Oct 06
American scientists John C. Mather and George F. Smoot have won the Nobel Physics Prize, the Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced. The pair are honoured for their work on the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.
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Nobel Prize dates set
National: 18 Aug 06
The Nobel Foundation has set the dates for the announcements of this year's Nobel Prize winners.
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King reaches 60 secure on his throne
Lifestyle: 27 Apr 06
This weekend will see King Carl XVI Gustaf feted by foreign royalty, parliamentarians and thousands of his people. As he celebrates his 60th birthday, Sweden's king can satisfy himself with approval ratings that would make a politician green with envy.
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Royals shine at Nobel banquet
National: 11 Dec 05
Swedish king presents Nobel prizes
The theme of Saturday's Nobel banquet was 'Nordic' and Sweden's royal family glittered among the intellectual elite. The evening also provided a brief respite for beleaguered foreign minister Laila Freivalds.
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Swedish king presents Nobel prizes
Smörgåsbord: 10 Dec 05
The great and the good - and the jolly clever - gather in Stockholm for the academic world's Oscars. The winners are ten million kronor better off - and they might even get to meet Princess Madeleine.
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Stockholm theatre to premiere unknown Nobel play
Lifestyle: 23 Nov 05
A previously unknown play written by Alfred Nobel, the creator of the prestigious Nobel prizes, will premiere in Stockholm on the same day this year's awards are distributed.
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Peace prize awarded to IAEA
National: 7 Oct 05
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awards the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General Mohamed ElBaradei.
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A Nobel Calling
National: 5 Oct 05
Jean-Paul Sartre turned one down, Marie Curie was the first woman to win one, and many doubt that Henry Kissinger should ever have been awarded his Nobel Prize. And we won't find out why he was for fifty years.
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Nobel descendant slams Economics prize
National: 28 Sep 05
A week before this year's Nobel laureates are annonunced, the great great nephew of Alfred Nobel reiterates his criticism of the Nobel Economics Prize, calling it "a PR coup by economists to improve their reputation".
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Bono in running for Nobel prize
National: 18 Aug 05
The Nobel Foundation will announce the winners of the prestigious prizes between October 3rd and 14th, but the Irish rocker faces stiff competition from presidents and humanitarian organisations.
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Meet Sanna, 9 years old
Sanna is one of 2 million people in Sweden under the age of 18. Sweden is seen as a good place to grow up. The law makes sure children are well-protected and defends their rights and any organizations work with children's well-being. Read more »
Strindberg, king of drama
August Strindberg's plays shocked society, dazzled audiences and revolutionized drama. A century after his death, Strindberg, with his powerful, timeless themes, is celebrated around the world. Read more »
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