Nobel Academy

Health news

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun win Nobel Prize in medicine

The rest of the 2024 Nobel Prizes will be awarded throughout the week.

7 October 2024

Culture news

You'll never guess how long it took to finish this dictionary

The 39 volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stands as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers...

27 October 2023

Finland

Martti Ahtisaari, former Finnish president and Nobel Laureate dies, 86

In 2021, it was announced that Ahtisaari had advanced Alzheimer’s disease, and in a televised speech on Monday Finland's current president said that he died after "a long illness."

16 October 2023