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Nobel Prize Lessons 2020

 

Ready to use lessons on the 2020 Nobel Prizes, published here the day after each announcement. The lessons are so easy to use, that a teacher can look through the manual, watch the slides, print the texts for students and then start the class.

Nobel Prize Lessons

“The fight against one of our greatest global health problems – blood-borne hepatitis” a Nobel Prize Lesson about the 2020 Medicine Prize.
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Hepatitis illustration

© The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén

“Black holes and the Milky Way’s darkest secret”, a Nobel Prize Lesson about the 2020 Physics Prize

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The sky at night

© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

“Genetic scissors: a tool for rewriting the code of life”, a Nobel Prize Lesson about the 2020 Chemistry Prize.
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Using the genetic scissors

© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

A Nobel Prize Lesson about the 2020 Literature Prize, awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal” Find the lesson here.

World Food Programme

© Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas Elmehed.

A Nobel Prize Lesson about the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to eradicate hunger.
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World Food Programme

© Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas Elmehed.

A Nobel Prize Lesson about the 2020 Economic Sciences Prize, which was awarded for research that improves auctions in practice.
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Nobel Prizes and laureates

Eleven laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize in 2023, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. Their work and discoveries range from effective mRNA vaccines and attosecond physics to fighting against the oppression of women.

See them all presented here.
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