2023 Nobel Prizes

[Greg]

The menu for this year's Noble Prize Banquet is:

"Yellow beetroot baked with seaweed and salt and a cream made from seaweed from Sweden’s west coast.
Served with buttermilk and dill-seed plus sturgeon caviar from Strömsnäsbruk.

Cod loin stuffed with king crab, served with a kohlrabi roll and a potato dumpling filled with cod and king crab, accompanied by pickled onions with mushrooms. Served with winter vegetables and pickled summer vegetables, accompanied by a grilled blue mussel sauce.

Baked chocolate cream with a compôte made of lingonberries from Mockträsk outside Boden, flavoured with tar syrup. Served with a chocolate sablé and lingonberry toffee, accompanied by meringues
and cream made of lingonberries and a fresh crème fraiche parfait."

[Greg]

As she is still in prison, Narges Mohammadi was not able to accept her Nobel Peace Prize in person. The ceremony had an empty chair representing her as well as her picture. Her acceptance speech was smuggled out of prison and read by her 17-year-old-twin daughter and son Kiana and Ali Rahmani, in, I believe, French.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKrjqPvwD64

The Nobel Prize site has an English translation of the speech.

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2023 ... ecture.pdf

[Greg]

"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 to Claudia Goldin,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, 'for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.'”

[Greg]

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all." This makes the second year in a row that the Nobel Peace Prize has gone, at least partly, to someone imprisoned.

[Greg]

"The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, 'for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable'”.

[Greg]

"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov 'for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.'”

[Greg]

"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier 'for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.'”

[Greg]

The Nobel Prizes are being awarded this week. Today is Physiology And Medicine.

"The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19:"

https://nobelprize.org

This is one of the most deserved Nobel Prizes ever. This is an especially inspirational story about Katalin Kariko.

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/ ... -by-upenn/

“'If you know about 10 years ago, I was here in October because I was kicked out from UPenn, was forced to retire,'” Karikó told the Nobel Prize organization in an interview Monday." Kariko's daughter Susan is a two-time Olympic gold medalist in rowing.