Press releases 2008–2001

December

• Webcasted press conferences and interviews with the Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry, and the Laureate in Economic Sciences

  2008-12-01 Welcome to press conferences and interviews with the Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry, and the Laureate in Economic Sciences for 2008.

October

• The Prize in Economic Sciences 2008

  2008-10-13 This year's Laureate is awarded the Prize for his research on international trade and economic geography. He has shown the effects of economies of scale on trade patterns and on the location of economic activity.

• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008

  2008-10-08 The remarkable brightly glowing green fluorescent protein, GFP, was first observed in the beautiful jellyfish, Aequorea victoria in 1962. Since then, this protein has become one of the most important tools used in contemporary bioscience.

• The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008

  2008-10-07 Why is there something instead of nothing? Why are there so many different elementary particles? The Laureates in Physics have presented theoretical insights that give us a deeper understanding of what happens inside the tiniest building blocks of matter.

September

• The Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and the Prize in Economic Sciences 2008

  2008-09-22 Welcome to press conferences with the announcements of this year’s Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry, and for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

• Europeans awarded the Aminoff Prize 2009 for the development of revolutionary programme systems

  2008-09-11 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS) has decided to award the Gregori Aminoff Prize in crystallography 2009 to George M. Sheldrick, Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, Germany and Gérard Bricogne, Global Phasing Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom

May

• The Rolf Schock Prizes 2008

  2008-05-12 The philosopher Thomas Nagel, New York University, NY, USA, the mathematician Endre Szemerédi, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, NJ, USA, the artist Mona Hatoum and the musician Gidon Kremer have been awarded the Rolf Schock Prizes 2008.

January

• The Crafoord Prize in Mathematics and Astronomy 2008

  2008-01-17 This year’s prize has been awarded to Maxim Kontsevich, Edward Witten and Rashid Alievich Sunyaev. It rewards mathematical discoveries that are significant for the fundamental laws of nature and research on black holes and the early Universe.

• The Crafoord Prize 2008: Mathematics and Astronomy

  2008-01-15 On Thursday morning 17 January, at 08.00 am (Swedish time, GMT +1 hour) the Crafoord Prize for 2008 will be announced. This year’s disciplines are Matematics and Astronomy. A press release and a popular science article will be sent out and scientific experts are available on telephone.