Welcome to the Academy’s official Nobel Lectures 2019, with lectures by this year’s Laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences.
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The lectures are open to the public and will be held in English. No registration or entrance fee. Please note that it is not possible to make reservations. The hall will open at 08:40.
Welcome address
Dan Larhammar, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS
How Physical Cosmology Grew
James Peebles, Princeton University, USA
Plurality of Worlds in the Cosmos: A Dream of Antiquity, A Modern Reality of Astrophysics
Michel Mayor, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Didier Queloz, Université de Genève, Switzerland and University of Cambridge, UK
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY
Designing Lithium-ion Battery Cathodes
John B. Goodenough, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
The Origins of the Lithium Battery
Stanley Whittingham, Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA
Akira Yoshino, Asahi Kasei Corporation, Tokyo, Japan and Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan
14.00–15.50
THE PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES
Field experiments and the practice of economics
Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Experimentation, Innovation, and Economics
Michael Kremer, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
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