The Nobel Lectures 2021

Date: 2021-12-08

Time: 09:00 - 15:00

Venue: Webcast at www.kva.se, www.nobelprize.org and SVT Play

Watch the Academy’s official Nobel Lectures 2021, with this year’s Laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences. Video now available.

 

This year’s lectures will be delivered digitally and the event will be webcast at www.kva.sewww.nobelprize.org and SVT Play.

Nobel Laureate in Physics 2021: Klaus Hasselmann, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany. Introduction by Thors Hans Hansson, Chair of the Nobel Committe for Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

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09.00

Welcome address
Dan Larhammar, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

ca 09.05–11.00 THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS

Physical Modelling of Earth´s Climate
Syukuro Manabe, Princeton University, USA

The Human Footprint of Climate Change
Klaus Hasselmann, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany

Multiple equilibria
Giorgio Parisi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

11.00–13.00 THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

Asymmetric Organocatalysis  
Benjamin List, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

Asymmetric Organocatalysis: Democratizing Catalysis For a Sustainable World
David W.C. MacMillan, Princeton University, USA

13.00–15.00 THE PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES

Design‐Based Research in Empirical Microeconomics
David Card, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Empirical strategies in economics: Illuminating the path from cause to effect
Joshua D. Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Causality in econometrics: methods in conversation with practice
Guido W. Imbens, Stanford University, USA

Webcast

The lectures will be available as webcast and video on demand at www.kva.se, www.nobelprize.org and at SVT Play

Contact

Peter Brandén
Program Coordinator
program@kva.se