News & Views item - December 2008

 

 

The 2008 Nobel Lectures. (December 16, 2008)

 

According to the Nobel Foundation statutes, the Nobel Laureates are required to "give a public lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded". Click on the links below for video on-demand versions.


Harald zur Hausen
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Luc Montagnier
Nobel Lectures in Physiology or Medicine
Sunday, 7 December at 1:00 p.m.–3.30 p.m. (CET)

The Search for Infectious Causes of Human Cancers: Where and Why? by Harald zur Hausen »

HIV: a Discovery Opening the Road to Novel Scientific Achievements and Global Health Improvement by Françoise Barré-Sinoussi »

25 Years of Research on AIDS - Lessons and Prospects for Cure and Vaccine by Luc Montagnier »

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio Nobel Lecture in Literature
Sunday, 7 December 5:30 p.m. (CET)

Dans la forêt des paradoxes by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio »

Yoichiro Nambu
Makoto Kobayashi
Toshihide Maskawa
Nobel Lectures in Physics
Monday, 8 December 9:00 a.m.–11:05 a.m. (CET)

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Particle Physics: a Case of Cross Fertilization by Yoichiro Nambu »

CP Violation and Flavour Mixing by Makoto Kobayashi »

What Did CP Violation Tell Us? by Toshihide Maskawa »

Osamu Shimomura
Martin Chalfie
Roger Y. Tsien
Nobel Lectures in Chemistry
Monday, 8 December 12:30 p.m.–14:30 p.m. (CET)

Discovery of Green Fluorescent Protein, GFP by Osamu Shimomura »

GFP: Lighting Up Life by Martin Chalfie »

Constructing and Exploiting the Fluorescent Protein Paintbox by Roger Y. Tsien »

Paul Krugman

Prize Lecture in Economics
Monday, 8 December 3:00 p.m.–3:50 p.m. (CET)

Increasing Returns by Paul Krugman »

Martti Ahtisaari
Nobel Lecture in Peace
Wednesday, December 10, 1:00 p.m. (CET)

Nobel Lecture by Martti Ahtisaari »