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Nature Podcast

Nature Extra: Nobel News

Nature Podcast

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News, Science, Technology

4.5893 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Science gets glitzy in October each year as the Nobel Prizes are awarded. Find out who took home the prizes for Medicine or Physiology, Physics and Chemistry.

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Hello everybody and welcome to this podcast Extra.

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Science got a little bit glitzy this week, as it always does this time of year, because this happened.

1:10.4

The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

1:15.1

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

1:17.1

This year's Nobel Prize in physics.

1:19.4

And as usual, we'll do it both in Swedish and in English.

1:23.9

Joining us to talk about the Nobel's is senior news editor Richard Van Norton.

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Hi Kerry.

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Welcome.

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Now, we're going to do these in order of difficulty, most difficult first, and then we're

1:33.2

going to slide down the scale towards the easiest to understand.

1:36.3

It's really only possible to understand the physicists who won the Nobel by the medium

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