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20/12/2025

“Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it but the search for it is compulsive,” said literature laureate Harold Pinter.

“The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task. More often than not you stumble upon the truth in the dark, colliding with it or just glimpsing an image or a shape which seems to correspond to the truth, often without realising that you have done so. But the real truth is that there never is any such thing as one truth to be found in dramatic art.”

Learn more about Pinter’s search and his approach to writing by watching his Nobel Prize ceremony speech. He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature for his plays, which “uncover the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms.”

Watch here:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/ceremony-speech/

20/12/2025

20/12/2025

"You should be intellectually flexible and go where the science is needing you."

Fresh from receiving his Nobel Prize medal and diploma, 2025 chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi visited a high school to share his research journey and advice with students.

He described how he and his graduate students evolved across disciplines in the journey of developing MOFs. Starting as a molecular chemist, he ventured into solid-state chemistry, and even learned mechanical engineering in order to study his Nobel Prize-awarded research.

“We had to learn all these things that cross disciplinary borders. I didn’t let that stop me, and I didn’t let it stop my students. Thankfully, they didn't resist me advising them to go across borders. That’s how I think science works, and that’s what has helped me. I didn’t say, ‘I’m a chemist – I don’t do mechanical engineering.’”

Learn more about his Nobel Prize awarded research: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2025/yaghi/facts/

20/12/2025

Do you know which Nobel Prize laureate formulated a wave equation that became a foundation of quantum mechanics?

It was physics laureate Erwin Schrödinger, who published the equation in 1926. It describes how quantum states evolve over time and underpins nearly all modern quantum theory—from atomic structure to quantum computing.

When Schrödinger presented his Nobel Prize lecture in December 1933, he explained his theory as well as speculating how his equation would be used:
“The question is only whether from now on we shall have to refrain from tying description to a clear hypothesis about the real nature of the world. There are many who wish to pronounce such abdication even today. But I believe that this means making things a little too easy for oneself.”

Read Schrödinger’s full Nobel Prize lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1933/schrodinger/lecture/

20/12/2025

Abdulrazak Gurnah, literature laureate 2021 was born in 1948 and grew up on the island of Zanzibar. He arrived in England as a refugee at the end of the 1960s. He could not return to Zanzibar until 1984.

Gurnah began writing as a 21-year-old in English exile, and even though Swahili was his first language, English became his literary tool. During his literary career, Gurnah published ten novels and several short stories. The theme of the refugee’s disruption runs throughout his work.

Read some excerpts from his books: https://bit.ly/3q2yANy

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