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Science Prizes & Laureate Lectures
Modern science told through its highest honours — Nobel Prizes (Physics, Chemistry), the Crafoord Prize (Astronomy, Geosciences, Biosciences), the Fields Medal and Abel Prize (Mathematics), the Dirac Medal (ICTP), the Max Planck Medal (DPG), and their associated laureate lectures.
4 courses
Nobel Prizes in Chemistry →
A tour of Nobel Prize–winning discoveries in chemistry: ideas, experiments, and the chemists who reshaped the field.
Fields Medal & Abel Prize →
A history of mathematics through its highest honours: the Fields Medal (since 1936) and the Abel Prize (since 2003). Laureates, theorems, and the ideas that reshaped mathematics.
Dirac Medal of ICTP →
A history of theoretical physics through the ICTP Dirac Medal (since 1985, awarded annually on Dirac’s birthday). Laureate lectures on string theory, supergravity, QFT, statistical physics, and quantum mechanics.
Max Planck Medal →
A history of theoretical physics through the German Physical Society’s highest honour, awarded since 1929 — Einstein, Planck, Heisenberg, Pauli, Bethe, Feynman, Witten, and modern laureates. Plus the Lise Meitner Lecture series.