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Oct 20, 2026
Sam CohonHOST
One has the therapeutic effect.
Sam CohonHOST
The other can cause unnecessary and sometimes harmful side effects, the Nobel Foundation said.
Sam CohonHOST
Kagan and Soai found ways to make the chemistry pick a side, designing and manipulating reactions to produce the desired mirror image.
Sam CohonHOST
This is probably the coolest experiment in organic chemistry, said Peter Samfai, a member of the Nobel Committee on Chemistry.
Eddy JokovichHOST
And it was awarded to Navi Pillay, the international lawyer whose career spans the struggle against apartheid and decades at the United Nations, pursuing the leaders in countries that have perpetrated genocide and war crimes.
Eddy JokovichHOST
Now, she was also the UN human rights chief, and the Nobel Foundation decided to give her the award for her contribution to peace and international law.
Eddy JokovichHOST
But the government of Israel has got other ideas about this.
Eddy JokovichHOST
Pillay was the head of the UN commission that concluded that Israel has committed a genocide in Gaza.
Eddy JokovichHOST
Apparently, that's all okay, no problem at all.
Eddy JokovichHOST
And the United States also followed suit as well and started attacking this decision of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Eddy JokovichHOST
They started attacking the Nobel Foundation, they started attacking Navi Pillay, then they started attacking the United Nations, and now they've started attacking the International Criminal Court, as well as applying sanctions to the ICC.
Eddy JokovichHOST
And David, this to me just seems like the standard behavior from people that are accused of wrongdoing.
Richard FrantzGUEST
And, uh, during the process of fabrication can, uh, define the size basically of, of the particle itself.
Joe HansonHOST
The Nobel Foundation came up with a great analogy regarding the size of these things.
Joe HansonHOST
If you compare the size of a Q dot to a football, then that's the same relationship as if you were to compare the size of a football to the size of the entire Earth.
Joe HansonHOST
They are stunningly small.
Ricky MulveyHOST
Gabriel and his co-author recount a story from one of Nobel's relatives in their book.
Ricky MulveyHOST
After agreeing to set up the new prize, the Nobel Foundation visited the oldest living member of the Nobel family to get her approval.
Ricky MulveyHOST
She was 87.
Ricky MulveyHOST
She reluctantly accepts, but she insists that this award be given a name that sets it apart from the original Nobel Prizes.
Greg RosalskyHOST
In May 1968, Osbrink unveils this prize at the Swedish Central Bank's 300-year birthday party.
Greg RosalskyHOST
The Swedish parliament, it approves it afterward.
Greg RosalskyHOST
The first prize in economics, it gets bestowed in 1969, and to this day, the central bank supplies the money for the prize, not the Nobel Foundation.
Ricky MulveyHOST
But it doesn't choose the winners.
John PodhoretzHOST
I would be, I'd be delighted to sunset it.
John PodhoretzHOST
Someone would have to somehow shut down the Nobel Foundation and its endowment-
Matthew ContinettiPANELIST
[laughs]
John PodhoretzHOST
... that pays for it.
Chris ChirmackHOST
But first, let's hear a little bit from Hannah Hjarne.
Chris ChirmackHOST
She's the executive director of the Nobel Foundation, who I spoke with earlier this year.
Hanna HjärneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I mean, the Nobel organization, as well as almost any other organization, would like to be a courageous organization.
Hanna HjärneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But when we discussed what will the coming years be like and what kind of courage will be extra important being responsible for the Nobel Prizes, and then we said that the courage that will really need the coming years is integrity.
Hanna HjärneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Courageous peace laureates and creative authors and also scientists that have truly solved things that we didn't really think that we were able to solve.
Hanna HjärneSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So it has this brilliant legacy, and we aim at prices that have that height and that dignity also in the future.
Emma NelsonHOST
That was the head of the Nobel Foundation there, Hanna Hjärna.
Emma NelsonHOST
Well, to tell us more about what's going to happen today, we're joined now from the Nobel Institute, where the announcement is being made.
Robert Marc FriedmanGUEST
I mention that only because that's what brought me to Scandinavia and doing research, uh, uh, on Bjerknes, who had been in Stockholm for the beginning of his career, put me in touch with studying the physics community in Sweden in beginning of the 20th century.
Robert Marc FriedmanGUEST
When the, uh, uh, Nobel Foundation changed the statutes, uh, in the late 1970s to allow, uh, scholars access to the official archives for material more than 50 years old, I was one of the only people who knew, [chuckles] uh, anything about, uh, that.
Robert Marc FriedmanGUEST
So anyway, I, I was invited in, and I began, uh, researching on, on the Nobel, uh, p- prizes.
Robert Marc FriedmanGUEST
And I might mention that the, uh, my earliest research, uh, how I got into publishing and really getting in- into this is, is an interesting story.
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Robert Marc FriedmanGUEST
The, uh, um, the-- A few years after that Nature article came out, there was, uh, uh, a piece in The New York Times about, you know, do the best always get the prize.
Robert Marc FriedmanGUEST
And of course, they don't contact me, even though they discuss the...
Robert Marc FriedmanGUEST
And the head of the Nobel Foundation, you know, the, the, the-- who told me in private at that Nobel symposium, he was happy that I wrote that article in Nature because the physics committee members are so arrogant.
Robert Marc FriedmanGUEST
Um, and, uh, but they says, "Oh, well, uh, you know, Friedman, uh, did a selective reading of, of, of, of, of, of the documents." And if anybody was selective, it's the, it's tho-those people, you know, like Nagel and o- and others.
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The award was announced October 7 by the Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
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In its statement, the Nobel Foundation said the two winners made chemistry choose a mirror image.
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Some molecules, such as amino acids, exist as two variants that are each other's mirror image.
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However, living organisms only contain one of these mirror images, the statement said.
Charles DalyGUEST
Uh, as you, as you say, the- they're increasing the, the, the prize pot per category, uh, by 1 million krona to a total of 12 million krona.
Charles DalyGUEST
Um, and that in part reflects the fact that, that the Nobel Foundation is celebrating 125, uh, years, or its anniversary this year.
Charles DalyGUEST
Um, it is financed by the will of Alfred Nobel, uh, who died in 1896.
Charles DalyGUEST
Uh, and the prize money this year equating to about 60 million krona, uh, is roughly about 1% of the overall investment capital, uh, that's currently in the foundation's coffers.
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