Watch the Academy’s official Nobel Lectures 2020, with this year’s Laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences. Video now available.
This year’s lectures will be delivered digitally and the event will be webcast at www.kva.se, www.nobelprize.org and SVT Play.
Nobel Laureate in Physics 2020: Andrea Ghez, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Introduction by Ariel Goobar, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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09.00
Welcome address
Dan Larhammar, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
ca 09.05–11.00 THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS
Black Holes, Cosmology, and Space-Time Singularities
Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, UK
A Forty Year Journey
Reinhard Genzel, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany and University of California, Berkeley, USA
From the Possibility to the Certainty of a Supermassive Black Hole
Andrea Ghez, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
11.00–13.00 THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY
For the development of a method for genome editing
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany
The Chemistry of CRISPR: Editing the Code of Life
Jennifer A. Doudna, University of California, Berkeley, USA
13.00–15.00 THE PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES
Auction Theory Evolving: Theorems and Applications
Paul R. Milgrom, Stanford University, USA
Strategic Analysis of Auction Markets
Robert B. Wilson, Stanford University, USA
Webcast
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