The Nobel Conference is an

academic conference An academic conference or scientific conference (also congress, symposium, workshop, or meeting) is an event for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their scholarly work. Together with academic or scientific journals an ...

held annually at

Gustavus Adolphus College Gustavus Adolphus College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in St. Peter, Minnesota. It was founded in 1862 by Swedish Americans led by Eric Norelius and is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Gustavus gets its nam ...

St. Peter, Minnesota St. Peter is a city in Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States. It is 10 miles north of the Mankato – North Mankato metropolitan area. The population was 12,066 at the 2020 census. St. Peter is the county seat of Nicollet County and home ...

Founded in 1963
the conference links a general audience with the world's foremost scholars and researchers in conversations centered on contemporary issues related to the

natural Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are p ...

and

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soci ...

. It is the first ongoing academic conference in the United States to have the official authorization of the

Nobel Foundation The Nobel Foundation ( sv, Nobelstiftelsen) is a private institution founded on 29 June 1900 to manage the finances and administration of the Nobel Prizes. The foundation is based on the last will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. It ...

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

History

Gustavus Adolphus College was founded by Swedish immigrants in 1862 and throughout its history, has continued to honor its Swedish heritage. As the College prepared to build a new science hall in the early 1960s, College officials asked the Nobel Foundation for permission to name the building the

Alfred Nobel Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( , ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedes, Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and Philanthropy, philanthropist. He is best known for having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel ...

Hall of Science as a memorial to the great Swedish inventor and philanthropist. Permission was granted, and the facility's dedication ceremony in 1963 included 26

Nobel laureates The Nobel Prizes ( sv, Nobelpriset, no, Nobelprisen) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make ou ...

and officials from the Nobel Foundation. Following the 1963 Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, College representatives met with Nobel Foundation officials, asking them to endorse an annual science conference at the College and to allow use of the Nobel name to establish credibility and high standards. At the urging of several prominent Nobel laureates, the foundation granted the request and the first conference was held at the College in January 1965. Beginning with the help of an advisory committee composed of Nobel laureates such as

Glenn Seaborg Glenn Theodore Seaborg (; April 19, 1912February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work in ...

Philip Showalter Hench Philip Showalter Hench (February 28, 1896 – March 30, 1965) was an American physician. Hench, along with his Mayo Clinic co-worker Edward Calvin Kendall and Swiss chemist Tadeus Reichstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medici ...

, and Sir John Eccles, the conferences have been consistently successful in attracting the world's foremost authorities as speakers. Past speakers have included

David H. Hubel David Hunter Hubel (February 27, 1926 – September 22, 2013) was a Canadian American neurophysiologist noted for his studies of the structure and function of the visual cortex. He was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Pri ...

Fritz Lipmann Fritz Albert Lipmann (; June 12, 1899 – July 24, 1986) was a German-American biochemist and a co-discoverer in 1945 of coenzyme A. For this, together with other research on coenzyme A, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in ...

, Sir Harold Walter Kroto, and Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum. Fifty-nine

have served as speakers, five of whom were awarded the Nobel prize after speaking at the Nobel conference at Gustavus. The Nobel conference has a focus on scientific topics such as "Medicine: Prescription for Tomorrow" (2006), "The Legacy of Einstein" (2005), "The Science of Aging" (2004), "The Nature of Nurture" (2002), "Virus: The Human Connection" (1998), and "The New Shape of Matter: Materials Challenge Science" (1995). The social sciences are also well represented and many topics are interdisciplinary; focusing on economics, politics, the social sciences, and philosophy. The Nobel conference is open to the general public.

Current

2022 - Mental Health (In)Equity and Young People
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is happening September 28 & 29, 2022 and will address mental health disparities and their effects on youth, with a particular emphasis on the significance of identity, trauma and technology. Confirmed 2022 Speakers * Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University * Manuela Barreto, Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Exeter * Daniel Eisenberg, Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA * Joseph P. Gone, Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard * Priscilla Lui, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Southern Methodist University * G. Nic Rider, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Transgender Health Program, Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, and Associate Director for Research, National Center for Gender Spectrum Health, University of Minnesota Medical School * Brendesha Tynes, Associate Professor of Education and Psychology, USC
2021 Big Data REvolution
The 2021 Nobel Conference was "Big Data REvolution" and took place October 5–6, 2021 in Saint Peter, Minnesota at Gustavus Adolphus College. How is big data changing our lives, and what challenges and opportunities does this transformation present? In less than a generation, we’ve witnessed nearly every piece of personal, scientific, and societal data come to be stored digitally. Stored information is both an intellectual and an economic commodity; it is used by businesses, governments, academics, and entrepreneurs. The velocity with which it accumulates and the techniques for leveraging it grow at a pace that is remarkable and often intimidating. But this revolution also promises hope, in areas as diverse as public health, drug development, child welfare, and climate change. Lecturers included:
Talithia Williams
PhD: Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
Francesca Dominici
PhD Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science; Co-Director, the Data Science Initiative, Harvard University
Michael Osterholm
PhD A Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health; Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota
Cynthia Rudin
PhD Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistical Science; Director, Prediction Analysis Lab, Duke University
Pilar Ossorio
JD, PhD Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin
Rhema Vaithianathan
PhD Professor of Health Economics; Director, Centre for Social Data Analytics, Auckland University of Technology
Wendy Chun
PhD Canada 150 Research Chair; Leader, the Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University '
2020- Cancer in the Age of Biotechnology
'' Lecturers included: * Carl June * Chanita Hughes-Halbert * Jim Thomas * Kathryn Schmitz *

Suzanne Chambers Suzanne Kathleen Chambers , is a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health at Sydney's University of Technology. She specialises in psycho-oncology, and has received Queen's Birthday honours. Chambers has worked on psycho-oncology, prostate c ...

Charles Sawyers Charles L. Sawyers (born 1959) is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator who holds the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). HO ...

Bissan Al-Lazikani Professor Bissan Al-Lazikani PhD FRSB MBCS is a data scientist and drug discoverer. She applies computational techniques to help solve critical bottlenecks in cancer drug discovery and development. Since 2021 she has been professor of genomic m ...

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2019- Climate Changed: Facing Our Future
'' Lectures Included: *

Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956)Ghosh, Amitav
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Richard Alley Richard Blane Alley (born 18 August 1957) is an American geologist and Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University. He has authored more than 240 refereed scientific publications about the relationships between Earth's cryo ...

Diana Liverman Diana Liverman (born May 15, 1954, Accra, Ghana) is a retired Regents Professor of Geography and Development and past Director of the University of Arizona School of Geography, Development and Environment in the College of Social and Behavioral ...

Sheila Watt-Cloutier Sheila Watt-Cloutier (born 2 December 1953) is a Canadian Inuk activist. She has been a political representative for Inuit at the regional, national and international levels, most recently as International Chair for the Inuit Circumpolar Counc ...

* Gabriele Hegerl *

David Keith David Keith may refer to: * David Keith (novelist) (1906–1994), pen name of American scholar Francis Steegmuller *David Keith (actor) (born 1954), American film and TV performer and director *David Keith (physicist), Canadian-born Harvard Profess ...

Mike Hulme Michael Hulme (born 23 July 1960) is Professor of Human Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, and also a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was formerly professor of Climate and Culture at King's Colleg ...

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2018- Living Soil: "A Universe Underfoot
Lectures Included * David Montgomery * Claire Chenu *

Rattan Lal Rattan Lal (born 5 September 1944) is a Soil science, soil scientist. His work focuses on regenerative agriculture through which soil can help resolve global issues such as Effects of climate change on agriculture, climate change, food security an ...

* Frank Uekotter * Ray Archuleta * Jack Gilbert *

Suzanne Simard Suzanne Simard (born 1960)Cori Vanchierim'An ecologist’s new book gets at the root of trees’ social lives,' Science News 28 June 2021 is a Canadian scientist who is a professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the Uni ...

Th
2017 Nobel Conference
is titled "Reproductive Technology: How Far Do We Go?" and took place October 3–4, 2017 in Saint Peter, Minnesota at

. Lecturers include: *

Jad Abumrad Jad Nicholas Abumrad ( ar, جاد نيكولاس أبومراد; born April 18, 1973) is an American radio host, composer, and producer. He is the founder and former host of the syndicated public radio program ''Radiolab'' with Latif Nasser and ...

, founder and co-host of

Radiolab ''Radiolab'' is a radio program produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City, and broadcast on public radio stations in the United States. The show is nationally syndicated and is available as a podcast. Live shows were first offe ...

. * Alison Murdoch, Professor of

Reproductive Medicine Reproductive medicine is a branch of medicine concerning the male and female reproductive systems. It encompasses a variety of reproductive conditions, their prevention and assessment, as well as their subsequent treatment and prognosis. Reprodu ...

Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is ...

, past member of the

Nuffield Council on Bioethics The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is a UK-based independent charitable body, which examines and reports on bioethical issues raised by new advances in biological and medical research. Established in 1991, the Council is funded by the Nuffield F ...

; one of the first people in the world to have been granted approval to clone human embryos for the purpose of research. *

Ruha Benjamin Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist and a Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. The primary focus of her work is the relationship between innovation and equity, particularly focusing on the intersection of r ...

, Sociologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

. * Diana Blithe, program director for the Male Contraceptive Development Program at the

National Institutes of Health The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...

. *

Charis Thompson Charis Thompson, Lady Campbell is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics (se. Prior to that she was a professor of Gender and Women's Studies in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California at Berke ...

, Professor of Sociology,

London School of Economics and Political Science , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. 2016 - ''In Search of Economic Balance'' Lecturers included: *

Dan Ariely Dan Ariely ( he, דן אריאלי; born April 29, 1967) is an Israeli-American professor and author. He serves as a James B. Duke Professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University. Ariely is the founder of the research inst ...

, Ph.D, Behavioral Economist and chief behavioral economist for Qapital. *

Paul Collier Sir Paul Collier, (born 23 April 1949) is a British development economist who serves as the Professor of Economics and Public Policy in the Blavatnik School of Government and the director of the International Growth Centre. He currently is a ...

, Ph.D, British Economist, director of the

International Growth Centre The International Growth Centre (IGC) is an economic research centre based at the London School of Economics, operated in partnership with University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government. The centre was launched in December 2008 and is fund ...

, and former director of the Development Research Group of the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Interna ...

Deirdre McCloskey Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (born Donald N. McCloskey; September 11, 1942 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is the distinguished professor of economics, history, english, and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is also adjunct pr ...

, Ph.D, Economic Historian *

Orley Ashenfelter Orley Clark Ashenfelter (born October 18, 1942) is an American economist and the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His areas of specialization include labor economics, econometrics, and law and economics. H ...

, Ph.D, Economist, former director of the Office of Evaluation of the

U.S. Department of Labor The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government. It is responsible for the administration of federal laws governing occupational safety and health, wage and hour standards, unemploym ...

and professor of economics at

Joerg Rieger Joerg Michael Rieger (born 1963) is a German professor of Christian theology whose work emphasizes economic justice and political movements. Rieger is also an ordained minister of the United Methodist Church. Life and career Born on August 3, ...

, Ph.D, Theologian *

John A. List John August List (born September 25, 1968) is an American economist known for establishing Field experiment, field experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis. He works at the University of Chicago, where he serves as Kenneth C. Griffin ...

, Ph.D, Economist, Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

.
Chris Farrell
Economic Journalist and economics editor for Marketplace Money on

American Public Media American Public Media (APM) is an American company that produces and distributes public radio programs in the United States, the second largest company of its type after NPR. Its non-profit parent, American Public Media Group, also owns and oper ...

. 2015 - ''Addiction: Exploring the Science and Experience of an Equal Opportunity Condition'' Lecturers included: *

Owen Flanagan Owen Flanagan (born 1949) is the James B. Duke University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus at Duke University. Flanagan has done work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social s ...

, Ph.D, James B. Duke Professor and Faculty Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University * Eric R. Kandel, MD, Neuropsychiatrist and 2000 Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine *

Carl Hart Carl L. Hart (born October 30, 1966) is an American psychologist and neuroscientist, working as the Mamie Phipps Clark Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University. Hart is known for his research on drug abuse and drug addic ...

, Ph.D, Neuroscientist *

Denise Kandel Denise Kandel (; née Bystryn; born February 27, 1933) is an American medical sociologist and epidemiologist, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Psychiatry at Columbia University and Head of the Department of Epidemiology of Substance Abuse a ...

, Ph.D, Medical sociologist * Marc David Lewis, Ph.D, Developmental neuroscientist *

, Ph.D, Economist * Sheigla B. Murphy, Ph.D, Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Studies at the Institute for Scientific Analysis 2014 - ''Where does Science Go from Here?'' 2014StevenChu

Lecturers included: *

Steven Weinberg Steven Weinberg (; May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interactio ...

, Ph.D, Theoretical physicist and 1979 Nobel laureate in physics * Sir Harold W. Kroto, Ph.D, 1996 Nobel laureate in chemistry *

Steven Chu Steven ChuUnited States Secretary of Energy The United States secretary of energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the Cabinet of the United States, and fifteenth in the United States presidential line of succession, presidential line of succession. The po ...

and 1997 Nobel laureate in physics *

Antonio Damasio Antonio Damasio ( pt, António Damásio) is a Portuguese-American neuroscientist. He is currently the David Dornsife Chair in Neuroscience, as well as Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neurology, at the University of Southern California, ...

, MD, PhD, Neuroscientist and head of the

Brain and Creativity Institute Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) is a research unit of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California, which aims to "gather new knowledge about the human emotions, decision-making, memory, and communication ...

Harry B. Gray Harry Barkus Gray (born November 14, 1935) is the Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology. Career Gray received his B.S. in chemistry from Western Kentucky University in 1957. He began his work in inorgan ...

, PhD, Electron transfer (ET) chemist *

Freeman Dyson Freeman John Dyson (15 December 1923 – 28 February 2020) was an English-American theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his works in quantum field theory, astrophysics, random matrices, mathematical formulation of quantum m ...

, FRS, Theoretical physicist and mathematician *

Patricia Smith Churchland Patricia Smith Churchland (born 16 July 1943) is a Canadian-American analytic philosophy, analytic philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the ...

, Neurophilosopher 2013 - ''The Universe at its Limits'' Lecturers included: * Frank A. Wilczek, Ph.D, American theoretical physicist,

Mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

, 2004 Nobel laureate in physics, discovered

time crystal In condensed matter physics, a time crystal is a quantum system of particles whose lowest-energy state is one in which the particles are in repetitive motion. The system cannot lose energy to the environment and come to rest because it is alre ...

in 2012. *

Samuel C.C. Ting Samuel Chao Chung Ting (, born January 27, 1936) is a Chinese-American physicist who, with Burton Richter, received the Nobel Prize in 1976 for discovering the Subatomic particle, subatomic J/ψ particle. More recently he has been the principal ...

, Ph.D, American theoretical physicist and 1976 Nobel laureate in physics for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. * George F. Smoot III, Ph.D, 2006 Nobel laureate in physics * Alexei V. Filippenko, Ph.D, American astrophysicist on

supernovae A supernova is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star. It has the plural form supernovae or supernovas, and is abbreviated SN or SNe. This transient astronomical event occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when a ...

and

active galaxies An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a compact region at the center of a galaxy that has a much-higher-than-normal luminosity over at least some portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with characteristics indicating that the luminosity is not pr ...

optical Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultraviole ...

ultraviolet Ultraviolet (UV) is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelength from 10 nanometer, nm (with a corresponding frequency around 30 Hertz, PHz) to 400 nm (750 Hertz, THz), shorter than that of visible light, but longer than ...

, and

near-infrared Infrared (IR), sometimes called infrared light, is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than those of Light, visible light. It is therefore invisible to the human eye. IR is generally understood to encompass wavelengths from ...

wavelengths. * S. James Gates Jr., Ph.D, theoretical physicist known for work on

supersymmetry In a supersymmetric theory the equations for force and the equations for matter are identical. In theoretical and mathematical physics, any theory with this property has the principle of supersymmetry (SUSY). Dozens of supersymmetric theories e ...

supergravity In theoretical physics, supergravity (supergravity theory; SUGRA for short) is a modern field theory that combines the principles of supersymmetry and general relativity; this is in contrast to non-gravitational supersymmetric theories such as ...

, and

superstring theory Superstring theory is an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory by modeling them as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric strings. 'Superstring theory' is a shorthand for supersymmetric string theor ...

. * Lawrence M. Krauss, Ph.D, American-Canadian

theoretical physicist Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experimen ...

and

cosmologist Cosmology () is a branch of physics and metaphysics dealing with the nature of the universe. The term ''cosmology'' was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount's ''Glossographia'', and in 1731 taken up in Latin by German philosopher ...

* Tara G. Shears, Ph.D, Physicist Other past Nobel Conferences include: * 2012 - ''Our Global Ocean'' * 2011 - ''The Brain and Being Human'' * 2010 - ''Making Food Good''

2000s

* 2009 - ''H₂O Uncertain Resource'' * 2008 - ''Who Were the First Humans?'' * 2007 - '' Heating Up: The Energy Debate'' * 2006 - ''Medicine: Prescription for Tomorrow'' * 2005 - ''The Legacy of

Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...

'' * 2004 - ''The Science of Aging'' * 2003 - ''The Story of Life'' * 2002 - ''The Nature of Nurture'' * 2001 - ''What is still to be discovered?'' 2000 - ''

Globalization Globalization, or globalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is the process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide. The term ''globalization'' first appeared in the early 20t ...

2000: Economic Prospects and Challenges'' Lecturers included: * Robert A. Mundell, Ph.D, Economist and 1999 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences *

Joseph Stiglitz Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, and a full professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the Joh ...

, Ph.D, former Chief Economist of the

and recipient of the

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel ( sv, Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award administered ...

in 2001 *

Jeffrey D. Sachs Jeffrey David Sachs () (born 5 November 1954) is an American economist, academic, public policy analyst, and former director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, where he holds the title of University Professor. He is known for his work ...

, PH.D, Economist, since 2017 serves as special adviser to the

United Nations Secretary-General The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or SG) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. The role of the secretary-ge ...

António Guterres António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres ( , ; born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat. Since 2017, he has served as secretary-general of the United Nations, the ninth person to hold this title. A member of the Portuguese Socia ...

. * Jagdish Natwarlal Bhagwati, PH.D, Economist *

Amitai Etzioni Amitai Etzioni (; Werner Falk; born 4 January 1929) is a German-born Israeli-American sociologist, best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism. He founded the Communitarian Network, a non-profit, non-partisan organization ...

, PH.D, former senior adviser to the

White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800. ...

1990s

* 1999 - ''

Genetics Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) It is an important branch in biology because heredity is vital to organisms' evolution. Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Augustinian friar wor ...

in the New Millennium'' * 1998 - ''

Virus A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea. Since Dmitri Ivanovsky's 1 ...

: The Human Connection'' * 1997 - ''Unveiling the

Solar System The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Solar S ...

: 30 Years of Exploration'' * 1996 - ''Apes at the End of an Age:

Primate Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...

Language and Behavior in the '90s'' * 1995 - ''The New Shape of Matter: Materials Challenge Science'' * 1994 - ''Unlocking the Brain: Progress in

Neuroscience Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, anatomy, molecular biology, development ...

'' * 1993 - ''Nature Out of Balance: The New

Ecology Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

'' * 1992 - ''

Immunity Immunity may refer to: Medicine * Immunity (medical), resistance of an organism to infection or disease * ''Immunity'' (journal), a scientific journal published by Cell Press Biology * Immune system Engineering * Radiofrequence immunity desc ...

: The Battle Within'' * 1991 - ''The Evolving Cosmos'' * 1990 - ''

Chaos Chaos or CHAOS may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media Fictional elements * Chaos (''Kinnikuman'') * Chaos (''Sailor Moon'') * Chaos (''Sesame Park'') * Chaos (''Warhammer'') * Chaos, in ''Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy'' * Cha ...

: The New Science''

1980s

* 1989 - ''The End of Science?'' * 1988 - ''The Restless Earth'' * 1987 - ''Evolution of Sex'' * 1986 - ''The Legacy of

Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, ( ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originally trained in m ...

'' * 1985 - ''The Impact of Science on Society'' * 1984 - ''How We Know: The Inner Frontiers of Cognitive Science'' * 1983 - ''Manipulating Life'' * 1982 - '' Darwin's Legacy'' * 1981 - ''The Place of Mind in Nature'' * 1980 - ''The

Aesthetic Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed th ...

Dimension of Science''

1970s

* 1979 - ''The Future of the

Market Economy A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand, where all suppliers and consumers ...

'' * 1978 - ''Global Resources: Perspectives and Alternatives'' * 1977 - ''The Nature of Life'' * 1976 - ''The Nature of the Physical Universe'' * 1975 - ''The Future of Science'' * 1974 - ''The Quest for Peace'' * 1973 - ''The Destiny of Women'' * 1972 - ''The End of Life'' * 1971 - ''Shaping the Future'' * 1970 - ''Creativity''

1960s

* 1969 - ''Communication'' * 1968 - ''The Uniqueness of Man'' * 1967 - ''The Human Mind'' * 1966 - ''The Control of the Environment''{{cite journal , date=May 12, 1967 , title=Taking Arms Against a Sea of Trouble , url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.156.3776.810 , journal=Science , volume=156 , issue=3776 , pages=810-811 * 1965 - ''

and the Future of Man''

External links

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* Archival finding aid for the collection ''Nobel Conference. Nobel Conference Collection, 1965-Ongoing.'' GACA Collection 92. Gustavus Adolphus College Archives, St. Peter, Minnesot

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