ERC grantees Svante Pääbo, and Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger are amongst the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prizes. Join us for the Nobel week, which will be a celebration of scientific discovery and largely livestreamed.

See a selection of the online programme below - Nobel Prize lectures, Award ceremony and more:

Wednesday 7 December | 15:00 CET

Nobel Prize lecture in physiology or medicine

Svante Pääbo: ”The Neandertal Genome and the Evolution of Modern Humans”
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Thursday 8 December | 9:00 - 10:55 CET

Nobel Prize lectures in physics

Alongside their fellow laureate John F. Clauser, two ERC grantees will speak:
Alain Aspect: “From Einstein’s doubts to quantum technologies: non-locality a fruitful image”
Anton Zeilinger: “A Voyage through Quantum Wonderland”
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Friday 9 December | 9:30 – 16:00 CET

Nobel Week Dialogue - “The Future of Life”

ERC grantees 2021 Laureate Benjamin List and 2012 Laureate Serge Haroche take part along with other Nobel laureates.
Former ERC President Helga Nowotny also participates.
ERC Grantee Juleen Zierath from the Nobel Assembly is moderating.
Livestream and information

Saturday 10 December | 16:00 CET

Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Nobel Day

Laureates will receive their medals at the Prize Award Ceremony.
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After a hiatus because of the pandemic, the laureates will again gather in Stockholm during the Nobel week. Some of the last years’ winners will also attend.

Amongst the 2021 laureates are two ERC grantees. Giorgio Parisi, who jointly won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, commented last year: “The ERC is extremely important in the whole of Europe: it supports basic research that is the basis of future applications. In my case, most of the support in the last ten years came from the ERC.”

Benjamin List was jointly awarded the Chemistry Prize and also said: “To gain momentum, every good idea in science needs freedom and confidence. With its trust in my research and its generous funding, the ERC has been an incredible help to ignite the spark of Asymmetric Organocatalysis.”

In total twelve ERC grantees have gone on to win Nobel Prizes so far:

• Konstantin Novoselov was the first ERC grantee to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene. He held a Starting Grant and in 2010 was amongst the youngest Nobel prize winners in history.
   
• Serge Haroche, ERC Advanced Grant holder, was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems.
   
• Edvard I. Moser and May-Britt Moser, both ERC Advanced Grant holders, received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.
   
• Jean Tirole, ERC Advanced Grant holder, received the 2014 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work on examining competition, analysing how large companies should be regulated to prevent monopoly behaviour and protect consumers.
   
• Bernard Feringa, ERC Advanced Grant holder, received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
   
• Peter J. Ratcliffe, ERC Advanced Grant holder, received the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
   
• Giorgio Parisi, two-fold ERC Advanced Grant holder and funded for a decade, received the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics “for ground-breaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.”
   
• Benjamin List, two-fold ERC Advanced Grant holder and funded for a decade, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”.
   
• Svante Pääbo, two-fold ERC Advanced Grant holder and funded for a decade, won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.
   
• Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger, both ERC Advanced Grant holder, won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.
   

In addition, the ERC has funded several researchers who were already Nobel laureates when they won their ERC grants.