How much do you know about the Nobel Prize medal? During his banquet speech, 1999 chemistry laureate Ahmed Zewail spoke about his Nobel Prize medal as well as the science and history depicted on it. Zewail was awarded the chemistry prize “for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy.” | Nobel Prize

Marie Curie was a Nobel Laureate of many firsts: the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first person to be awarded the prize twice and still the only person to receive the prize in two different scientific fields. She received the news that she was to be awarded her second Nobel Prize on her 44th birthday - a special present for a very impressive scientist. | Nobel Prize