When it comes to the award certificate, do you have this image in your mind——
After opening, it is a piece of paper like this:
Sorry, the certificate we introduced today is as follows:
The certificates of the three winners who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 (swipe left to view); the award-winning research is about tools for DNA repair (what is a tool for repairing DNA? Click on the right ? 2015 Nobel Prize: Humans peeked at what cells are used for A toolbox for DNA repair丨nobelprize.org
Beautiful or not? Fairy or not?
In this regard, the Nobel Prize Organizing Committee smiled.
Hand drawn to show sincerity!
The Nobel Prize certificate is very particular. Every year, the awarding agency invites artists to discuss how to make a personalized and beautiful certificate for the winners. The above will show the results of this person’s research, or express this meaning in an artistic, metaphorical way. For the winners themselves, the moment they opened the certificate was a big surprise!
The Nobel certificate is not issued on the spot, but at the Nobel Banquet in December every year, the King of Sweden will personally hand over the medal, certificate and prize certificate to the recipient of the award .
In addition, the Literary Prize certificate is packaged in a handmade box with the recipient’s initials printed on it.
All certificates are made on the inside of the leather cover using a special bookmaking process. The physics prize is blue, chemistry and medicine are red, economics is brown, and literature…the winner can choose.
Someone specially come to draw + write for you, not bad~
Early days: the beauty of classical simplicity
Let’s take a look at some ancient certificates:
This is a certificate from Francis Harry Compton Crick, winner of the 1962 Physiology/Medicine Prize . Crick was one of two men who discovered the structure of DNA . DNA is the spiral of life, and the person in the painting is also holding something that glows like a spiral in his hand, but…the structure doesn’t seem to be right…
This is Fritz Haber , the 1918 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1919 is written above when he actually won the prize), his Haber-Bosch process The formula for producing ammonia is also written above. Then, the lump floating on the top of the illustration should be ammonia gas.
The lush plants in the picture also hint at the contribution of his invention to mankind: the world’s annual production of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer currently exceeds 100 million tons. Some argue that the Haber-Bosch method feeds half of the world’s population today.
But unfortunately, he was involved in the manufacture of poison gas during World War I. His original words: “In times of peace, a scientist belongs to the world, but in times of war, he belongs to his country”, which is also very controversial.
Credentials of the discoverers of penicillin by Alexander Fleming , Ernst Boris Chain and Howard Walter Florey . The symbol of medicine that cures and saves lives is on the upper right corner of the left page of the certificate, with doctors on one side and soldiers on the other side. During World War II, penicillin allowed many people to escape from infection.
However, in the early days, the illustrations on some certificates had no special meaning, just beautiful birds, flowers, bottles, and houses.
1911 Certificate of the Prize in Chemistry from Maria Skłodowska Curie . The exquisite decorations are evenly stable, and there are also related symbols such as books and scales, indicating that the winner is a scientist.
Paul Ehrlich , who won the prize for his discovery of autoimmunity, phagocytosis , has this credential, painting a beautiful, vibrant natural environment.
I can’t help but gossip. Mechnikov, who won the award with Ehrlich, also did immunization before before turning to the field of microbiology. He found that certain strains of bacteria were “healthy” and could prolong life. Then a Japanese scientist fiddled with a kind of lactic acid bacteria and added it to the drink. That kind of thing, now called – Yakult.
Einstein ‘s certificate , the illustration is also simple style.
The certificate of Erwin Schrödinger, the “cat-buster” . He shared the prize with Paul Dirac for the Schrödinger equation in 1933. The picture is so blank, probably because the artists at the time didn’t know how to express quantum mechanics – they wouldn’t draw a cat anyway, don’t think about it.
Today’s Science Award Certificates:
Art is a feeling…
Later, artists began to create paintings related to the theme of the Nobel Prize for the winners themselves , and there will also be well-known calligraphers writing the artistic words on the certificates.
Artists and calligraphers don’t know who won the prize, what to paint, and how to paint it only after the winners are announced in October each year. They have to be ready before December 10, so the time is still quite urgent. Therefore, sometimes illustrations do not have obvious themes, but “feelings” and “atmospheres”, just feel .
Figure丨nobelprize.org
A certificate from Isamu Akas aki , who received the 2014 Physics Prize for his blue-emitting LED . His name is written in color, while the illustrations are blue-gray watercolor brushstrokes, and the street is lined with bright shop windows—blue LEDs provide an energy-efficient, bright light source. (Click here to review: Blue LED lights up the world )
The author of Isamu Akasaki’s certificate illustration also drew the 2013 Chemistry Prize. Martin Karplus was awarded for ” creating multiscale models of complex chemical systems “. What the artist meant was probably to use leaves of different sizes to express “scale”. (Click here to review: Review of the Interpretation Post of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology )
Figure丨nobelprize.org
Certificate from 2013 Physics Laureate Peter Higgs . You’ve probably heard of the ” Higg boson ,” an elementary particle in the Standard Model. The deep blue in the certificate is a metaphor for the universe, and the particle that seems to have mass is falling into the deep space. I personally think it is quite beautiful, a very good modern art painting. (Poke here to review: 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics In-depth Interpretation: “God Particle” Higgs Particle )
Swipe left to view three certificates丨nobelprize.org
Ryoji Noyori , William Knowles and K. Barry Sharpless were awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on asymmetric synthesis . This illustration is very straightforward, with symmetrical design and asymmetrical details. Personally, I think it is very beautiful. You can copy it.
Figure丨nobelprize.org
The certificate of Yang Zhenning , the first Chinese Nobel Prize winner. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957 for his contribution to the theory of “parity non -conservation”. The “conservation” of particles and mirrors in the style of abstract painting constitute the main elements.
Kao Kun , the father of optical fiber communication, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009 for ” breakthrough achievements in the field of optical communication of optical transmission through fibers “. His credentials are quite simple: the painting on the left, by artist Søture Berglund, depicts the stillness and monotony of the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland. I don’t know if it is related to the “submarine optical cable”? Or, optical fiber has also sent information to the monotonous world?
Eric Cornell won the 2001 Physics Prize for his work on “Bose-Einstein condensates.” This condensate is a “phase”, gaseous, superfluid, and Cornell studies (made) Bose-Einstein condensates in a gas diluted with alkali metal atoms.
This is the distribution of the velocity of the rubidium atoms. The illustration shows that, right?
Figure丨nobelprize.org
Certificate from David J. Thoules , 2016 Nobel Laureate in Physics . He shared that year’s Physics Prize with Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz for the theoretical discovery of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter . Very abstract, isn’t it? This illustration is also very abstract, but it is really beautiful. (Poke here to review: Tell you in “human words”: What is the topological phase transition that won the Nobel Prize? )
Swipe left to view丨nobelprize.org
This is the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for developing a method for genome editing .
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The famous Roger Penrose won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020 for the discovery that the formation of black holes is a prediction of general relativity . His credentials are beautiful: the lone human building, and the vast starry sky.
Of course, there are also some who are not too concerned… Not every winner has an artist to paint. For example, on the certificate of Tu Youyou , China’s first Nobel Prize winner in science , only calligraphers were invited to write. William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura, who shared the award, also have only Nobel pictures on their certificates.
Tu Youyou’s award certificate丨nobelprize.org
Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton , and Charles M. Rice, three scientists awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , with their credentials It’s as simple as that. You must know that they won the award because of the discovery of the hepatitis C virus . This reason is so realistic and easy to understand. I don’t know why there are no illustrations.
Charles Rice’s award certificate丨nobelprize.org
Literary Award Certificate:
See, what art has in common
Speaking of science awards, let’s take a look at what the certificate of merit for the literary award looks like.
Personally, I think the literature award is the most artistic and can best convey the theme of the winners-compared to cutting-edge science, understanding literature may be relatively simple.
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Certificate from 1978 Literary Prize winner, Jewish author Isaac Bashevis Singer. The print-style design incorporates many elements, including the cultural icon of the Star of David (the hexagram in the middle ), elements from Singer’s other works, New York, the Nazis, and more.
1954, Ernest Hemingway’s Literary Prize Certificate. Can you see what is being drawn? “The Old Man and the Sea” Oh!
Certificate of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda , who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
Figure丨nobelprize.org
In 2012, the certificate of Mo Yan , winner of the Literature Prize , painted a vast and beautiful countryside.
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The 2016 Literary Prize winner hugs a polyester Bob Dylan certificate, depicting a hand with a lamp. He wrote many beautiful and powerful protest ballads in the 1960s , most notably Blowing in The Wind. His songs were a beacon to the general public of that era.
economics:
The artist said I did my best…
Economics award certificate, with the most “I don’t know what’s going on” illustration. Let me try to interpret it for you.
The 2008 Economics Prize Paul Krugman’s certificate . He was awarded for his analysis of trade patterns and regions of international economic activity . The geometry and mirrors in the illustration may be a metaphor for the concept of “model” (forced interpretation).
Certificate from Amartya Sen , Economist, 1998 Award Winner . He was awarded for his contributions to several important questions in welfare economics . This illustration shows a peaceful and peaceful scene (forcibly explained).
In 1994, John Forbes Nash Jr’s Economics Award. He received this award for his pioneering contributions to the theory of equilibrium analysis of non-cooperative games . I beg you, who will interpret this illustration?
After reading these Nobel Prize certificates, do you have the urge to study hard, win the Nobel Prize in the future, and let the artist paint a beautiful illustration for you?
In fact, art and science can be combined. These works are not only the author’s personal collection, but also art’s tribute to science; even science needs art, which is a way to let us better understand science.
The 2022 Nobel Prizes will be announced one after another from October 3 (today) . This year, Nutshell will still wait for the results of the Nobel Prize with you, and we will release the most reliable interpretation of the Nobel Prize as soon as possible.
Come and pay attention, don’t miss it!
Author: Li Zi Li Zi SMS, Li Xiaokui
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