“Keep thinking, don’t accept easy answers.” 2019 laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo were awarded the economic sciences prize for developing new approaches to alleviate global poverty. Listen to their best advice for students in the field.

Nobel Prize laureate Abdus Salam at the opening of @ictpnews building on 9 June 1968. Salam donated all his #NobelPrize money to benefit physicists in developing countries – one of the missions of the International Center for Theoretical Physics, which he founded.

#OTD in 1843 a pioneering peace activist was born: Bertha von Suttner. She was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (in fact, she's credited as the inspiration behind the creation of the prize) and became the second female Nobel Prize laureate after Marie Curie.

“It was our teacher of arts who cultivated that practical sense and helped to develop creativity and team spirit within the class community, inspiring us to theater and artistic performances even outside school hours.” - from Georg Bednorz's biography: bit.ly/3P2wMhy

"Literature speaks with everyone individually – it is personal property that stays inside our heads. And nothing speaks to us as forcefully as a book, which expects nothing in return, other than that we think and feel." - 2009 literature laureate Herta Müller