- How did Lenard's later political career diverge from the science that won him the prize?
Genocide and Mass Atrocity
Episodes of mass violence and their historical record.
- How did Hamsun's later sympathy for National Socialism complicate his literary legacy?
- What did the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service require, and who did it target?
- Why couldn't Ossietzky travel to Oslo to accept his Nobel Peace Prize?
- What happened to Ossietzky after he received the Peace Prize?
- Why was Butenandt unable to accept his Nobel Prize when it was awarded in 1939?
- What forced Domagk to delay accepting his Nobel Prize until after the war?
- How did the Sharpeville massacre earlier in 1960 shape the context in which Lutuli's prize was awarded?
- Why did Herzberg have to flee Germany, and how did he end up at Canada's National Research Council?
- What happened when Brandt visited the Warsaw Ghetto memorial in December 1970?
- How did Brandt's wartime exile in Scandinavia shape his later approach to postwar reconciliation?
- What happened to Maya civilians during Guatemala's internal armed conflict?
- Why was Pamuk prosecuted by the Turkish government the year before he won the Nobel?
- How did Nadia Murad's experience under ISIS captivity shape her advocacy work?