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speaking of award certificates, does this image come to your mind——

after opening it, there is a piece of paper like this:

sorry, the certificate we introduced today is as follows:

is it beautiful? immortal or not?

in response, the nobel prize organizing committee smiled slightly.

the certificate of the nobel prize is very particular. each year,the awarding organization invites artists to discuss, how to make a personalized and beautiful certificate for the winner. it will display the person's research results, or express this meaning in an artistic and metaphorical way. for the winner himself, it was a big surprise when he opened the certificate!

nobel certificates are not issued on the spot;at the nobel dinner every december, the king of sweden personally hands over the medal, certificate and prize certificate to the recipient.。

in addition, the certificate of the literary award will be installed inhandmade boxinside, the box has the winner's initials printed on it.

all certificates are made in leather covers using special book-making techniques. the physics prize has a blue cover, the chemistry and medicine prize has a red cover, the economics prize has a brown cover, and the literature prize...the winner can choose himself.

it’s not bad to have someone specially come to draw and write for you~

let’s take a look at some ancient certificates first:

this is the winner of the 1962 physiology/medicine prizefrancis crickcertificate of francis harry compton crick. creek isdiscover dna structureone of the two. dna is the spiral of life. the man in the painting is also holding a shiny thing that looks like a spiral in his hand, but... the structure seems to be wrong...

thiswinner of the 1918 nobel prize in chemistryfritz haber(fritz haber) (the year 1919 written above is when he actually received the award), hisammonia production using the haber-bosch processthe formula is still written above. then, the lump floating on 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 believe that the haber-bosch method feeds half of the world's population today.

but it is a pity that he participated in the production of poison gas during world war i. his original words: "in times of peace, a scientist belongs to the whole world, but in times of war, he belongs to his country." it is also very controversial.

fleming, discoverer of penicillin（Alexander Fleming）, chain（Ernst boris chain) andflory（Howard Walter Florey) certificate. the symbol of medicine that cures diseases and saves lives is in the upper right corner of the left page of the certificate. at the bottom of the picture are doctors on one side and soldiers on the other. during world war ii, penicillin allowed many people to escape from infections.

however, in the early days, there were also illustrations on some certificates that had no special meaning, just beautiful birds, flowers, bottles, and houses.

1911,marie curiechemistry prize certificate of maria skłodowska curie. the neat and exquisite decoration, as well as books, scales and other related symbols, indicate that the winner is a scientist.

because it was discoveredautoimmunity, phagocytosisand the award-winningpaul ehrlich（Paul Ehrlich）, his certificate is like this, the picture isa very beautiful and vibrant natural environment.

einsteincertificate, the illustrations are also simple in style.

"cat abuser"erwin schrödingercertificate from (erwin schrödinger). 1933schrödinger equationlet him share this prize with paul dirac. the reason why the picture is so blank may be because the artists at the time didn't know how to represent quantum mechanics - they wouldn't have drawn a cat anyway, so don't even think about it.

later,artist beginscreate paintings related to the nobel prize theme specifically for the winner., and there will also be well-known calligraphers handwriting the artistic words on the certificate.

artists and calligraphers only know who won the prize, what to draw, and how to draw it only after the winners are announced in october every year. they have to be ready before december 10, so time is still very urgent. therefore, sometimes illustrations do not have an obvious theme, but "feeling" and "atmosphere".just feel it。

noyori ryouji（Ryoji Noyori）, william knowles(william knowles) andbarry sharpless(k. barry sharpless), winner of the 2001 nobel prize in chemistry for his contributions to asymmetric synthesis. this illustration is very straightforward, with symmetrical design and asymmetrical details. i personally think it looks pretty and you can copy it.

the first chinese nobel prize winneryang zhenningcertificate.he died in 1957 due to“parity is not conserved"theoryreceived the nobel prize in physics for his contributions. the "conservation" of particles and mirrors with an abstract painting styleconstitute the main elements.

father of fiber optic communicationsgao kun, in 2009 because of "breakthrough achievements in the field of optical communications that transmit light through fibers” won the nobel prize in physics. his certificate is very simple: the painting on the left is from the artist sture berglund, depicts the tranquility and monotony of the gulf of bodnia between sweden and finland. i wonder if it is related to "submarine optical cable"? in other words, optical fiber also sends information to the monotonous world?

eric cornell(eric cornell) because"bose-einstein condensate"whose research won the 2001 physics prize. this condensed state is a "phase", gaseous, superfluid, and cornell studies bose-einstein condensates in gases diluted with alkali metal atoms.

this is the distribution showing the speed of rubidium atoms. the illustration shows this, right?

this is the 2020 nobel prize in chemistry certificate. the winners arejennifer doudna（Jennifer A. Doudna）和emmanuel charpentier（Emmanuelle Charpentier），theydeveloped a method for genome editing。

famousroger penrose(roger penrose) won the nobel prize in physics in 2020 and wonthe reason for the award isblack hole formation is found to be a prediction of general relativity. his credentials are stunning: lonely human structures, and vast starry skies.

of course, there are also those who are not too careless... not every winner has an artist to draw, for examplechina’s first nobel prize winner in sciencetu youyouon the certificate, only a calligrapher was invited to write. william c. campbell, who shared the awardand satoshi ōmura, their certificates only have nobel faces.

three scientists who won the nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 2020harvey alt（Harvey J. Alter）、michael horton(michael houghton), andcharles rice（Charles M. Rice），their certificates are also so simple. to know that they areawarded for discovering hepatitis c virus, the reason is so realistic and easy to understand, i don’t know why there are no illustrations.

speaking of science awards, let’s take a look at what the certificates for literature awards look like.

personally, i feel that the literature award is the most artistic and best able to convey the theme of the winner - compared to cutting-edge science, understanding literature may be relatively simple.

1978 literature prize winner, jewish writerisaac singer(isaac bashevis singer) certificate. the print-style design incorporates many elements, including the cultural symbol of the star of david (center’s six-pointed star), elements from singer’s other works, new york, nazis, etc.

1954,ernest hemingwayliterary award certificate from ernest hemingway. did you see what was painted? "the old man and the sea" oh!

chilean poetpablo neruda(pablo neruda), whowon the nobel prize for literature in 1971.

2012 literature prize winnermo yanthe certificate depicts a vast and beautiful countryside.

2016 literature prize winnerhug polyesterbob dylan(bob dylan) certificate, showing a hand holding a lamp. in the 1960s he foundedhe wrote many beautiful and powerful protest ballads, the most famous of which is "blowing in the wind." for the people of that era, his songs were a beacon of light.

economics prize 2008paul krugman(paul krugman) certificate. the reason for his award isanalysis 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).

economist, laureate 1998amartya sen(amartya sen)’s certificate. his gainthe reason for the award iscontributed to several important issues in welfare economics. what this illustration shows is a peaceful and peaceful scene (forcible explanation).

1994,john nash jr.(john forbes nash jr) economics award citation.the reason why he won this award is,he made pioneering contributions to the equilibrium analysis theory of non-cooperative games.. please, can one of you interpret this illustration?

after reading these nobel prize certificates, do you have the urge to study hard, win a nobel prize in the future, and let an artist draw 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 a tribute of art to science; even science needs art, which is a way for us to better understand science.