27/03/2008 :: The Abel Prize 2008 is shared between the American professor in mathematics, John Griggs Thompson at the University of Florida in Gainsville, and the French mathematician, Jacques Tits with the Collége de France in Paris. + More

11/01/2007 :: New Norwegian surgical technology enables surgeons to navigate via a “GPS map” when operating in the abdominal region. + More

02/12/2006 :: HRH Crown Prince Haakon presented the NOK 4.5 million Holberg Prize to Professor Shmuel N. Eisenstadt at a ceremony in the Håkonshallen in Bergen on Wednesday 29 November. + More

10/10/2006 :: Norwegian palaeontologists have made a sensational discovery, currently drawing much international attention. A complete skeleton of a Pliosaurus, one of the largest-ever marine predators, has been discovered on Svalbard. These gigantic creatures, comparable in many respects to the Tyrannosaurus Rex, lived in the ocean 150 million years ago. + More

18/09/2006 :: The Board of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial Fund has decided to award the Holberg International Memorial Prize for 2006 for outstanding scholarly work in the arts and humanities, social science, law and theology to Professor Shmuel N. Eisenstadt. The prize is worth NOK 4.5 million. + More