Nobel Winners Draw Their Discoveries

While this year's winners gather in Stockholm, some earlier Nobel laureates decode their breakthroughs with crayon and cardboard.

By Josie Glausiusz
Dec 4, 2006 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 6:44 AM
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Theodor Hänsch's illustration of his work using lasers to elucidate the color and fine structure of atoms. | Theodor Hänsch

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Can the prizewinning work of a lifetime be scrunched into a few scribbles and squiggles? Photographer Volker Steger thinks it can—and he has persuaded a group of Nobel science laureates to pick up his daughter's crayons and draw their discoveries on sheets of white cardboard.

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