Overview
- The Nobel Museum on December 9 publicly showed items from this year’s Japanese laureates and past winners in the run‑up to the award ceremony.
- Chemistry laureate Susumu Kitagawa contributed a sample of metal–organic framework (MOF) material reflecting his prizewinning research.
- Physiology or Medicine laureate Shimon Sakaguchi donated an illustration of a personified regulatory T cell from the popular manga Cells at Work!.
- The donations were made at the start of Nobel Week on December 6 as part of the museum’s tradition of collecting laureate artifacts.
- The museum also highlighted earlier Japanese contributions, including Shinya Yamanaka’s lab equipment and books, Yoshinori Ohsumi’s self‑modeled figurine, and photomultiplier tubes linked to Masatoshi Koshiba and Takaaki Kajita; meanwhile, Kitagawa’s December 8 Stockholm lecture drew praise from former student Ryotaro Matsuda for stressing science’s return to society.