Press Release

Announcements of the 2005 Nobel Prizes and The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

August 18, 2005

 

The Nobel Foundation wishes to inform you that the Nobel Prize-Awarding Institutions have set the following dates for their announcement of the respective Nobel Laureates for 2005:

Monday, October 3 11:30 a.m. at the earliest	The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Wallenbergsalen, Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1, Stockholm
Tuesday, October 4 11:45 a.m. at the earliest	The Nobel Prize in Physics The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sessionssalen, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm
Wednesday, October 5 11:45 a.m. at the earliest	The Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sessionssalen, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm
Friday, October 7 11:00 a.m.	The Nobel Peace Prize The Norwegian Nobel Committee, The Norwegian Nobel Institute, Store Sal, Drammensveien 19, Oslo
Monday, October 10 1:00 p.m. at the earliest	The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sessionssalen, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm

 

In keeping with tradition, the Swedish Academy will set the date for its announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature later.

Each 2005 Nobel Prize will amount to 10.0 million Swedish kronor (2004: MSEK 10.0). In other words the sum of the Nobel Prizes (Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace) will be MSEK 50.0. In addition, The Bank of Sweden (Sveriges Riksbank) Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel will amount to MSEK 10.0.

For further information, please contact Annika Ekdahl at the press office, phone: +46 8 663 14 70
e-mail: annika.ekdahl@nobel.se.

Stockholm, August 18, 2005

THE NOBEL FOUNDATION