Portrait of Charles K. Kao.
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Portrait of Charles K. Kao.
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Jack W. Szostak answers phone calls after the announcement of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Group photo of the 1993 Nobel Prize laureates.
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The Nobel Prize medal.
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Portrait of Ales Bialiatski.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee received 351 candidates for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize. 92 of these are organisations.
Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony 2021 in the Oslo City Hall in Norway.
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Did you know that there is no public list of the current year’s nominees for the peace prize? The complete list of nominees of any year’s prizes is not disclosed for 50 years. The same goes for all the prize categories. Learn more about the nomination process in a this Q&A.
The nomination process for Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
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On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will in Paris, France. The Swedish dynamite millionaire, who thought that his invention would end all wars, had now realised that it was a very deadly product. Wanting to make amends, he did what no man of such wealth had done before …
On 10 December 1901 the first Nobel Prizes were awarded, in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. Read more about the first prizes.
Chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel left 31 million SEK (today about 265 million dollar) to fund the Nobel Prizes. Read more about his life and work.
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The museum showcases the discoveries and creativity of the Nobel Prize laureates.
Photo: Åke Eson Lindman
The story of each peace laureate is told at the museum.
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Harry Markowitz passed away on 22 June, age 96. He was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for “pioneering work in the theory of financial economics”.