A model donated to the Nobel Museum showing the molecular structure of haemoglobin, discovered by 1962 Chemistry Laureate Max Perutz
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Physiology or Medicine - Monday 1 October, 11:30 a.m. at the earliest
Physics - Tuesday 2 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest
Chemistry - Wednesday 3 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest
Peace - Friday 5 October, 11:00 a.m.
Economic Sciences - Monday 8 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest
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The Swedish Academy has decided to postpone the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, with the intention of awarding it in 2019.
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Chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel left 31 million SEK (today about 265 million dollars) to fund the Nobel Prizes.
When Alfred was five years old his father Immanuel, an inventor and builder, moved to St. Petersburg. Alfred joined him a few years later.
Based on Alfred’s work and patents a whole new industry developed. Within ten years, 16 explosives producing factories had been founded in 14 countries.
In his will of 27 November 1895, signed in Paris, Alfred Nobel specified that the bulk of his fortune should be used for prizes.
See the full list of all Nobel Laureates, awarded for "the greatest benefit to mankind".
Eleven laureates were awarded Nobel Prizes in 2017. See a short presentation of them here.
See the list of all women awarded a Nobel Prize or a Prize in Economic Sciences so far.
Youngest Nobel Laureate ever is Malala Yousafzai. She was 17 years old when she was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Tu Youyou, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015
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James Mirrlees passed away on 29 August. He was was awarded the 1996 Prize in Economic Sciences for making fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information.
The former UN Secretary General was awarded the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize thanks to his work for a better organised and more peaceful world. Kofi Annan passed away on 18 August in Bern, Switzerland, aged 80.
Literature Laureate V. S. Naipaul passed away on 11 August. He was awarded the Nobel Prize "for having united perceptive narrative and incorruptible scrutiny in works that compel us to see the presence of suppressed histories”.
Arvid Carlsson was one of three scientists awarded the 2000 Medicine Prize for deciphering the signalling pathways that regulate some of the brain's most important functions. He passed away at age 95.
