Portrait of Guido W. Imbens.
Photo: Andrew Brodhead, Stanford University.
Group photo of the 1993 Nobel Prize laureates.
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Ada E. Yonath with dishes used for crystallization experiments.
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Tasuku Honjo and James P. Allison's meeting with cancer survivors
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Donna Strickland in the laboratory.
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1 (of 5) Syukuro Manabe presenting his gift to the Nobel Prize Museum’s collection when visiting Stockholm, Sweden, on 14 June 2022: one of his ties, decorated with penguins and polar bears − animals that are greatly affected by climate change.
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2 (of 5) David Card presenting his gift to the Nobel Prize Museum’s collection when visiting Stockholm, Sweden, on 14 June 2022: a magnetic tape that he had used in his prize-awarded research.
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3 (of 5) Like many Nobel Prize laureates before him, David MacMillan autographed a chair at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14 June 2022.
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4 (of 5) Christopher A. Sims presenting his gift to the Nobel Prize Museum’s collection when visiting Stockholm, Sweden, on 14 June 2022: a book containing a collection of lectures that his grandfather delivered at Columbia University.
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5 (of 5) As is tradition, David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), signed a chair at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14 June 2022.
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The Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, has a growing collection of donated artefacts related to the laureates. A tie, a book and a magnetic tape were donated when five Nobel Prize laureates paid a visit on 14 June 2022. Those laureates who had not been to the museum before also took the opportunity to sign a chair for the museum’s Bistro Nobel.
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Dmitry Muratov delivers his Nobel Prize lecture.
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On nobelprize.org, you can find excerpts from many of our literature laureates’ literary works such as Olga Tokarczuk’s book Flights, Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude and Wisława Szymborska’s poem ‘The Three Oddest Words’.
Enjoy some excerpts from books or poems written by literature laureates. Discover all the excerpts here.
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Soprano Diana Damrau
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Illustration of the view from inside the Nobel Center.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee received 343 candidates for the 2022 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 Q&A with Olav Njølstad, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
The nomination process for Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
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Now you can bring the achievements made by the 2021 Nobel Prize laureates into the classroom! The lessons are so easy to use that a teacher can look through the guide, watch the slides, print the texts for students and then start the class.
The Nobel Prize medal
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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.
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The story of each peace laureate is told at the museum.
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Virologist Luc Montagnier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 for the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus. He passed away on 8 February, age 89.
Desmond Tutu, awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize “for his role as a unifying leader figure in the non-violent campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa”, passed away on 26 December aged 90.
