The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded all in all 580 times. There are now three new Nobel Laureates in Physics, three in Chemistry, three in Physiology or Medicine, one in Literature, one in Peace - this year an organisation - and one new Laureate in Economic Sciences. All in all, there are now 923 Nobel Laureates! See the full list here.
All Nobel Prizes and Laureates
The first five Nobel Prizes ever were awarded on 10 December 1901. The Nobel Laureates' names had been kept secret and were revealed on the same day.
Learn more about the 1901 Nobel Prizes
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017 was awarded to Richard H. Thaler "for his contributions to behavioural economics".
Watch the announcement of this year's Prize in Economic Sciences to Richard H. Thaler.
More videos: Professor Peter Gärdenfors explains the awarded work
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Richard H. Thaler describes some of the impacts of his work on behavioural economics in this telephone interview recorded immediately after the public announcement of the award of his Prize in Economic Sciences.
Interview with Richard Thaler
See all Laureates in Economic Sciences 1969-2017 and why they were awarded the Nobel Prize.
All Laureates in Economic Sciences
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017 to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
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Listen to when Executive Director of ICAN Beatrice Fihn receives the news that International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
Listen to the interviewWatch Berit Reiss-Andersen, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, announce the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
More videos: Interview with Berit Reiss-Andersen
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In an interview recorded immediately after she had heard the news, Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN, describes the significance for ICAN of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Interview with ICAN's Beatrice Fihn
Kazuo Ishiguro. Ill: N. Elmehed. © Nobel Media 2017
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 is awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
Bio-bibliographical information
Here, 2017 Literature Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro shares his reaction to the award, discusses the uncertainty about values in the Western world, and reveals: "I do a very good Bob Dylan impersonation!"
Read or listen to the interview2017 LITERATURE PRIZE QUESTION
Hav you read anything by Kazuo Ishiguro or by another author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Tell us about your favourite book!
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 was awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution".
More about the 2017 Chemistry Prize
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Jacques Dubochet explains how his technique of water vitrification has allowed us to observe biomolecules like Zika and Salmonella in their natural state.
Interview with Jacques Dubochet
Joachim Frank. © Nobel Media. Ill. N. Elmehed
Joachim Frank on how he felt receiving the phone call from Stockholm.
Interview with Joachim Frank
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Richard Henderson was in a meeting on cryo-EM when his phone rang ...
Read or listen to the interview
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
More about the 2017 Physics Prize
Rainer Weiss. © Nobel Media. Ill. N. Elmehed
Rainer Weiss explains why measuring the effect of gravitational waves is so very hard to achieve.
Interview with Rainer Weiss
Kip S. Thorne. © Nobel Media. Ill. N. Elmehed
Kip S. Thorne on how this year's Nobel Prize in Physics was a remarkable team effort.
Read or listen to the interview
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Barry C. Barish about the LIGO detector in a short interview after the announcement.
Interview with Barry C. Barish
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 was awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm".
More about the 2017 Medicine Prize
Jeffrey C. Hall. Ill. Niklas Elmehed. © Nobel Media 2017.
Jeffrey C. Hall praised the role of the humble fruit fly when he was interviewed after the announcement.
Interview with Jeffrey C. Hall
Michael W. Young. Ill. Niklas Elmehed. © Nobel Media 2017.
Here, Michael W. Young explains why he decided to take on the mystery of circadian rhythms.
Read or listen to the interview with Michael W. Young
Michael Rosbash. Ill. Niklas Elmehed. © Nobel Media 2017.
Michael Rosbash was awakened by the telephone call from Stockholm early in the morning.
Interview with Michael Rosbash
"And I said: 'What award?'"
Peter Higgs, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2013
"Immediately the whole country was electrified"
Muhammad Yunus, Peace 2006
"Robin and I often have a beer down by the riverside"
Barry Marshall, Medicine 2005
"Did you think we murdered somebody?"
Elizabeth Blackburn, Medicine 2009
"I needed a cup of coffee"
Amartya Sen, Economic Sciences 1998
"The president of the USA called me up"
Jerome Karle, Chemistry 1985
"I really felt very frightened, I didn't know how to cope"
Mairead Corrigan, Peace 1976
See the full list of all Nobel Laureates, awarded for "the greatest benefit to mankind".
All Nobel Prizes
1901-2016, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 26 times to organizations.
See the list of awarded organizations
See the list of all women awarded a Nobel Prize or a Prize in Economic Sciences.
All Nobel Prize awarded women
Youngest Nobel Laureate ever is Malala Yousafzai. She was 17 years old when she was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
All Nobel Laureates by age
Marie Curie discovered the elements radium and polonium. She is the only woman to have been awarded two prizes, one in Physics and one in Chemistry.
More facts about Marie Curie
Fairly unknown in Europe at the time, Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore attracted western readers with his aura of mysticism.
Tagore and his India
Human blood groups were discovered in 1901 by Karl Landsteiner, later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
More on Karl Landsteiner
Although famed for his theory of general relativity, it was his law about light that gave Albert Einstein the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Questions and answers about Albert Einstein
Chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel left 31 million SEK (today about 265 million dollar) to fund the Nobel Prizes.
Alfred Nobel's life and work
When Alfred was five years old his father Immanuel, inventor and builder, moved to St. Petersburg. Alfred joined him a few years later.
Early years in St. Petersburg
In his will of 27 November 1895 signed in Paris, Alfred Nobel specified that the bulk of his fortune should be used for prizes.
Excerpt of Alfred Nobel's will
No person can nominate herself/himself for a Nobel Prize. But who can? And how are these persons chosen?
Read more about how the Nobel Laureates are nominated
Olav Njølstad, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, answers questions about the Nobel Peace Prize.
Questions and answers
Search among the names of the nominees and nominators, as well as additional information about the nominations 1901-1964.
Search in the archive
Here you can search for a nominee or a nominator, and see how the nominations were made across countries.
Explore the nomination map
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Teachers can find free lesson material within 24 hours after every Nobel Prize announcement. Start teaching straight away.
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The internationally renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel will be conducting the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2017 Nobel Prize Concert.
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Nicolaas Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for the study of atomic systems using laser light. He passed away on 5 September at age 97.
Nicolaas Bloembergen's autobiography
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Liu Xiaobo was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".
Biography
Alexei Abrikosov, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids, passed away on 29 March, age 88.
Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 "for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment".
1992 Nobel Prize in Literature
