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Soprano Elisabeth Meyer performs at the 2020 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in the Golden Hall of the Stockholm City Hall. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Dan Lepp
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David Beasley, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme received the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to WFP in Rome, Italy. Photo: Rein Skullerud
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Nobel Week Lights installation “Space” lightens up the City Hall in Stockholm. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Clément Morin.
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The online event 2020 Nobel Week Dialogue placed the spotlight on learning. © Nobel Prize Outreach Photo: Clément Morin.
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Igor Levit performing Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor” at the Nobel Prize Concert. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Niklas Elmehed
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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences medal and diploma were presented to economic sciences laureates Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson in Palo Alto. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Elena Zhukova
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Jennifer A. Doudna showing her Nobel Prize diploma. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Brittany Hosea-Small.
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Roger Penrose showing his Nobel Prize medal. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Fergus Kennedy
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The Nobel Prize medal and diploma were presented to literature laureate Louise Glück outside her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Daniel Ebersole
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The Nobel Prize medal and diploma were presented to physics laureate Reinhard Genzel at the Bavarian State Chancellery (Bayerische Staatskanzlei) in Munich on 8 December 2020. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Bernhard Ludewig
Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden
Programme for the ceremony
Speech to the Nobel Laureates in Physics
Speech to the Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
Speech to the Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine
Speech to the Nobel Laureate in Literature
Speech to the Laureates in Economic Sciences
Louise Glück's Nobel Prize medal and diploma.
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David Beasley, Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme received the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to WFP in Rome, Italy.
Photo: Rein Skullerud
This year’s forum discussed 'Multilateralism and Global Governance in the Wake of the Corona Pandemic'. With a keynote speech from United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres and featuring 2020 Peace Prize Laureate the World Food Programme.
Roger Penrose
Nobel Lecture: Black Holes, Cosmology, and Space-Time Singularities
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Reinhard Genzel
Nobel Lecture: A Forty Year Journey
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Andrea Ghez
Nobel Lecture: From the Possibility to the Certainty of a Supermassive Black Hole
Andrea Ghez delivering her Nobel Lecture
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Nobel Lecture: For the development of a method for genome editing
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Jennifer A. Doudna
Nobel Lecture: The Chemistry of CRISPR: Editing the Code of Life
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Image from Jennifer A. Doudna's Nobel Lecture
Emmanuelle Charpentier: “My stability is my science”
Get to know chemistry laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier, who speaks about the stability she gets from doing science and points out that laboratories look fairly similar all over the world.
Andrea Ghez: “It never ceases to amaze me how much info the star has to offer”
Listen to physics laureate Andrea Ghez, who compares the centre of the galaxy to a city’s crowded downtown area. Her fascination for space is mirrored in her enthusiasm in speaking about science.
Harvey J. Alter
Nobel Lecture
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Michael Houghton
Nobel Lecture
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Charles M. Rice
Nobel Lecture
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Harvey J. Alter delivering his Nobel Lecture.
“When I was a small child of, I think, about five or six, I staged a competition in my head, a contest to decide the greatest poem in the world..."
In her Nobel Lecture, Louise Glück highlights the literature that influenced her growing up as well as the role poetry plays in her life.
The Nobel Prize medal and diploma were presented to literature laureate Louise Glück outside her home.
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The world-renowned pianist Igor Levit performed at the 2020 Nobel Prize Concert on 8 December. At his side, he had conductor Stéphane Denève leading the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Igor Levit and Stéphane Denève at Konsterthuset Stockholm, Sweden, on 8 December 2020.
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Robert B. Wilson delivering his Prize Lecture
Each diploma is a unique work of art, created by leading Swedish and Norwegian artists and calligraphers. Read more about the diplomas here.
Physics Laureate Donna Strickland's diploma.
Photo reproduction: Lovisa Engblom
The front of the gold Nobel Prize medals depict Alfred Nobel. The image on the reverse varies according to the institution awarding the prize. Read more about the medals.
Medicine laureate Tu Youyou showing her Nobel Prize medal, 11 December 2015.
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The current amount is at SEK 10 million per full Nobel Prize. A Nobel Prize can be awarded to up to three laureates who share the prize sum. Find out more about the prize amounts throughout history.
Laureates on stage after the 2014 Nobel Prize award ceremony.
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Since 1901, the Nobel Prizes have been presented to the laureates on 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. The Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature and the Prize in Economic Sciences are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, while the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.
Nobel Prize award ceremony in Konserthuset Stockholm.
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According to the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, each Nobel Laureate shall be presented with a Nobel Medal.
May-Britt and Edvard I. Moser examining their Nobel Medals.
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Each Nobel Prize diploma and medal comes in its own cover and case. Take a deep dive into the world of bookbinding and find out more about the craftmanship behind these unique pieces.
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This year the laureates are unable to come to Stockholm and Oslo, but previous years they have been swept up in a whirlwind of activities during Nobel Week.
Two Medicine Laureates at the Nobel Banquet: William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was awarded with one half to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity" and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy".
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing”.
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 was awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus”.
© The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.
© Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas Elmehed.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 was awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.
© Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas Elmehed.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020 was awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats”.
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From genetic editing to combatting world hunger. An unmistakable poetic voice to black holes. New treatments for hepatitis C to the quest for the perfect auction. Now you can bring the discoveries and achievements made by the 2020 Nobel Laureates into the classroom.
The lessons are free and so easy to use that a teacher can look through the manual, watch the slides, print the texts for students and then start the class.
The Nobel Prize Medal
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A team of female Yazidi deminers in Iraq attempting to clear their land of mines left behind by ISIS. A team of scientists on an extraordinary mission in Mozambique to help better our understanding of climate change. A man building prosthetic legs to help victims of war walk again in South Sudan ... All are inspired by Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
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 Laureates.
Photo: Åke Eson Lindman
The story of each Peace Laureate is told at the museum.
Photo: Johannes Granseth / Nobel Peace Center
Physicist Jack Steinberger passed away on 12 December. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 after managing to create a beam of neutrinos using a high-energy accelerator.
Masatoshi Koshiba passed away on 12 November. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2002 "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos."
Chemistry Laureate Mario Molina has passed away aged 77. He received the Nobel Prize for research concerning the ozone layer, which shields the Earth from dangerous solar radiation.
Arthur Ashkin, awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of optical tweezers, and their application to biological systems, passed away on 21 September at age 98.
