This year's Nobel Prize announcements will take place 1-8 October. The Swedish Academy has decided to postpone the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, with the intention of awarding it in 2019.
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
Times listed are local time in Sweden (CET).
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Between 1901 and 2017, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 585 times to 923 people and organizations.
The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 27 times to organizations.
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The Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 49 times between 1901 and 2017.
Youngest Nobel Laureate ever is Malala Yousafzai. She was 17 years old when she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Under the most dangerous circumstances, Malala Yousafzai has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education. She was awarded the 2014 Peace Prize.
Watch or read her Nobel Lecture
Fairly unknown in Europe at the time, Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore attracted western readers with his aura of mysticism.
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Human blood groups were discovered in 1901 by Karl Landsteiner, later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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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
Literary mastery, pioneering science, life-saving discoveries and actions for peace and human rights - achievements of women around the world awarded the Nobel Prize. See them all in this video.
Twelve Laureates were awarded Nobel Prizes in 2017. See a short presentation of them here.
2017 Nobel Laureates
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 nominatedThe Nobel Foundation supports the Swedish Academy's decision to postpone the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The awarding of the 2018 Nobel Prizes in other prize categories will not be impacted by this decision.
Read the press releaseBerit Reiss-Andersen, the Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, has issued a statement following the release of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo's widow, Liu Xia.
Read the statement
There will be no Nobel Peace Prize Concert this year. The decision emerges from a wish to re-think the concert format and content but also reflects the challenging financial situation of the concert in recent years. "Our ambition is to launch a renewed and better concert in 2019", says Olav Njølstad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
Read the press release
A world without ignorance and racism starts in school. We invite you to spend Saturday 6 October together with Nobel Prize Laureates, scientists, change makers and hundreds of engaged colleagues from all over the world during Nobel Prize Teacher Summit.
More about the event
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Lisa Batiashvili, praised for her virtuosity and profound sensitivity, will be this years soloist at the 2018 Nobel Prize Concert. Tickets are on sale at konserthuset.se.
More about the concert
A discovery made by Barry Marshall and Robin Warren turned an established medical theory on its head.
Watch the Laureates tell their story
Find out why Rita Levi-Montalcini's Nobel Prize awarded research began in a bedroom in Italy during World War II.
Video interview with Rita Levi-Montalcini
Tim Hunt lectures on Lessons from a Life in Science: How to get a Nobel Prize to inspire the next generation of young scientists to make future scientific breakthroughs.
Watch Tim Hunt lecture
Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his struggle for civil rights and social justice. He held his acceptance speech in Oslo, Norway, on 10 December 1964.
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Marie Curie was a Nobel Laureate of many firsts: the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first person to be awarded the Prize twice and still the only person to receive the Prize in two different scientific fields.
Watch a glimpse of her in this video
Frederick Sanger was awarded his first Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structure of proteins, in particular, insulin. In 1980, he was awarded a second prize.
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Read the thrilling narrative about how Literature Laureate Alexandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture made it to Stockholm.
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal allowed the anatomy of the nervous system to be observed and documented in precise detail.
Read about Cajal's life and discoveries
During her lifetime, Wislawa Szymborska wrote around 400 poems, seemingly simple, but subtle and deep.
Learn more about Wislawa Szymborska
Fridtjof Nansen is the renowned scientist who changed direction and became engaged in humanitarian work.
Read more about Fridtjof NansenHere, Toni Morrison, 1993 Literature Laureate, talks about the power of language, and that it's important that we all take responsibility for it, as "it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference - the way in which we are like no other life."
More summer listeningNobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Sathyarthi's vision is to put an end to child labour. At grass-root level he has achieved the release of some 80,000 children so far. His Nobel Lecture is a call for action: "Today it is time for every child to have the right to life". The lecture starts with some pieces in Hindi.
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On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his third and last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. When it was opened and read after his death, the will caused a lot of controversy both in Sweden and internationally, as Alfred Nobel had left much of his wealth for the establishment of a prize.
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Nobel Center is to be built on Blasieholmen, on a wonderful site along Stockholm's central waterfront.
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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”.
Biographical
Arvid Carlsson was one of three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000 for deciphering the signalling pathways that regulate some of the brain's most important functions. Arvid Carlsson later found a way to treat Parkinson's disease. He passed away at age 95.
Biography
Paul D. Boyer passed away on 2 June. He performed pioneering work on enzymes that participate in the conversion of the "high-energy" compound adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997. Paul D. Boyer was 99 years.
Biography
Jens C. Skou was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997. He discovered an ion-transporting enzyme, Na+, K+ -ATPase. ens C. Skou passed away on 28 May at the age of 99.
Biography of Jens C. Skou
