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7–14 October 2024

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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What are the Nobel Prize categories?

The Nobel Prize categories are physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace and were laid out in the will of Alfred Nobel.
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Meet the prize awarder

“It's like detective work”

How does the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet choose their candidates? Watch the interview with Juleen Zierath, who helps to award the medicine prize.

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Who selects the laureates?

Each year, thousands of people are asked to submit candidates for the Nobel Prizes for the coming year.

Find out about the prize-awarding institutions and their work with the nomination process.
Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi showing their Nobel medals and diplomas during the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony at the Oslo City Hall in Norway, 10 December 2014.

This is the Nobel Prize

When the inventor, entrepreneur and businessman Alfred Nobel died, his will stated that his fortune was to be used to reward “those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.”
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Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm

Nobel Calling

The Nobel Prize Museum, together with partners across Stockholm, invites you to celebrate and understand this year’s Nobel Prizes and much more.
Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm

These things changed the world

For the first time, the Nobel Prize Museum is displaying a large selection of items from its collection of artefacts from Nobel Prize laureates. 
Museum insides
Nobel Peace Center, Oslo

The Medal Chamber

The Nobel Peace Prize medal is shown in all its glory in the Medal Chamber. Here, visitors can experience the world’s foremost symbol of peace.
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Discover last year's prizes

Eleven laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize in 2023, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. Their work and discoveries range from effective mRNA vaccines and attosecond physics to fighting against the oppression of women.
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In memoriam

Physicist Tsung-Dao Lee dies

Tsung Dao Lee passed away on 4 August, age 97. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 for his “penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles.”

Biography
Tsung-Dao (T.D.) Lee

J. Robin Warren passes away aged 87

J. Robin Warren passed away on 23 July 2024. He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease

Biography
Robin Warren

Bengt Samuelsson 1934‒2024

Bengt Samuelsson passed away on 5 July 2024, age 90. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related biologically active substances.

Biography
Bengt I. Samuelsson

Alice Munro dies aged 92

Canadian author Alice Munro passed away on 15 May 2024. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2013 with the motivation “master of the contemporary short story”.

Biography
Alice Munro