Read Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Lecture.
Martin Luther King Jr. held his acceptance speech in the auditorium of the University of Oslo in Norway on 10 December 1964.
The first nomination arrived to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in January 1963. Not until 2014, the nominators were revealed.
Martin Luther King Jr. marching past Browns Chapel in Selma, Alabama.
Photo © Flip Schulke/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images
The traditional costume Kailash Satyarthi wore when he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in 2014.
Photo: Nobel Prize Museum
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.
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) has become the strongest symbol of non-violence in the 20th century. It is widely held – in retrospect – that the Indian national leader should have been selected for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize. Why?
Mahatma Gandhi laughing.
Photo: Public domain.
©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
© The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén
Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach.
Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach.
©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Nobel Prize Concert 2021 featuring cellist Sol Gabetta, conductor Ryan Bancroft and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Niklas Elmehed
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
Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
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.
What are you looking for? Search the website.
The museum showcases the discoveries and creativity of the Nobel Prize laureates.
Photo: Åke Eson Lindman
The story of each peace laureate is told at the museum.
Photo: Johannes Granseth/Nobel Peace Center
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.
"work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa." 
Physics Laureate Antony Hewish passed away on 13 September, aged 97. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1974 for his pioneering research in radio astrophysics and the studies that led to detecting pulsars.
