Nobel Week highlights
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Nobel Prize award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, 10 December 2019. © Nobel Media. Photo: Nanaka Adachi
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Esther Duflo receiving her Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2019. © Nobel Media. Photo: Nanaka Adachi
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William G. Kaelin Jr receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2019. © Nobel Media. Photo: Nanaka Adachi
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Abhijit Banerjee receiving his Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2019. © Nobel Media. Photo: Nanaka Adachi
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali showing his Nobel Prize medal and diploma at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony at the Oslo City Hall in Norway, 10 December 2019. © Nobel Media. Photo: Ken Opprann
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Stanley Whittingham delivering his speech at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall, 10 December 2019. Copyright © Nobel Media. Photo: Dan Lepp
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Olga Tokarczuk meeting with school children at Rinkeby library, Stockholm on 11 December 2019 © Nobel Media. Photo: Clément Morin
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Akira Yoshino during a visit to Hökarängsskolan in Stockholm on 9 December 2019. © Nobel Media. Photo: Clément Morin
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Tawakkol Karman talked about 'The second wave of the Arab spring' at Nobel Week Dialogue in Gothenburg. © Nobel Media. Photo: Henrik Jansson
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Nobel Prize Concert at Konserthuset Stockholm. Conductor Herbert Blomstedt and soprano Miah Persson together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. © Nobel Media. Photo: Niklas Elmehed
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Olga Tokarczuk delivered her Nobel Lecture 'The Tender Narrator' at the Swedish Academy on 7 December. © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
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Peter Handke delivering his Nobel Lecture at the Swedish Academy. © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
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Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe delivering his Nobel Lecture at Aula Medica, Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. © Nobel Media. Photo: Nanaka Adachi
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Gregg L. Semenza lectured about 'Hypoxia-Inducible Factors in Physiology and Medicine'. © Nobel Media. Photo: Nanaka Adachi
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Laureate in Economic Sciences Esther Duflo prepares her artefact for the museum's collection. © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
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John Goodenough at the 2019 Nobel Laureates' Get together at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2019. © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
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Like many Nobel Laureates before him, James Peebles autographs a chair at the 2019 Nobel Laureates' Get together at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2019. © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
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At the Nobel Prize Museum, Literature Laureate Olga Tokarczuk donated her personal diary from 2018. © Nobel Media. Photo: Clément Morin
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Medicine Laureate Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe at Nobel Prize Museum. © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
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Esther Duflo, Laureate in Economic Sciences, handed over schoolbooks to the Nobel Prize Museum. © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
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Chemistry Laureate Akira Yoshino at Nobel Prize Museum. © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
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Physics Laureate Didier Queloz gives a key to Nobel Prize Museum. © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
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Nobel Laureates in Physics, Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor, and the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Stanley Whittingham in a talk to astronauts on the
International Space Station Luca Parmitano and Jessica Meir on 6 December at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm. © Nobel Media. Photo: Clément Morin
News
Nobel Minds 2019
Nobel Laureates in discussion
The 2019 Nobel Laureates met at the old Stockholm Stock Exchange Building (Börshuset) in Gamla stan, Stockholm for the traditional round-table discussion and TV program 'Nobel Minds'. The laureates talked about their research, what drives them and their visions for the future. The discussion was hosted by the BBC's Zeinab Badawi.
Nobel Peace Prize 2019
Abiy Ahmed Ali
Nobel Lecture: Forging A Durable Peace in the Horn of Africa
Prize in Economic Sciences 2019
Abhijit Banerjee
Prize Lecture: Field experiments and the practice of economics
Esther Duflo
Prize Lecture: Field experiments and the practice of policy
Michael Kremer
Prize Lecture: Experimentation, Innovation, and Economics
Find out more about the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019
What do the laureates receive?
Each diploma is a unique work of art, created by leading Swedish and Norwegian artists and calligraphers. Look at some of the diplomas here.
Doris Lessing’s Nobel Diploma
© The Nobel Foundation 2007. Artist: Karin Mamma Andersson. Calligrapher: Annika Rücker. Photo reproduction: Fredrika Berghult
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.
© Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud.
The current amount is at SEK 9 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.
Flower decorations by Florist Helén Magnusson at the 2016 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2016.
Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2016. Photo: Pi Frisk.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019
John B. Goodenough
Nobel Lecture: Designing Lithium-ion Battery Cathodes
M. Stanley Whittingham
Nobel Lecture: The Origins of the Lithium Battery
M. Stanley Whittingham's Banquet speech
Akira Yoshino
Nobel Lecture: Brief History and Future of Lithium-ion Batteries
Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
James Peebles
Nobel Lecture: How Physical Cosmology Grew
Read James Peeble's Banquet speech
Michel Mayor
Nobel Lecture: Plurality of Worlds in the Cosmos: A Dream of Antiquity, A Modern Reality of Astrophysics
Didier Queloz
Nobel Lecture: Exoplanets: 51 Pegasis b and all the others …
© Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
Nobel Prize in Literature
Watch or read Olga Tokarczuk's Nobel Lecture The Tender Narrator.
Olga Tokarczuk.
© Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
Watch or read Peter Handke's Nobel Lecture.
Peter Handke.
© Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019
William G. Kaelin Jr
Nobel Lecture: The von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Protein: Insights into Oxygen Sensing
Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe
Nobel Lecture: Elucidation of Oxygen Sensing Systems in Human and Animal Cells
Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe's Banquet speech
Gregg L. Semenza
Nobel Lecture: Hypoxia-Inducible Factors in Physiology and Medicine
Nobel Banquet
Nobel Banquet starter
Kalix vendace roe with cucumber, pickle-poached kohlrabi, creamy dill and a horseradish sauce. Chef Sebastian Gibrand works with all parts of each ingredient to reduce food waste and be able to showcase the fantastic quality of Swedish producers.
Nobel Week events
Herbert Blomstedt conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra on 8 December in Konserthuset Stockholm. Soloist was Miah Persson, performing songs by Stenhammar and Grieg.
© Nobel Media. Photo: Niklas Elmehed
Into the unknown
The 2019 Nobel Week Dialogue discussed how we deal with what we do not know and accept that there are things we cannot know. Watch the dialogue here.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded on 10 December in a formal ceremony at the Oslo City Hall. Watch the ceremony here.
© Pressens Bild AB 2001, SE-112 88 Stockholm
The Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature and the Prize in Economic Sciences are awarded at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Watch the ceremony here.
© Nobel Media, photo: Alexander Mahmoud
The Nobel Banquet takes place in the Blue Hall of the Stockholm City Hall.
© Nobel Media, photo: Dan Lepp
The Nobel Peace Prize Forum addressed the conflict in Yemen with Tawakkol Karman as keynote speaker on 11 December. Read more about the event here.
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Nobel Laureates called the International Space Station
A call to space
On 6 December 2019 a call to the International Space Station was made from the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, at the start of Nobel Week festivities. ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang moderated the conversation between the Nobel Laureates in Physics, Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor, the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Stanley Whittingham, and ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir.
The new Nobel Laureates take center stage on 10 December in Stockholm and Oslo, where they will receive their Nobel Prizes and enjoy the Nobel Banquets afterwards.
Nobel Prize award ceremony in Konserthuset Stockholm.
© Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud.
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.
Copyright © Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
Flowers from the city of Sanremo in Italy, where Alfred Nobel spent his last years, decorate the festivities in the Stockholm Concert Hall and the City Hall each year.
Watch a short video about the work with floral decorations
Flower decorations at the Nobel Prize award ceremony.
© Nobel Media. Photo: Pi Frisk.
The tables at the Nobel Banquet in the Stockholm City Hall are set with meticulous precision and care and comprise no fewer than some 7,000 porcelain pieces.
Preparations for the Nobel Banquet.
© Nobel Media. Photo: Dan Lepp.
Nobel Prizes 2019
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded with one half to James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”
© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 was awarded jointly to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.”
© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019 was awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
© The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”
Ill. Niklas Elmehed. © Nobel Media.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 was awarded to Peter Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”
Ill. Niklas Elmehed. © Nobel Media.
The Nobel Peace Prize 2019 was awarded to Abiy Ahmed Ali “for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.”
Abiy Ahmed Ali.
Photo: Aron Simeneh, via Wikimedia Commons.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019 was awarded jointly to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
© Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Alfred Nobel - Established the Nobel Prize
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.
'Lost and Found'
Watch the new documentary ‘Lost and Found’
The film follows Kamal Hussein, a Rohingya refugee in the world’s largest refugee camp who has dedicated his life to reuniting children with their parents, with the support of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. This National Geographic Documentary Film is the result of a partnership between the Nobel Prize and Academy Award-winning director Orlando von Einsiedel (‘The White Helmets’).
The video is available all over the world, apart from in the following countries: Spain, Australia, India, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, South Sudan, Tunisia, Mauritania, all of the Middle East.
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Nobel destinations
Stockholm, Sweden
The museum showcases the discoveries and creativity of the Nobel Laureates.
Photo: Åke Eson Lindman
Oslo, Norway
The story of each Peace Laureate is told at the museum.
Photo: Johannes Granseth / Nobel Peace Center
In memoriam
Kary B. Mullis was awarded the 1993 Chemistry Prize for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method. PCR has been of major importance in both medical research and forensic science.
Novelist and 1993 Literature Laureate Toni Morrison has passed away aged 88. Morrison's works revolve around African-Americans; both their history and their situation in our own time.
Physics Laureate Robert Schrieffer, awarded for the theoretical explanation of the phenomenon of superconductivity, passed away on 27 July, age 88.
Physics Laureate Murray Gell-Mann passed away on 24 May. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions.
