The first design of the Nobel Center project is here – a public building in Stockholm, Sweden for science, literature and peace. It will be an international symbol of knowledge, focusing on the Nobel Prize laureates’ stories and groundbreaking achievements. Read more about the project.
Aerial view along the waterfront.
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How are the Nobel Prize laureates selected?
After a long selection process, the Nobel Prize-awarding institutions finally make their choice. In October, the world will learn about the discoveries and achievements honoured by this year’s prizes.
Find out more about the nomination process in the video.
Professor Cristina Dorador collects soil samples in the Atacama Desert.
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Kailash Satyarthi and the 2014 Nobel Prize laureates.
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One-minute crash course
How much do you know about the achievements awarded the 2025 Nobel Prizes? Take our one-minute crash course on each of this year’s Nobel Prizes and laureates.
1 (of 40) László Krasznahorkai’s library visit in Rinkeby, Stockholm, Sweden on 12 December, 2025
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2 (of 40) Shimon Sakaguchi visiting Kungsholmens gymnasium in Stockholm.
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3 (of 40) Economic sciences laureate Peter Howitt and his wife Pat with the prize medal at the Nobel Foundation, 11 December 2025.
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5 (of 40) Nobel Peace Prize exhibition opening, 11 December 2025.
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6 (of 40) Maria Corina Machado at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, Norway, 10 December 2025.
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8 (of 40) Divertissement at the 2025 Nobel Prize banquet.
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9 (of 40) Divertissement at the 2025 Nobel Prize banquet.
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13 (of 40) The 2025 Nobel Prize banquet starter: Soup of porcini mushroom served with a bound salad of cultivated Swedish mushrooms, Almnäs Tegel cheese, ginger oil and black winter truffle. Truffle butter and crispbread flavoured with porcini mushroom.
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14 (of 40) The 2025 Nobel Prize banquet main course: Turbot stuffed with scallops and sugar kelp, roasted celeriac glazed with lovage, butter-boiled potatoes and white onions flavoured with nutmeg. Served with Savoy cabbage, leeks and mushrooms, accompanied by a butter sauce of fermented quince and Ingrid Marie apples.
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15 (of 40) The 2025 Nobel Prize banquet dessert: Sorbet of Swedish blackthorn berries flavoured with orange, allspice and clove. A baked cream of fresh cheese with bourbon vanilla and a browned butter sponge. A buttermilk caramel and a crunchy topping of buckwheat and oats. Served with a consommé of wild raspberry flavoured with juniper shoots.
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16 (of 40) The tables in the Blue Hall of the Stockholm City Hall are set for the Nobel Prize banquet.
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19 (of 40) László Krasznahorkai receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2025.
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20 (of 40) Mary E. Brunkow receiving her Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2025.
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21 (of 40) The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo City Hall.
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22 (of 40) Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, giving his speech at the 2025 peace prize award ceremony.
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23 (of 40) Recording of Nobel Minds 2025.
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24 (of 40) Michel H. Devoret and László Krasznahorkai at a reception for the 2025 Nobel Prize laureates in Stockholm.
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25 (of 40) Nobel Week Dialogue in Gothenburg.
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26 (of 40) John Clarke lecturing at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University, 8 December 2025.
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27 (of 40) Nobel Prize Concert 2025. Spanish violinist María Dueñas and Semyon Bychkov, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic.
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28 (of 40) Philippe Aghion lecturing at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University, 8 December 2025.
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29 (of 40) Mary E. Brunkow at the Nobel Creations exhibition 2025, Nobel Prize Museum, 6 December.
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30 (of 40) Susumu Kitagawa lecturing at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University, 8 December 2025.
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31 (of 40) Fred Ramsdell wore these hiking boots during a hike with his wife, when the news of his Nobel Prize was announced. Ramsdell donated the boots to the Nobel Prize Museum, 6 December 2025.
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32 (of 40) Shimon Sakaguchi lecturing at Karolinska Institutet, 7 December 2025.
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33 (of 40) The Light We Reflect by Saadia Hussain at Nobel Week Lights 2025.
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34 (of 40) Medicine laureate Mary E. Brunkow arriving at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, 6 December 2025.
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35 (of 40) Medicine laureate Shimon Sakaguchi arriving to the Nobel Prize Museum for the Get together with the 2025 laureates.
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36 (of 40) László Krasznahorkai donated a Netsuke depicting a wise elderly man to the Nobel Prize Museum on 6 December 2025.
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37 (of 40) Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt signing chairs at the Nobel Prize Museum. 6 December 2025.
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38 (of 40) 2025 Nobel Prize laureates in physics, chemistry, medicine and literature and the economic sciences laureates gathered at the Nobel Prizer Museum get together in Stockholm.
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39 (of 40) Economic sciences laureate Peter Howitt arriving at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, 6 December 2025.
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40 (of 40) Susumu Kitagawa and Omar M. Yaghi signing a chair at the Nobel Prize Museum. 6 December 2025
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Whenever bullets replace ballots the human cost is unbearable
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize Forum focused on democracy as the foundation for peace, and how the transition from authoritarianism to democracy can pave the way for peace in different parts of the world.
This year’s laureates conducted experiments with an electrical circuit in which they demonstrated both quantum mechanical tunnelling and quantised energy levels in a system big enough to be held in the hand.
The 2025 chemistry laureates have created molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow.
The laureates made groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.
As the leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado is one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.
This year’s laureates in economic sciences explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress.
Louis Brus died on 11 January 2026 in New York, USA, aged 82. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
James Watson died on 6 November 2025 in East Northport, New York, USA, aged 97. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.”
Chen Ning Yang passed away on 18 October 2025 in Beijing, China, aged 103. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 “for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles.”
Sir John B. Gurdon died on 7 October 2025, aged 92. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.”
