A chance discovery made around 80 years ago paved the way for Mary Brunkow’s painstaking work, which contributed to redefining how the immune system functions. Read more about the 2025 medicine laureate and how she has embraced the unexpected throughout her career.
Mary Brunkow showing the slides for her thesis defense, 1990.
Credit: Mary Brunkow
Kailash Satyarthi and the 2014 Nobel Prize laureates.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Alexander Mahmoud
Watch the conversation with Nobel Prize laureates Stefan Hell and Benjamin List, investigating the evolution and progress of science.
Photo: © Fundación Ramón Areces
“It’s a lifelong learning process”
Join the conversation between 2025 physics laureate John Martinis and PhD student Eleonora Svanberg on curiosity and the future of quantum technology. Martinis reflects on the choices that led him to exploring quantum mechanical behaviour and discusses his groundbreaking work – conducted with co-laureates Michel Devoret and John Clarke – demonstrating quantum phenomena on a macroscopic scale.
This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place on 5–12 October. All of the prize announcements will be broadcast live on the official digital channels of the Nobel Prize. In-depth information about the prizes will be published here at nobelprize.org.
The door to the Swedish Academy.
Photo: K. Svanholm.
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.
View from the water along the quay. The Nobel Center consists of four interconnected volumes that relate to the buildings of Södermalm and the size and height of the buildings in Gamla stan, on the other side of the water. The choice to use a wooden frame and reclaimed bricks reduces the impact on the environment. Bricks have characterised the architecture of Stockholm for centuries. The red shade is found in Stockholm’s classic brick buildings, such as City Hall.
© Onirism/Nobel Prize Outreach
J. Michael Bishop passed away on 20 March 2026, aged 90. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989 “for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.”
Christopher A. Sims died on 14 March 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, aged 83. He was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2011 “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.”
Anthony Leggett passed away on 8 March 2026, aged 87. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 “for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.”
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.”
