Board of directors

Regular members

Professor Carl-Henrik Heldin, Chairman

Professor Göran K. Hansson, Vice Chairman
Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Dr Lars Heikensten,
Executive Director

Professor Mats Malm
Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy

Mr Tomas Nicolin, MSc

Professor Thomas Perlmann
Secretary of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet
and of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine

Mrs Berit Reiss-Andersen
Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

 

Deputy members

Professor Gunnar von Heijne
Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry

Professor Gunnar Ingelman
Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physics

 

 

Previous chairmen and executive directors of the Nobel Foundation

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Nobel Prizes 2020

Twelve laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize in 2020, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.

Their work and discoveries range from the formation of black holes and genetic scissors to efforts to combat hunger and develop new auction formats.

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