Nobel Prize

The Nobel Foundation was founded in 1900, four years after Alfred Nobel’s death. It was set up primarily to invest Nobel’s fortune but also to manage the immaterial value of the Nobel Prize. While the first task remains basically the same after more than a century, the second has grown in importance as the prize…

The Nobel Prize is proof that ideas really can change the world. Based on the Nobel Prize’s unique combination of fields, the outreach entities within the Nobel sphere organise exhibitions, school programmes, lectures, dialogues and digital content about the great issues of our time. Events and activities aim to ensure that Alfred Nobel’s vision lives…

When the inventor, entrepreneur and businessman Alfred Nobel died, his will stated that his fortune was to be used to reward “those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.” Nobel’s prize would reward outstanding efforts in the fields that he was most involved in during his lifetime: physics, chemistry, physiology…

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The Nobel Prizes/Les Prix Nobel The Nobel Prizes is the official yearbook of the Nobel Foundation. Since 1901 the Nobel Foundation has annually published a series of yearbooks, Les Prix Nobel (1901-2010) and The Nobel Prizes (2012–). We consider the collection of Nobel Prize lectures to be one of the most valuable sources of information regarding…

The Nobel Committee for Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for the selection of candidates for the physics prize from the names submitted for consideration by qualified nominators, who have been invited through formal letters. Nobel Committee for Physics 2025 Members Ulf Danielsson (Secretary)Professor of theoretical physics Olle Eriksson (Chair)Professor of…

API version 2.1 November 2022 A new property “penNameOf” has been added for literature laureates with pen-names. It currently contains one parameter “fullName” with the name of person as a text string. Since before there is also a textstring called “penName” with free text. In future versions of the API, this textstring will probably be…

Prize awarder for the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Prize in Economic Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for selecting the Nobel Prize laureates in physics and in chemistry and the laureates in economic sciences. By the terms of  the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry…

Vidar Helgesen – Norway’s former State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister of European Affairs and Minister of Climate and the Environment – will become the new Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation at the beginning of 2021. He will thus assume the task of strengthening the long-term finances and position of the…

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