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–). The publication was paused 2011. The yearbook includes the Nobel Prize laureates’ lectures and autobiographies, as well as presentation…

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 2024 Members Ulf Danielsson (Secretary)Professor of Theoretical Physics Olle ErikssonProfessor David HavilandProfessor…

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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The Nobel Foundation’s symposium activities were initiated in 1965. Over the years they have achieved a high international standing. The symposia are devoted to areas of science where breakthroughs are occurring or deal with topics of primary cultural or social significance. During 2017 it was decided that the Nobel Symposia will no longer be administered…

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