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Introduction Nobel Prize Outreach, a part of Nobel Group Interests AB, 556903-4613, provides this web site (the “Site”) primarily in support of the mission of the Nobel Foundation to spread information and knowledge about the Nobel Prize® and the Nobel Prize laureates. Nobel Prize Outreach encourages you to use the Site as an educational, informational…
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Frequently asked technical questions Nobelprize.org What is the best way to view Nobelprize.org? Nobelprize.org is a responsive website and will adopt to the width of your device depending if you are using a computer, tablet och mobile phone. The site has been developed according to the W3C web standards (HTML5) and it has been tested…
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Nobelprize.org offers open data to developers in two ways: as API and as Linked Data. The data is free to use and contain information about the Nobel Prizes and the Nobel Laureates. The data is updated as the information on www.nobelprize.org is updated, including at the time of announcements of new Laureates. API version 2…
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Nobel Prize Outreach manages distribution rights to the content available on nobelprize.org: from the highly anticipated Nobel Prize announcements in October to the live broadcasts from the Nobel Prize award ceremony events in Oslo and Stockholm on 10 December, as well as exclusive video, audio and interviews with the Nobel Prize laureates. We also have…
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On 27 November 1895, a year before his death, Alfred Nobel signed the famous will which would implement some of the goals to which he had devoted so much of his life. Nobel stipulated in his will that most of his estate, more than SEK 31 million (today approximately SEK 2,2 billion) should be converted…
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The Nobel Foundation, a private institution established in 1900, has ultimate responsibility for fulfilling the intentions in Alfred Nobel’s will. A central task of the Nobel Foundation is to manage Alfred Nobel’s fortune in a manner that ensures a secure financial standing for the Nobel Prize over the long term and to protect the common…
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This is a page with key subjects from the statutes. Subject Paragraph Amendment of statutes Appeal (no appeal with regard to prizes) Auditors Auditors’ report , , Board of the Foundation, membership Board of the Foundation, assets Board of the Foundation, voting Eligibility for a prize , Expert consultations , Executive director Festival day (10 December)…
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The Nobel Foundation Regular members Astrid Söderbergh Widding, chairProfessor, President of Stockholm University Thomas Perlmann, vice chairProfessor, Secretary of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine Hanna StjärneExecutive Director, The Nobel Foundation Kristian Berg HarpvikenDirector at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Peace…
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Director General David Edvardsson,appointed by the Swedish Government Ms Malin Nilsson, Authorised Public Accountant,elected by the Trustees of the Nobel Foundation Professor Sven Lidin,elected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Professor Catharina Larsson,elected by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet Professor David Håkanssonelected by the Swedish Academy Bettina Banoun,elected by the Norwegian Nobel Committee
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