Nobel Prize

Participants discussed key issues and proposed solutions which they are currently developing and implementing through a year-long collaboration.

4 December 2024 Iranian authorities have to permanently end Narges Mohammadi’s imprisonment The Norwegian Nobel Committee is glad to hear about Narges Mohammadi’s release, and is hoping to get in contact with her personally very soon to congratulate her in person on her Nobel Peace Prize.  At the same time we are deeply worried about…

Early in June, Swedish Nobel Prize laureate turned 100 years old. His centenary birthday was celebrated with a seminar at the Nobel Prize Museum on 17 June. He also donated a scientific instrument that he and David Hubel used in their Nobel Prize-awarded research. On Monday, the Nobel Prize Museum added an ophthalmoscope to its…

The Nobel Peace Center offers a special treat for visitors to the museum this summer: The children of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi will give special guided tours in the exhibition about their imprisoned mother. In December last year, Kiana and Ali Rahmani came to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf…

Citizens across the world will share their wishes for peace as Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree will be on display in five cities on five continents at the same time. In Oslo, people can take part in the activation outside the Norwegian Parliament on Friday 7 June. The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo and Japan Institute…

Hanna Stjärne will be the new Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation. She will thus be tasked with strengthening the finances and position of the Nobel Prize in the long term and further developing the public activities surrounding the Nobel Prize in Sweden, Norway and globally. Hanna Stjärne, who is currently the Director General of…

Across four episodes we hear from Nobel Prize laureates about the spread of disinformation in their fields of work and the young people around the world combatting and exposing these distortions. In a new four-part series titled Whose Truth? Babita Sharma hears from Nobel Prize laureates, global analysts, activists, and changemakers to discuss global problems…

Just sometimes, everyone else is wrong. They insist that your idea won’t work, your finding is wrong, your scheme is mad. For many Nobel Prize laureates, that was the starting point.

The market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital amounted to SEK 6,233 m (5,799) at the end of 2023. Excluding the value of the Foundation’s directly owned properties, investment capital amounted to SEK 6,041 m (5,515). This generated a return of +10.7 (−2.0) per cent during 2023. During the past five years, investment…

The Embassy of the Czech Republic in cooperation with the Embassy of Sweden, One World Echoes in Oslo and the Nobel Peace Center cordially invite you to mark World Press Freedom Day at the Nobel Peace Center, Friday 3 May.  3 May is World Press Freedom Day; a day to celebrate the fundamental principle of press freedom…