Nobel Prize

Five Nobel Peace Prize laureates are among the speakers at the annual Nobel Peace Conference in Oslo 31 August. Indigenous rights and the situation for human rights activists in Russia and Iran are on the agenda. For the third consecutive year, the Nobel Peace Center is arranging an international peace conference and festival about the…

The Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation has appointed a new Chair. Astrid Söderbergh Widding, President of Stockholm University, is assuming the position. Sven Nyman, MSc, has also been elected as a new member of the Board.  “It is gratifying that Astrid Söderbergh Widding has agreed to become our new chair. She has extensive…

The market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital amount­ed to SEK 5,799 m (6,103) at the end of 2022. Excluding the value of the Foundation’s directly owned properties, investment capital amounted to SEK 5,515 m (5,720). This generated a return of -2.0 (+18.4) per cent during 2022. During the past five years, investment…

‘Nobel Prize Conversations’ is returning with new episodes. This time out, listeners meet the class of 2022 Nobel Prize laureates including Morten Meldal, Carolyn Bertozzi and Svante Pääbo, who share tales from their lives, their careers, and their failures and successes.  In the first episode – launched today – host Adam Smith speaks to 2022 chemistry laureate…

A gift with a powerful story behind it has been presented to the Nobel Prize Museum. Nelly Sachs’ suitcase reminds us of Europe during World War II and the escape of a mother and daughter from Nazi terror in Berlin to Sweden. The contents of the suitcase were the only things they carried with them.…

H2 Green Steel and Nobel Prize Outreach have partnered up to inspire, spread knowledge and innovate around scientific creativity, sustainability and digitalization. With the agreement H2 Green Steel joins the select group of Nobel International Partners.  H2 Green Steel was launched in 2021 with a clear purpose to accelerate the decarbonization of hard-to-abate industries. Steel…

Registration is now open for the Nobel Prize Summit which will convene Nobel Prize laureates and other world-renowned experts and leaders for a global conversation on how to stop misinformation from eroding public trust in science, scientists, and the institutions they serve. Hosted by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation, the…

The Nobel Peace Center and the foundation Marengarden invite to a film premiere and dialogue meeting with two fathers and one mother who have lost their children in terror on two sides of a conflict. Lola Salines was 28 years old when she was shot and killed in the Bataclan terror attack in Paris. 28-year-old…

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 2-9 October. All of the prize announcements will be broadcast live on the official digital channels of the Nobel Prize. In-depth information about the prizes will be published at . The prize-awarding institutions have decided to announce their 2023 prize decisions as follows: PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE – Monday,…

During the four years that poet and 2020 literature laureate was working on ‘Averno’, she listened intensely to music by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. She has now donated the record, which is on display at the Nobel Prize Museum together with artefacts from other Nobel Prize laureates. Louise Glück’s tenth collection of poems, ‘Averno’,…