Nobel Prize

The Nobel Week Lights festival has been under way since 3 December to welcome Stockholm residents and visitors to join in celebrating the Nobel Week. It includes riding on illuminated seesaws in Charles XII Square and singing at the Stockholm Cathedral, which affects the artistic work on the façade. At the Royal Palace, spectators will…

The chef and pastry chef for this year’s Nobel Prize banquet are both new, but they have had plenty of time to plan. The COVID-19 pandemic and two cancelled banquets have made their wait extra-long. Jimmi Eriksson and Annie Hesselstad accepted the assignment as chef and pastry chef three years ago. There have been several…

The Nobel Prize banquet is back, with Nobel Prize laureates and other guests being welcomed to the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall for the first time since 2019. This will be celebrated with a grand musical divertissement. Singer-songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright will guide the audience through his musical universe together with opera singer…

December 6 – 12 will mark the 2022 Nobel Week. The Nobel Foundation has invited this year’s Nobel Prize laureates together with laureates from 2020 and 2021. No fewer than 27 laureates will attend this year’s festivities in Stockholm. A number of other previous laureates will also participate in the Nobel Week Dialogue science conference…

The Nobel Prize Dialogue will be held in Australia for the first time, with a virtual pre-event in 2023 and a major public conference in Sydney in 2024. “Global Access Partners and Nobel Prize Outreach believe that bringing people together to share ideas and expertise and question how we want our future to be can…

The 2022 Nobel Week Lights festival will take place from 3 to 11 December – with Nobel Prize laureates on hand in Stockholm for the first time. One innovation this year will be an artistic light installation on the Royal Palace, and visitors are being promised more interactivity. Nobel Prize-awarded LED technology will make the…

For several decades, the Nobel Foundation’s starting point has been to invite all countries with diplomatic representation in Sweden to the Nobel Prize award ceremony, where we celebrate the laureates’ contributions to science, literature and peace. This year, however, the Nobel Foundation has decided to follow the Swedish and European diplomatic policy of not inviting…

Registration is now open for this year’s Nobel Week Dialogue, a day-long scientific conference in Stockholm on 9 December that will explore how life on earth may look in the future. Nobel Week Dialogue 2022 will feature an interdisciplinary array of Nobel Prize laureates, including Frances Arnold, Andrea Ghez, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Benjamin List, Paul Nurse…

Water pollution, floods and a rising sea level. The challenges facing people worldwide when it comes to water management are enormous. To discuss these kind of issues, Nobel Prize laureates, environmentalists and scientists will gather on 23 October in Yokohama for a Nobel Prize Dialogue. The event is free to attend and the program offers…

This year’s Nobel diplomas were revealed at the Nobel Peace Center Saturday. The peace prize laureates will receive an art work by the famous Norwegian artist Håkon Bleken. Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022. In…