Nobel Prize

The late Danish senior lecturer Niels Christian Thostrup bequeathed more than half of his assets to the Nobel Foundation. Mr Thostrup had a lifelong interest in physics and mathematics, especially mathematical physics. “We are very grateful for this bequest and for Niels Christian Thostrup’s faith in the Nobel Foundation. It is uncommon but obviously very…

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 3-10 October. The Nobel Foundation has also decided to invite the 2022 Nobel Prize laureates to the Nobel Week in Stockholm in December together with the 2020 and 2021 laureates. A prize award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm (the Stockholm Concert Hall) and a banquet at the…

The ‘Active Citizen’ game, which features Nobel Peace laureates like the Dalai Lama and Malala Yousafzai, will be available in 29 languages for all Minecraft: Education Edition players.  Oslo, 1 March 2022: In Minecraft, one of the world’s most popular games, players can build anything they want — including their vision for world peace. Today, the…

During the Nobel Day, 10 December 2021, the official Nobel Prize websites were subjected to a cyberattack that has now been reported to the police by the Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian Nobel Institute. The attack was averted and did not affect website users’ experience or the dissemination of content.  A so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…

When the Nobel Peace Prize laureates Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were in Oslo, they were documented as holograms, securing their legacy for generations to come.  When the two Nobel Peace Prize laureates arrived in Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, they were also asked to be captured in 3D for the Metaverse. Ressa…

Presentation speech by Berit Reiss-Andersen. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Jo Straube. English Copyright © The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 2021. General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language. Publication in periodicals or books, or in digital or electronic forms, otherwise than in summary, requires the consent of the Foundation. On all…

The 2021 Nobel Prize award ceremony will be a specially designed event at the Stockholm City Hall. Anne Sofie von Otter and Kiralina Salandy will sing, Bengan Janson will play accordion and Karin Hammar will play trombone. The master of ceremonies will be actress Lena Olin. This year’s Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm will…

Hannah Reyes Morales and Nanna Heitmann are this year’s Nobel Peace Prize photographers. They have been on assignment for the Nobel Peace Center in Manila and Moscow. On 11. December, the day after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the Peace Prize laureates, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, come to the Nobel Peace Center…

On 24 November, the Nobel Prize Museum will be visited by the heads of the Spanish and Swedish royal families. They have been invited for a guided tour of a special exhibition that will display the drawings of Nobel Prize laureate Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Also on display will be works by contemporary visual artists…

What will urban life be like in the future, and how would we like to see it evolve? This year’s Nobel Week Dialogue will bring together science and society for an in-depth look at “The City of the Future “. On 9 December four laureates will join architects, writers, young leaders and experts to discuss…