Nobel Prize

Between 4 and 11 October the prize awarding institutions will announce this year’s Nobel Prize laureates. All their press conferences will be shown on the official Nobel Prize digital channels. It is now also clear that this year’s Nobel festivities in December − when the laureates are honoured in Stockholm and Oslo − will be…

The Nobel Prize Museum on Stortorget, the main square in Stockholm’s Old Town (Gamla stan), is reopening to visitors on 21 August. They can view the first major exhibition about the Nobel Prize banquet – focusing on the food, the clothing, the decorations and the laureates’ speeches. This new exhibition takes you behind the scenes. …

In December 2020 the acclaimed Nobel Week Lights festival took place in Stockholm. Sixteen light installations – many of them directly inspired by earlier Nobel Prizes – illuminated locations and buildings around the Swedish capital. It has now been decided that the festival will return this year.  On Wednesday, June 23, the City of Stockholm…

Inge Thulin, a leading international business executive, is joining the board of Nobel Prize Outreach. The company, which is part of the growing public activities connected to the Nobel Prize, works to spread knowledge about Nobel Prize-awarded achievements and to stimulate interest in science, literature and peace efforts throughout the world. Vidar Helgesen, executive director…

Acclaimed Argentina-born cellist Sol Gabetta will be performing at this year’s Nobel Prize Concert on 8 December. Sol Gabetta. Photo: Julia Wesley Sol Gabetta performs regularly with world-leading orchestras and conductors and has received several awards. Her charismatic stage personality and captivating interpretations have paved the way for a career that has taken her to…

Organizers of the recent Nobel Prize Summit shared a statement titled “Our Planet, Our Future: An Urgent Call for Action” — issued by the summit’s steering committee and co-signed by 126 Nobel laureates — with leaders of the G-7 countries and the U.N. secretary general, as well as other groups.  In a letter, the Nobel…

The Board of Directors of the Nobel Prize Museum has gained two new members. Stein Olav Henrichsen is Director of Munchmuseet (MUNCH) in Oslo, Norway. Also newly elected to the board is Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary General of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine.  It is about…

As millions around the world try to cope with the disruptions caused by the pandemic, the questions and challenges facing present and future generations of workers are thrown into starker relief. What working life will mean in the future will be discussed together with laureates and experts on 18 and 19 May 2021 at an…

The market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital amount­ed to SEK 5,176 m at the end of 2020. Excluding the value of the Foundation’s directly owned properties, investment capital amounted to SEK 4,882 m at the end of the year. During 2020, return on investment capital was +8.5%. The Nobel Foundation is ultimately…

Brian P. Schmidt received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the accelerating expansion of the Universe.