Nobel Prize

The Nobel Foundation’s Board of Directors has decided that the 2020 Nobel Prize will amount to 10 million SEK per prize category. That means an increase of 1 million SEK per prize category compared to prior years. The work done in recent years to strengthen the Nobel Foundation’s financial standing has made it possible to…

The first week of October is coming closer, when this year’s Nobel Prizes, and the achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, will be announced. On 5-12 October, the prize awarding institutions will make their announcements and the press conferences can be followed via the Nobel Prize’s official digital channels. The ongoing global…

As a build-up to this year’s Nobel Prizes – which will be announced 5-12 October – new episodes of the podcast series Nobel Prize Conversations are being launched. In these episodes, the listener will meet two Economic Sciences laureates: Daniel Kahneman and Esther Duflo. In the podcast series ‘Nobel Prize Conversations’, the listener gets the…

The global pandemic and the COVID-19 situation are having a very broad impact on society. Events that bring together many participants are being postponed or reconfigured. This situation will also affect the 2020 Nobel Week, which will adopt new formats to celebrate and pay tribute to this year’s Laureates. Each December all the Laureates, their…

On 2 July, the Nobel Prize Museum on Stortorget, the main square in Stockholm’s Old Town, will reopen under controlled conditions. New to the museum is a mini-exhibition about viruses, pandemics and the Nobel Prize. Visitors who cannot travel to the museum during the summer can also view the exhibition digitally. Throughout history, humans have…

Vidar Helgesen – Norway’s former State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister of European Affairs and Minister of Climate and the Environment – will become the new Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation at the beginning of 2021. He will thus assume the task of strengthening the long-term finances and position of the…

What will our children’s and our grandchildren’s planet look like? What can we do today to prevent the worst catastrophes? And is there a light at the end of this tunnel where a sustainable and prosperous world can be found? These are the questions Johan Rockström, Professor of Earth System Science, will address when the…

The Nobel Prize, National Geographic Documentary Films and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel have collaborated on a 5-part short documentary series, celebrating the ongoing impact and influence of Nobel Peace Prize laureates around the world. On 20 May, the 5 films will be launched simultaneously on the National Geographic channel and on YouTube. The…

The market value of the Nobel Foundation’s capital was SEK 4,902 m at the end of 2019. The total market value of investment capital (total invested capital excluding directly owned properties) amounted to SEK 4,618 m. During 2019, return on this investment capital was +16.6 per cent. The economic crisis of recent months connected to…

On Earth Day, 22 April 2020, Greta Thunberg and Johan Rockström will meet for a digital conversation about courage, solidarity and opportunities in times of crisis streamed from the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm. The call will be broadcast live for a global audience. This year marks 50 years since Earth Day was first organised…