Nobel Prize

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place 1-8 October. The prize sum for 2018 has been set to 9 million SEK per prize category. All the announcements will be broadcast live on the official website of the Nobel Prize, The Swedish Academy has decided to postpone the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, with the…

The Nobel Foundation supports the Swedish Academy’s decision to postpone the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature The Swedish Academy has decided to postpone the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, with the intention of awarding it in 2019. According to the Swedish Foundations Act, the Nobel Foundation is ultimately responsible for fulfilling the intentions in the…

The Nobel Foundation is ultimately responsible for ensuring that the intentions of the will of Alfred Nobel are fulfilled. The main mission of the Foundation is to manage the assets left behind by Nobel, as well as the extensive intellectual property related to the Nobel Prize that has developed during more than a century. The…

Due to the development of events within the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Foundation’s Board met today to discuss the current situation. The Nobel Foundation follows the chain of events at the Swedish Academy with great concern, and considers the information regarding violations of Nobel Prize rules to be serious. The very foundation of the Nobel…

With firm belief that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s message of social justice and equality is as important today as ever before, the Nobel Museum and Nobel Media now launches a project on the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and his nonviolent struggle for rights and freedoms. The exhibition The Right to Freedom – Martin Luther…

Nobel Media and Ramón Areces Foundation have signed an agreement for a Nobel Prize Dialogue to take place in Madrid for the first time in May 2019. The one-day meeting will bring together Nobel Laureates, world-leading scientists, policy makers and a general audience to discuss new scientific and cultural perspectives on ageing. Nobel Prize Dialogue…

What role does food play in our lives? Who influences our food choices and how do these impact our planet? These are some of the questions to be discussed when five Nobel Laureates, students and leading experts meet on 11 March. During the day they will share the latest findings and different perspectives in the…

The exhibition ‘The Nobel Prize: Ideas Changing the World’ is inaugurated by Honourable Chief Minister of Goa, Mr. Manohar Parrikar on 1 February at Kala Academy. It is the beginning of a five-day unique programme to stimulate engagement in science, literature and peace that will take place in Goa, Mumbai and New Delhi. Nobel Laureates…

From 1 February, a five-day unique programme to stimulate engagement in science, literature and peace will take place in Goa, Mumbai and New Delhi. During Nobel Prize Series, five Nobel Laureates will give lectures and take part in roundtable discussions and meetings together with experts and students from several universities. The exhibition ‘The Nobel Prize:…

An agreement has been signed by Nobel Media and Future Challenges, Science, Technology and Innovation Commission to host a Nobel Prize Dialogue for the first time in Santiago, Chile in January 2019. The one-day meeting will bring together Nobel Laureates, world-leading scientists, policy makers and a general audience to discuss topical issues relevant to the…