Nobel Prize

The focus is now on the discoveries and contributions this year’s Nobel Laureates have made for the greatest benefit of humankind. During the next week or so, the Laureates will participate in a number of public events. Singer-songwriter Anna von Hausswolff will be among the performers at the Nobel Banquet’s Divertissement, featuring new music by…

The world-famous artist Marina Abramović will deliver a performance lecture at the Nobel Week Dialogue in Stockholm. Next week Abramović is launching an app called Rising, letting users make active choices to take better care of the environment. The app is commissioned by Nobel Media, and is released as a countdown to her participation on 9…

On 9 December the Nobel Week Dialogue will take place. Under the slogan “every drop is precious” this year’s dialogue will be turning its attention to the topic of water. Nobel Laureates will be attending together with scientists, experts, key opinion leaders and policy makers. Registration for the general public and media will open today on…

“Today the Nobel Foundation has learned about developments made over the past 24 hours with the work of restoring the Swedish Academy. What has happened, in our assessment, is a step in the right direction,” says the Chairman of the Nobel Foundation, Carl-Henrik Heldin. The Nobel Foundation will continue to closely follow the progress of…

Joint investment in the power of ideas and the worldwide inspiration of The Nobel Prize [Stockholm] ABB and Nobel Media today announced an international partnership, bring­ing together two respected organizations committed to the development of innovation, education and scientific research, making ABB one of a select group of Nobel Interna­tional Partners. Nobel Media, an entity…

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…