Nobel Prize

An intensive Nobel Week is now beginning in Stockholm, with a focus on this year’s Laureates and their contributions to the greatest benefit to mankind. As part of a broad range of public events, the discoveries and achievements of the Laureates can be experienced in the form of virtual reality installations, design, photography and music.…

What does truth mean? Can we trust science? Can the truth change? These and many more questions will be discussed during Nobel Week Dialogue on 9 December 2017 in Gothenburg. Registration for the event opens today. Nobel Week Dialogue is an open and free of charge event where science meets society during the Nobel Week…

General Information The events during the Nobel Week are organized by the Nobel Foundation, the Nobel Museum or the prize awarding institutions. This means that there are several different institutions to contact for the various events. Please note that there is no general accreditation valid for the entire week, each organizer must be contacted separately.…

The 2017 Nobel Prize announcements will begin Monday 2 October. Time and dates for all announcements (local time in Sweden): THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE – Monday 2 October, 11:30 a.m. at the earliest THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS – Tuesday 3 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY – Wednesday…

The Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation decided at its meeting on September 14, 2017 that the 2017 Nobel Prize will amount to SEK 9 million per prize category. This represents an increase of SEK 1 million compared to the previous years – With the announcements of the 2017 Nobel Laureates starting next week,…

On 30 October 2017, a Nobel Prize Dialogue will take place in Seoul. Nobel Laureates, key opinion leaders, policy makers, students, researchers and the general public will meet to discuss “The Age to Come”, exploring the challenges of an ageing population and how AI can support humans. “Nobel Prize Dialogue is one of the pillars…

English Nobel Lecture by Aung San Suu Kyi, Oslo, 16 June, 2012 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highness, Excellencies, Distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Dear Friends, Long years ago, sometimes it seems many lives…

English Youth Acid and sword blade: the fragrance of plum in the pathways: tooth’s sweetmeat of kisses, power and spilth on the fingers, the yielding erotic of pulps, hayricks and threshing floors, clandestine recesses that tempt through the vastness of houses; bolsters asleep in the past, the bitter green valley, seen from above, from 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…

The prize committees are currently working carefully and independently to select the recipients of the 2017 Nobel Prize and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The Laureates will be announced starting on October 2, revealing the scientists, writers and peace workers who – in keeping with the vision of…