Nobel Prize

The new exhibition highlights three of the crucial medical discoveries of the 20th century: insulin, polio vaccine and penicillin. Three new documentary films explore how researchers and health care professionals are building on the foundation laid by Nobel Prize laureates in medicine to prevent and treat diseases today. The exhibition opens on 16 May. Thethree…

Nobel Prize Conversations “When we remember, what we’re doing is just making up a story that sounds plausible to us. That’s what memories are.” Join podcast host Adam Smith as he speaks to physicist Geoffrey Hinton, often called the godfather of AI. They discuss Hinton’s childhood memories and how his family legacy of successful scientists…

Medicine laureate has donated a library card to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. The card dates back to the 1970s and holds significant personal meaning for him as a symbol of science and knowledge.   The library card is from the Sunnyvale Public Library, where Andrew Fire grew up in the 1970s. “I consider this…

The market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital amounted to SEK 6,797 m (6,233) at the end of 2024. Excluding the value of the Foundation’s directly owned properties, investment capital amounted to SEK 6,600 m (6,041). This generated a return of +11.6 (+10.7) per cent during 2024. During the past five years, investment capital…

The Peace Prize exhibition “A Message to Humanity” will be on board as the cruise ship Peace Boat sets sail from Japan today. The exhibition will visit 19 different countries during the ship’s voyage around the world. Yokohama, 23 April: A unique international collaboration is now bringing the Nobel Peace Center’s exhibition about last year’s peace…

During late March, two high-profile Nobel Peace Prize laureates visited Stockholm. Filipino journalist Maria Ressa has led the fight for press freedom in the Philippines and Leymah Gbowee’s peaceful protests helped end the second Liberian civil war in 2003. During their visit, they spoke to students, teachers and a broader Stockholm audience about courage, struggle and democracy. 

The Nobel Prize Museum is adding a fountain pen to its collection of artefacts from laureates. The pen belonged to author Ivo Andrić (1892–1975), who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. At the museum in Stockholm to hand over the pen are representatives from the Belgrade City Museum, who have had this…

On 7 March, the exhibition Snow and Rain Shall Pass will open at the Nobel Prize Museum. A selection of Karin Alfredsson’s photographs as well as her short film Arctic Ocean – A Journey to the North Pole will be on display together with poems by Jon Fosse, the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in literature.…

When visitors got to be in the picture, it became better ‒ so much better that it won the Nobel Prize Museum’s photo contest from Nobel Week Lights. And the people who took the opportunity to visit the 2024 light festival made a record-breaking number of visits. Figures from research companies Ipsos and Exquiro show…

How will our lives be lived in the future? This question and many more will be discussed from 8-10 of March. Several Nobel Prize laureates and other experts will explore how science and technology, combined with a better understanding of the world around us, might change our lives in the future. Students are invited to…