Nobel Prize

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…

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 6-13 October. All of the prize announcements will be broadcast live on the official digital channels of the Nobel Prize. In-depth information about the prizes will be published at .  The prize awarding institutions have decided to announce their 2025 prize decisions as follows: PHYSIOLOGY OR…

Richard J Roberts was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries of split genes.

Geoffrey Hinton was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on machine learning with artificial neural networks.

Hanna Stjärne, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation since 2025, is a prominent Swedish journalist and media executive. She has led Sveriges Radio, Upsala Nya Tidning, and SVT, focusing on digitalisation, Swedish content, and modernising public service.

Eva Olsson received her PhD from Chalmers. She was a postdoc at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights (New York, USA), a faculty at Chalmers, a full professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, and is currently a full professor at Chalmers.