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September 2023

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Press information from the Nobel Foundation

2 September 2023

The decision by the Nobel Foundation to invite all ambassadors to the Nobel Prize award ceremony, in accordance with previous practice, has provoked strong reactions.   The basis for the decision is that we believe that it is important and right to reach out as widely as possible with the values and messages that the Nobel…

August 2023

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

New practice for invitations to the Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet

31 August 2023

The Nobel Foundation has decided to henceforth invite representatives of all parties that have parliamentary representation in Sweden through democratic elections to the Nobel festivities on 10 December. “It is clear that the world is increasingly divided into spheres, where dialogue between those with differing views is being reduced,” says Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director of…

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Experimental theatre concept to be presented at the Nobel Prize Museum

28 August 2023

A theatre performance is currently emerging at the Nobel Prize Museum. Actors Katarina Krogh and Fabian Hedlund, together with director Johan Bark and Nobel Prize Museum curator Carin Klaesson, are creating a completely new production based on texts from Nobel Prize laureates in literature. 30 September marks the premiere of the performance, which has emerged…

July 2023

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Chain on display at Nobel Prize Museum this summer

3 July 2023

A powerful, much-used chain, which has been employed in the struggle to draw attention to political prisons who are incarcerated in Russia, has been added to the Nobel Prize Museum’s collection. The Center for Civil Liberties ‒ one of three 2022 Nobel Peace Prize recipients ‒ donated this artefact, which will be on display at…

June 2023

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Esa-Pekka Salonen will conduct and Julia Fischer will be the violin soloist at the 2023 Nobel Prize Concert

28 June 2023

This year’s Nobel Prize Concert brings together world-renowned conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and acclaimed violinist Julia Fischer, together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. On 8 December, works by Boccherini, Brahms and Ravel will be performed on the Konserthuset Stockholm stage. The audience can also hear a work by the exciting young composer Gabriella Smith. Finnish-born…

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

New exhibition will dive into the world of fungi

27 June 2023

Throughout history, humans have been fascinated by fungi. They are all around us and inside us, but they often remain invisible. In September, a new exhibition opening at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm will showcase how both art and science explore fungi. The visitor will be greeted by everything from Carsten Höller’s sculptures of…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize laureates visit Korea to discuss future learning

21 June 2023

Humans are facing existential challenges. On 24 September laureates and other experts will meet in Seoul, Korea to discuss how future generations can equip themselves to tackle these pressing questions – what do we need to know and how should we learn it to be able to build a better world? Students from high schools…

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

Five Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Oslo this August

16 June 2023

Five Nobel Peace Prize laureates are among the speakers at the annual Nobel Peace Conference in Oslo 31 August. Indigenous rights and the situation for human rights activists in Russia and Iran are on the agenda. For the third consecutive year, the Nobel Peace Center is arranging an international peace conference and festival about the…

May 2023

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Astrid Söderbergh Widding appointed new Chair of the Nobel Foundation

4 May 2023

The Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation has appointed a new Chair. Astrid Söderbergh Widding, President of Stockholm University, is assuming the position. Sven Nyman, MSc, has also been elected as a new member of the Board.  “It is gratifying that Astrid Söderbergh Widding has agreed to become our new chair. She has extensive…

April 2023

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

The Nobel Foundation’s 2022 asset management and earnings

28 April 2023

The market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital amount­ed to SEK 5,799 m (6,103) at the end of 2022. Excluding the value of the Foundation’s directly owned properties, investment capital amounted to SEK 5,515 m (5,720). This generated a return of -2.0 (+18.4) per cent during 2022. During the past five years, investment…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

New episodes of popular podcast series

27 April 2023

‘Nobel Prize Conversations’ is returning with new episodes. This time out, listeners meet the class of 2022 Nobel Prize laureates including Morten Meldal, Carolyn Bertozzi and Svante Pääbo, who share tales from their lives, their careers, and their failures and successes.  In the first episode – launched today – host Adam Smith speaks to 2022 chemistry laureate…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize Outreach and H2 Green Steel announce partnership

10 April 2023

H2 Green Steel and Nobel Prize Outreach have partnered up to inspire, spread knowledge and innovate around scientific creativity, sustainability and digitalization. With the agreement H2 Green Steel joins the select group of Nobel International Partners.  H2 Green Steel was launched in 2021 with a clear purpose to accelerate the decarbonization of hard-to-abate industries. Steel…

March 2023

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Registration for Nobel Prize Summit is now open

20 March 2023

Registration is now open for the Nobel Prize Summit which will convene Nobel Prize laureates and other world-renowned experts and leaders for a global conversation on how to stop misinformation from eroding public trust in science, scientists, and the institutions they serve. Hosted by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation, the…

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

Reconciliation after terror

13 March 2023

The Nobel Peace Center and the foundation Marengarden invite to a film premiere and dialogue meeting with two fathers and one mother who have lost their children in terror on two sides of a conflict. Lola Salines was 28 years old when she was shot and killed in the Bataclan terror attack in Paris. 28-year-old…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

The 2023 Nobel Prize announcements

9 March 2023

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 2-9 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 2023 prize decisions as follows: PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE – Monday,…

February 2023

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Louise Glück donates Mahler record to Nobel Prize Museum

26 February 2023

During the four years that poet and 2020 literature laureate was working on ‘Averno’, she listened intensely to music by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. She has now donated the record, which is on display at the Nobel Prize Museum together with artefacts from other Nobel Prize laureates. Louise Glück’s tenth collection of poems, ‘Averno’,…

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Nobel Prize Museum is displaying books from Svante Pääbo

6 February 2023

During the Nobel Week in December, medicine laureate Svante Pääbo donated a two-volume natural science encyclopaedia to the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm’s Old Town. He had received these books from his father Sune Bergström, who was awarded the Nobel Prize forty years earlier. Now the books are on display at the museum.    “My…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Nobel Prize Summit on countering misinformation and building trust in science to be held May 24-26

1 February 2023

The Nobel Prize Summit Truth, Trust and Hope will bring together Nobel Prize laureates and other world-renowned experts and leaders for a global dialogue on how to stop misinformation from eroding public trust in science, scientists, and the institutions they serve. Speakers will include Nobel Prize laureates such as journalist and author Maria Ressa and astrophysicist…