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…
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…
‘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…
A gift with a powerful story behind it has been presented to the Nobel Prize Museum. Nelly Sachs’ suitcase reminds us of Europe during World War II and the escape of a mother and daughter from Nazi terror in Berlin to Sweden. The contents of the suitcase were the only things they carried with them.…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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’,…
How does it look when a person is shaping the ideas behind a literary classic, the discovery of black holes or the search for clues to the riddle of ageing? This work is depicted in the Nobel Prize Museum’s exhibition From Idea to Nobel Prize, which opens on Valentine’s Day, 14 February. There is a…
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…
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…
This year’s laureates are 14 in number, including one person and two organisations that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Here you can find more information about the Nobel Week. Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded 615 times to 989 laureates. Because some have been awarded the prize twice, a total of…
The Nobel Week Lights festival has been under way since 3 December to welcome Stockholm residents and visitors to join in celebrating the Nobel Week. It includes riding on illuminated seesaws in Charles XII Square and singing at the Stockholm Cathedral, which affects the artistic work on the façade. At the Royal Palace, spectators will…
The chef and pastry chef for this year’s Nobel Prize banquet are both new, but they have had plenty of time to plan. The COVID-19 pandemic and two cancelled banquets have made their wait extra-long. Jimmi Eriksson and Annie Hesselstad accepted the assignment as chef and pastry chef three years ago. There have been several…
The Nobel Prize banquet is back, with Nobel Prize laureates and other guests being welcomed to the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall for the first time since 2019. This will be celebrated with a grand musical divertissement. Singer-songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright will guide the audience through his musical universe together with opera singer…
December 6 – 12 will mark the 2022 Nobel Week. The Nobel Foundation has invited this year’s Nobel Prize laureates together with laureates from 2020 and 2021. No fewer than 27 laureates will attend this year’s festivities in Stockholm. A number of other previous laureates will also participate in the Nobel Week Dialogue science conference…
The Nobel Prize Dialogue will be held in Australia for the first time, with a virtual pre-event in 2023 and a major public conference in Sydney in 2024. “Global Access Partners and Nobel Prize Outreach believe that bringing people together to share ideas and expertise and question how we want our future to be can…
The 2022 Nobel Week Lights festival will take place from 3 to 11 December – with Nobel Prize laureates on hand in Stockholm for the first time. One innovation this year will be an artistic light installation on the Royal Palace, and visitors are being promised more interactivity. Nobel Prize-awarded LED technology will make the…
For several decades, the Nobel Foundation’s starting point has been to invite all countries with diplomatic representation in Sweden to the Nobel Prize award ceremony, where we celebrate the laureates’ contributions to science, literature and peace. This year, however, the Nobel Foundation has decided to follow the Swedish and European diplomatic policy of not inviting…