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December 2022

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Detailed information for media about the Nobel Week

7 December 2022

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…

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Illuminated seesaws and a magnificent globe – the light festival is fully under way

5 December 2022

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…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

The Nobel Prize banquet gets a new chef and a new pastry chef

4 December 2022

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…

November 2022

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

A grand musical celebration of the return of the Nobel festivities

29 November 2022

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…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Record number of laureates on hand in Stockholm for this year’s Nobel Week

22 November 2022

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…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Global Access Partners and Nobel Prize Outreach plan for Sydney Dialogue

16 November 2022

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…

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Nobel Prize laureates will be on hand during a festival that illuminates science and art

9 November 2022

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…

October 2022

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Information to the media from the Nobel Foundation

27 October 2022

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…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Week scientific conference will explore the future of life

19 October 2022

Registration is now open for this year’s Nobel Week Dialogue, a day-long scientific conference in Stockholm on 9 December that will explore how life on earth may look in the future. Nobel Week Dialogue 2022 will feature an interdisciplinary array of Nobel Prize laureates, including Frances Arnold, Andrea Ghez, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Benjamin List, Paul Nurse…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Water matters when Nobel Prize laureates visit Yokohama

17 October 2022

Water pollution, floods and a rising sea level. The challenges facing people worldwide when it comes to water management are enormous. To discuss these kind of issues, Nobel Prize laureates, environmentalists and scientists will gather on 23 October in Yokohama for a Nobel Prize Dialogue. The event is free to attend and the program offers…

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

Nobel diplomas revealed

7 October 2022

This year’s Nobel diplomas were revealed at the Nobel Peace Center Saturday. The peace prize laureates will receive an art work by the famous Norwegian artist Håkon Bleken. Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022. In…

September 2022

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

The Nobel Prize Museum’s Life Eternal exhibition opens at Liljevalchs this weekend

29 September 2022

On 1 October, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition, Life Eternal, will open at Liljevalchs (the Liljevalch Art Gallery) in Stockholm. The exhibition – which brings together science, art and cultural history – shows different approaches to eternity, explores the crucial issues of our era and offers hope for the future. At the same time…

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Invitation to the media – Life Eternal

11 September 2022

On 1 October, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition entitled “Life Eternal” will open at Liljevalchs (Liljevalch Art Gallery) in Stockholm. A media preview tour will take place starting at 10.00 on 29 September at Liljevalchs. The exhibition brings together science, art and cultural history. It shows different approaches to eternity, explores the crucial issues…

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

Nobel Laureates launched action plan to support journalism and fight disinformation

2 September 2022

An action plan to address the information crisis was launched at The Nobel Peace Center’s Freedom of Expression Conference today. Nobel Peace Prize laureates Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, together with other signatories, call for urgent action to save democracy. The two Nobel Peace Prize laureates both talked at the Nobel Peace Center’s Freedom of…

August 2022

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

Nobel Peace Prize laureates featured in new Minecraft game

29 August 2022

New ‘Peace Builders’ Learning Experience Launches in Minecraft to Inspire Youth to Build a Better World. Gamers from across the world are invited to a virtual Nobel Peace Center. Starting August 30, Minecraft players around the world can explore the stories of Nobel Peace Prize laureates and discover ways to mitigate conflict, build peace, and…

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

Ressa and Muratov visit Oslo in September

1 August 2022

Peace Prize laureates and are coming to Oslo to take part in the Nobel Peace Center’s Freedom of Expression Conference on 2 September. Since they received the prize in December 2021 their situation have been worse, but they both continue to fight for a free and independent press. “We are very happy to be able…

June 2022

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Nobel Prize Museum creates exhibition about eternal life at Liljevalchs

29 June 2022

On 1 October, the Nobel Prize Museum’s new exhibition entitled Life Eternal will open at Liljevalchs art gallery in Stockholm. The exhibition – which brings together science, art and cultural history – shows different approaches to eternity, explores the crucial issues of our era and offers hope for the future. Can we outwit death? That…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Meeting of minds as Nobel Prize laureates and youth discuss wellbeing in Singapore

29 June 2022

On 13 September 2022 a Nobel Prize Dialogue will be held in Singapore with Nobel Prize laureates, students and other experts. The theme for the event is how people’s lives can be improved and how to make a better future. Rising global temperatures, global pandemics, war in Europe, intensifying geopolitical tensions in Asia and the…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize laureates talk about the importance of imagination at work

21 June 2022

On 7 July an exclusive conversation with two Nobel Prize laureates will be held in Madrid. They will be invited to talk about their attitudes towards diversity, curiosity and the importance of being able to use imagination in their work. The event is open for the public and media to attend. Ardem Patapoutian (2021 Nobel…