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April 2022

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

New season of Nobel Prize podcast featuring most recent laureates

20 April 2022

‘Nobel Prize Conversations’ is back with a new season featuring our newest batch of Nobel Prize laureates from 2021. Get to know the individuals behind the prizes when the season begins on 28 April. Episode one of the new season features football fan and chemistry laureate David MacMillan. Together with podcast host Adam Smith, he…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Opera star Diana Damrau will take the stage to pay tribute to the 2022 Nobel Prize laureates

20 April 2022

Bringing extra star power to this year’s Nobel Prize Concert on 8 December will be German soprano Diana Damrau. Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck will lead the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the concert, which is held in honour of the Nobel Prize laureates. “The Nobel Prize Concert is a highly appreciated feature of the Nobel…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Nobel Foundation receives large Dansh bequest

18 April 2022

The late Danish senior lecturer Niels Christian Thostrup bequeathed more than half of his assets to the Nobel Foundation. Mr Thostrup had a lifelong interest in physics and mathematics, especially mathematical physics. “We are very grateful for this bequest and for Niels Christian Thostrup’s faith in the Nobel Foundation. It is uncommon but obviously very…

March 2022

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

The 2022 Nobel Prize announcements

10 March 2022

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 3-10 October. The Nobel Foundation has also decided to invite the 2022 Nobel Prize laureates to the Nobel Week in Stockholm in December together with the 2020 and 2021 laureates. A prize award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm (the Stockholm Concert Hall) and a banquet at the…

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

Nobel Peace Center Launches New Minecraft Learning Experience to Inspire Youth to Build a Better, More Peaceful World

1 March 2022

The ‘Active Citizen’ game, which features Nobel Peace laureates like the Dalai Lama and Malala Yousafzai, will be available in 29 languages for all Minecraft: Education Edition players.  Oslo, 1 March 2022: In Minecraft, one of the world’s most popular games, players can build anything they want — including their vision for world peace. Today, the…

January 2022

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

The Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian Nobel Institute report a cyberattack to the police

21 January 2022

During the Nobel Day, 10 December 2021, the official Nobel Prize websites were subjected to a cyberattack that has now been reported to the police by the Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian Nobel Institute. The attack was averted and did not affect website users’ experience or the dissemination of content.  A so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…

December 2021

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

Holograms will let the whole world meet Nobel Peace Prize laureates

12 December 2021

When the Nobel Peace Prize laureates Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were in Oslo, they were documented as holograms, securing their legacy for generations to come.  When the two Nobel Peace Prize laureates arrived in Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, they were also asked to be captured in 3D for the Metaverse. Ressa…

November 2021

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Swedish star performers on stage as the 2021 Nobel Prize laureates are honoured in Stockholm

28 November 2021

The 2021 Nobel Prize award ceremony will be a specially designed event at the Stockholm City Hall. Anne Sofie von Otter and Kiralina Salandy will sing, Bengan Janson will play accordion and Karin Hammar will play trombone. The master of ceremonies will be actress Lena Olin. This year’s Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm will…

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

Young photographers in Moscow and Manila behind this year’s Nobel Peace Prize exhibition

25 November 2021

Hannah Reyes Morales and Nanna Heitmann are this year’s Nobel Peace Prize photographers. They have been on assignment for the Nobel Peace Center in Manila and Moscow. On 11. December, the day after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the Peace Prize laureates, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, come to the Nobel Peace Center…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

A focus on urban development during Nobel Week

18 November 2021

What will urban life be like in the future, and how would we like to see it evolve? This year’s Nobel Week Dialogue will bring together science and society for an in-depth look at “The City of the Future “. On 9 December four laureates will join architects, writers, young leaders and experts to discuss…

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Capgemini and Nobel Prize Outreach announce international partnership

12 November 2021

Capgemini joins the select group of Nobel International Partners. The partnership is for at least three years and aims to share knowledge, inspire people to contribute to a better world and shed light on our time’s greatest challenges.   “Capgemini and Nobel Prize Outreach share the same vision of innovation as the foundation of a more…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

How the 2021 Nobel Prizes will be presented

11 November 2021

The arrangements have now been completed for how this year’s medals and diplomas will be presented to the Nobel Prize laureates. There will be ceremonial presentations in Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and Italy during the period 6–8 December. The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureates have been invited to Oslo on 10 December. Also…

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Places to be illuminated this year as part of Nobel Week Lights Stockholm

1 November 2021

For the second straight year, the artistic light installations of Nobel Week Lights Stockholm − running from 4 to 12 December – will be part of the Nobel Week festivities. Today organisers are revealing what locations will be illuminated during the December darkness. One of this year’s innovations is that Västerbron – a long double-arched…

October 2021

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize laureates speak about our future world in a new podcast season

21 October 2021

During the autumn of 2021, Nobel Prize Outreach will be releasing a new season of the acclaimed podcast ‘Nobel Prize Conversations’. This season features six Nobel Prize laureates – one laureate from each prize category. The episodes will give in depth-perspectives from each laureate including their past, their work and how our common future can…

Press release from the Nobel Peace Center

New Exhibition: The Medal Chamber

14 October 2021

The Nobel Peace Prize medal is shown in all its glory in the Medal Chamber at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. The medal on display is the one awarded to the first Norwegian peace prize laureate, Christian Lous Lange, in 1921. The Peace Prize Medal was designed by Gustav Vigeland in 1901, and is…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Two charismatic musical artists to share Nobel Prize Concert stage

13 October 2021

It is now clear that the soloist at this year’s Nobel Prize concert, acclaimed Argentina-born cellist Sol Gabetta, will share the stage with American conductor Ryan Bancroft. Tickets to the 8 December concert in Stockholm are being on 20 October. Sol Gabetta performs regularly with world-leading orchestras and conductors and has received several awards. Her…

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Celebrating this year’s newly announced Nobel Prize laureates in Stockholm

3 October 2021

During the period 4 – 11 October, this year’s Nobel Prize laureates will be announced. The Nobel Prize Museum is highlighting this through its Nobel Calling Stockholm programme – a week filled with activities at the museum as well as at theatres, higher education institutions and libraries. There will also be an open stage at…