The Board of Directors of the Nobel Prize Museum has gained two new members. Stein Olav Henrichsen is Director of Munchmuseet (MUNCH) in Oslo, Norway. Also newly elected to the board is Professor Thomas Perlmann, Secretary General of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. It is about…
As millions around the world try to cope with the disruptions caused by the pandemic, the questions and challenges facing present and future generations of workers are thrown into starker relief. What working life will mean in the future will be discussed together with laureates and experts on 18 and 19 May 2021 at an…
The market value of the Nobel Foundation’s total invested capital amounted to SEK 5,176 m at the end of 2020. Excluding the value of the Foundation’s directly owned properties, investment capital amounted to SEK 4,882 m at the end of the year. During 2020, return on investment capital was +8.5%. The Nobel Foundation is ultimately…
On 12 April a live streamed webinar on the rapidly developing scientific and policy attention associated to the ocean will take place. This webinar is part of the Nobel Prize Summit ‘Our Planet, Our Future’, a global online event taking place 26-28 April. The CEO of the Nobel Foundation will take part in the event. …
On 8 April, Nobel Prize laureates and will take part in a digital event talking about their work as scientists, their lives and the value of science. The event is dedicated to inspiring students from all over Brazil to devote their career to science. The discussions during the session will focus on the value of…
This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 4-11 October. All the announcements will be broadcast live on the official digital channels of the Nobel Prize and in-depth material about the prizes will be published at www.nobelprize.org. The prize-awarding institutions have decided to announce their 2021 prize decisions as follows: PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE –…
The first Nobel Prize Summit “Our Planet, Our Future” will bring together Nobel Prize laureates and other esteemed leaders in the sciences, policy, business, the youth movement, and the arts to explore actions that can be achieved this decade to put the world on a path to a more sustainable, more prosperous future for all.…
There is a project of some cultural-historical value that has gone largely undetected until now. Together with Uppsala University and the Swedish National Heritage Board, the Nobel Prize Museum has been analysing the contents of forty-three old ceramic bottles that were used in Alfred Nobel’s laboratories. When Alfred Nobel died in 1896, he had laboratories…
What makes us listen to science? is a recorded conversation about how scientists can find new ways to convey important research findings and generate interest in their announcements. It features environmental researcher Johan Rockström, Nobel Laureate Sir Richard J. Roberts and Anna Sjöström Douagi, Vice President for Science and Programmes at Stockholm’s Nobel Prize Museum.…
The Nobel Prize Dialogue has been inspired by the Nobel Week Dialogue, which has been taking place in Sweden since 2012 on the day preceding the Nobel Prize award ceremony. Laura Sprechmann, Nobel Prize Outreach CEO, on Nobel Week Dialogue in Stockholm held on 9 Decemeber 2020. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Clément Morin Nobel…
The Nobel Prize medal and diploma were presented to physics laureate Andrea Ghez in Los Angeles late in the afternoon of 9 December. This means that all laureates have received their medal and diploma apart from the World Food Programme, which will receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Rome on the Nobel Day. “This year…
During this unique year in the history of the Nobel Prize, all the Laureates will receive their medals and diplomas in their home countries. On the Nobel Day, 10 December, these ceremonial presentations will be woven together with speeches and presentations about the 2020 prizes from Oslo and Stockholm. During the week, the Laureates will…
When December comes, we all need a little light in the darkness – and this year perhaps more than ever before. To bring some more light and hope to our lives, about fifteen places around Stockholm will be lit up for Nobel Week Lights Stockholm on 5-13 December as part of the 2020 Nobel Week.…
Registration opens this week for the annual Nobel Week Dialogue event, to be held online on 9 December. Our long-established education systems have been turned upside down by the Covid-19 pandemic, making this a crucial time to discuss education in our new world. Nobel Laureates and other experts will address the challenges to learning posed…
On 17 November Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell will take part in a digital Q&A on the topic of being a scientist. The session is organised to inspire students and young researchers to devote their career to science. The conversation is arranged by Nobel Prize Outreach and Korean Academy of Science and Technology, KAST. In 2014…
In the coming days, this year’s Nobel Laureates will be announced for their achievements in science, literature, peace and economics. The Nobel Prize Museum is celebrating the announcements with the programme Nobel Calling Stockholm and an outdoor cinema that has just opened on Sergels torg in downtown Stockholm. The cinema will be showing five short…
The Nobel Foundation’s Board of Directors has decided that the 2020 Nobel Prize will amount to 10 million SEK per prize category. That means an increase of 1 million SEK per prize category compared to prior years. The work done in recent years to strengthen the Nobel Foundation’s financial standing has made it possible to…
The first week of October is coming closer, when this year’s Nobel Prizes, and the achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, will be announced. On 5-12 October, the prize awarding institutions will make their announcements and the press conferences can be followed via the Nobel Prize’s official digital channels. The ongoing global…
As a build-up to this year’s Nobel Prizes – which will be announced 5-12 October – new episodes of the podcast series Nobel Prize Conversations are being launched. In these episodes, the listener will meet two Economic Sciences laureates: Daniel Kahneman and Esther Duflo. In the podcast series ‘Nobel Prize Conversations’, the listener gets the…
The global pandemic and the COVID-19 situation are having a very broad impact on society. Events that bring together many participants are being postponed or reconfigured. This situation will also affect the 2020 Nobel Week, which will adopt new formats to celebrate and pay tribute to this year’s Laureates. Each December all the Laureates, their…