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…
Twenty-five years ago, received the Nobel Prize in Literature. On Thursday, the Nobel Prize Museum will receive three artefacts that provide a picture of the poet’s work process and how she dealt with the attention that the Nobel Prize brought. A pair of glasses, a pen and a thank you card will now be added…
In mid-November five Nobel Prize laureates will be joined by 80 students from around 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, exploring how science and scientists can most effectively make a positive impact on society. The digital conversations will be woven into a programme streamed for a global audience on 16 November. The event…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Anita Krishnamurthi, former Head of Education and Learning at the Wellcome Trust, is joining the board of Nobel Prize Outreach. She has a long career advocating for equitable access to education and engagement with science on a global level. “Anita Krishnamurthi will bring new perspectives and valuable knowledge to our work of reaching out to…
Between 4 and 11 October the prize awarding institutions will announce this year’s Nobel Prize laureates. All their press conferences will be shown on the official Nobel Prize digital channels. It is now also clear that this year’s Nobel festivities in December − when the laureates are honoured in Stockholm and Oslo − will be…
The Nobel Prize Museum on Stortorget, the main square in Stockholm’s Old Town (Gamla stan), is reopening to visitors on 21 August. They can view the first major exhibition about the Nobel Prize banquet – focusing on the food, the clothing, the decorations and the laureates’ speeches. This new exhibition takes you behind the scenes. …
In December 2020 the acclaimed Nobel Week Lights festival took place in Stockholm. Sixteen light installations – many of them directly inspired by earlier Nobel Prizes – illuminated locations and buildings around the Swedish capital. It has now been decided that the festival will return this year. On Wednesday, June 23, the City of Stockholm…
Inge Thulin, a leading international business executive, is joining the board of Nobel Prize Outreach. The company, which is part of the growing public activities connected to the Nobel Prize, works to spread knowledge about Nobel Prize-awarded achievements and to stimulate interest in science, literature and peace efforts throughout the world. Vidar Helgesen, executive director…
Acclaimed Argentina-born cellist Sol Gabetta will be performing at this year’s Nobel Prize Concert on 8 December. Sol Gabetta. Photo: Julia Wesley Sol Gabetta performs regularly with world-leading orchestras and conductors and has received several awards. Her charismatic stage personality and captivating interpretations have paved the way for a career that has taken her to…
Organizers of the recent Nobel Prize Summit shared a statement titled “Our Planet, Our Future: An Urgent Call for Action” — issued by the summit’s steering committee and co-signed by 126 Nobel laureates — with leaders of the G-7 countries and the U.N. secretary general, as well as other groups. In a letter, the Nobel…
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…