Stockholm
Nobel Week Lights is a festival lighting up Stockholm during the darkest time of the year – a free cultural experience for everyone.
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million Swedish kronor – the Nobel Prize amount set for 2024
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guests can be seated at the Nobel Prize banquet
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December – the Nobel Day since 1901
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What’s on – Nobel Week
Stockholm
Swedish soprano Malin Byström and the conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Petr Popelka, will perform at this year’s Nobel Prize Concert at Konserthuset Stockholm.
Oslo
At this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Forum, three former Nobel Peace Prize laureates and leading experts on global nuclear politics will discuss strategies to mitigate the risk of nuclear war and advance toward nuclear disarmament.
Questions and answers
Do you want to know more about the Nobel Prize and the Nobel Prize laureates? Find answers to the most commonly asked questions in the FAQ.
Benjamin List receiving his Nobel Prize medal.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Bernhard Ludewig
All guests assembled for the Nobel Prize banquet inside the glimmering Blue Hall.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Anna Svanberg.
What do the laureates receive?
Each diploma is a unique work of art, created by leading Swedish and Norwegian artists and calligraphers. Read more about the diplomas here.
Artist: Lars Eje Larsson Calligrapher: Marianne Pettersson Soold Book binder: Leonard Gustafssons Bokbinderi AB Photo reproduction: Dan Lepp © The Nobel Foundation 2023
The front of the gold Nobel Prize medals depict Alfred Nobel. The image on the reverse varies according to the institution awarding the prize. Read more about the medals.
Drew Weissman showing his Nobel Prize medal during a visit to the Nobel Foundation on 11 December 2023.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Dan Lepp.
The current amount is at SEK 11 million per full Nobel Prize. A Nobel Prize can be awarded to up to three laureates who share the prize sum. Find out more about the prize amounts throughout history.
Laureates Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier at the Nobel Prize award ceremony, 10 December 2023.
© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Nanaka Adachi
Alfred Nobel – Established the Nobel Prize
Alfred Nobel signed his last will in Paris on 27 November 1895. He specified that the bulk of his fortune should be divided into five parts and to be used for prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace to “those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.”
Nobel Prizes 2024
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This year’s laureates used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools.
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Physiology or medicine
Tiny RNAs with profound physiological importance
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered microRNA, a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regulation.
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Literature
Han Kang
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
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The grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.
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Economic sciences
An explanation for why some countries are rich and others poor
This year’s laureates have provided new insights into why there are such vast differences in prosperity between nations.
Nobel Prize laureates 2024
Discover Nobel Prize Lessons
Discover more about the Nobel Prizes with the easy-to-use Nobel Prize Lessons. Watch the videos, look through the manual and slides, print the texts for students and start the class.
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Alfred Nobel
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Learn about conditioned reflexes in this interactive game.
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In memoriam
Physicist Leon N. Cooper passed away on 23 October 2024. He was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics “for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory”.
Endocrinologist Andrew V. Schally died on 17 October 2024. He was awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain”.
Tsung Dao Lee passed away on 4 August, age 97. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for his “penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles.”
J. Robin Warren passed away on 23 July 2024. He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease
