Over the years, the Nobel Prize’s organisational structure has developed and expanded, and today a variety of networks and institutions have been tasked with inspiring and spreading knowledge about the Nobel Prize through various public activities, exhibitions, meetings, events and digital publishing. Through these externally financed entities we disseminate information about the Nobel Prize and…

In his last will and testament, Alfred Nobel specifically designated the institutions responsible for the prizes he wished to be established: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry, Karolinska Institutet for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and…

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The Nobel Foundation, a private institution established in 1900, has ultimate responsibility for fulfilling the intentions in Alfred Nobel’s will. The main mission of the Nobel Foundation is to manage Alfred Nobel’s fortune in a manner that ensures a secure financial standing for the Nobel Prize over the long term and that the prize-awarding institutions are…

The message about the death of Kaci Kullmann Five was received with heartfelt grief by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. She was a member of the Nobel Committee from 2003, and was elected chair in 2015. It is difficult to fathom that the illness that returned and caused her to have to withdraw from last year’s…