Press release from the Nobel Foundation

2017 Nobel Prize announcements coming up: Live video, in-depth information and social media discussion

27 September 2017
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Photo: Patrik Lundin/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The 2017 Nobel Prize announcements will begin Monday 2 October. Time and dates for all announcements (local time in Sweden):

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE – Monday 2 October, 11:30 a.m. at the earliest

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS – Tuesday 3 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY – Wednesday 4 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE – Friday 6 October, 11:00 a.m.

THE SVERIGES RIKSBANK PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES IN MEMORY OF ALFRED NOBEL – Monday 9 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE – The date will be set later.

The official Nobel Prize digital channels will provide the following media on the announcements:

Live video and in-depth information

On the official website Nobelprize.org and social media channels you can follow all the action as the news breaks about the new Laureates. Press releases are published on Nobelprize.org at the time of the announcement for each Prize. Live video of the announcements is streamed on Nobelprize.org and on the official Nobel Prize channels on Youtube and Facebook.

To webcast the Nobel Prize announcements on your website, blog or social networks, you can use the easy-to-add code and Youtube embed. Grab it at www.nobelprize.org

Directly after the announcements, Nobelprize.org provides exclusive interviews with members of the Nobel Committees as part of the live broadcast.

Join the social media discussion

Official hashtag for the Nobel Prize announcements: #NobelPrize

Everybody is welcome to join the conversation as news about the awarded Nobel Laureates is posted continuously. According to tradition, short congratulatory interviews with the new Nobel Laureates are conducted after the announcements. 

www.facebook.com/nobelprize

www.twitter.com/nobelprize

www.instagram.com/nobelprize_org

For archive footage from the announcements, please contact: broadcast@nobelmedia.se

New addition: Nobel Teacher Summit in Stockholm

In connection to the Nobel Prize announcements, the first Nobel Teacher Summit will be held in Stockholm on 6 October. More than 350 teachers from 15 countries will attend this all-day event, where they will be inspired by Nobel Laureates and other experts. There will be discussions about the role of science in schools and teacher development. The Nobel Teacher Summit is part of the Nobel Center’s efforts to create highly topical activities and school programmes that will reach pupils and teachers around the world.

Bernard Feringa, Chemistry Laureate 2016 will speak at the Nobel Teacher Summit along with Shirin Ebadi, Peace Prize Laureate 2003, and Herta Müller, Literature Laureate 2009.

Read more at: www.nobelcenter.se/nobel-teacher-summit

Nobel Foundation

The Nobel Foundation is a private foundation established in 1900 on the basis of the will of Alfred Nobel and the founding statutes promulgated in connection with the will. Its primary purpose is to ensure that the intentions of the will of Alfred Nobel are fulfilled. The Foundation is responsible for ensuring that the assets made available for awarding the Nobel Prize are managed in such a way as to safeguard the economic base of the Prize in a long-term perspective and guarantee the independence of the prize-awarding institutions in their work of selecting Laureates. The Nobel Foundation is also entrusted with managing and carefully developing the trademarks and intangible assets that have been built up during the more than century-long history of the Nobel Prize.

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