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June 2021

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Inge Thulin new board member at Nobel Prize Outreach

16 June 2021

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…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Cellist Sol Gabetta will be the soloist at the Nobel Prize Concert

14 June 2021

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…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

‘Our Planet, Our Future’ Statement Signed by 126 Nobel Laureates Delivered to World Leaders Ahead of G-7 Summit

3 June 2021

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…

May 2021

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Munchmuseet and Medicine Prize committee provide new Nobel Prize Museum board members

6 May 2021

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…

April 2021

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

The Nobel Foundation’s 2020 asset management and earnings

23 April 2021

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…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Vidar Helgesen participates in webinar on the ocean

7 April 2021

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. …

March 2021

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize laureates to inspire students in Brazil

30 March 2021

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…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

The 2021 Nobel Prize announcements

24 March 2021

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 –…

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Alfred Nobel’s old bottles

16 March 2021

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…

February 2021

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Conversation about the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and scientific communication is released

16 February 2021

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.…

December 2020

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

University of Pretoria to host first Nobel Prize Dialogue to take place in Africa

11 December 2020

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…

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

Nobel Prize medals and diplomas delivered

9 December 2020

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…

November 2020

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

The Nobel Prize will reach more people as Laureates’ achievements are celebrated during an unusual 2020 Nobel Week

26 November 2020

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…

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

Stockholm launches a new celebration of lights during Nobel Week

17 November 2020

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.…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Laureates to discuss learning in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic

10 November 2020

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…

Press release from Nobel Prize Outreach

The life of a scientist – online event with Nobel Laureate Stefan Hell

10 November 2020

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…

October 2020

Press release from the Nobel Prize Museum

This year’s Nobel Laureates are being celebrated with an outdoor cinema on Sergels torg

1 October 2020

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…

September 2020

Press release from the Nobel Foundation

The amount of the Nobel Prize is being increased by 1 million SEK

23 September 2020

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…