December 6 – 12 will mark the 2022 Nobel Week. The Nobel Foundation has invited this year’s Nobel Prize laureates together with laureates from 2020 and 2021. No fewer than 27 laureates will attend this year’s festivities in Stockholm. A number of other previous laureates will also participate in the Nobel Week Dialogue science conference on 9 December.
“After two years of cancelled festivities, we are finally able to welcome the Nobel Prize laureates to Stockholm. This will give us a fantastic opportunity to celebrate science, literature and peace efforts during an entire week. Given the challenges the world faces, it feels especially important to highlight Alfred Nobel’s idea of international community, respect for knowledge and a belief in humankind’s ability to bring about changes,” says Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation.
It will be a busy period for the laureates who visit Stockholm during the Nobel Week. The prize-awarding institutions will organise press conferences and Nobel lectures featuring the 2022 laureates. In keeping with tradition, all 27 laureates will be invited to the Nobel Prize Museum to sign a chair and hand over an artefact to the museum’s collection. During the week, there will also be time for them to visit schools and experience the Nobel Week Lights light festival, among other things. On 10 December, it will be time for this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet.
Laureates coming to Stockholm for the Nobel Week
Nobel Prize laureates 2022
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022
Professor Alain Aspect
Dr John F. Clauser
Professor Dr Anton Zeilinger
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022
Professor Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Professor Morten Meldal
Professor K. Barry Sharpless
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022
Dr Svante Pääbo
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022
Author Annie Ernaux
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022
Dr Ben S. Bernank
Professor Douglas W. Diamond
Professor Philip H. Dybvig
Nobel Prize laureates 2021
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021
Professor Giorgio Parisi
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
Professor Dr Benjamin List
Professor Sir David W.C. MacMillan
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021
Professor David Julius
Professor Dr Ardem Patapoutian
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Author Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021
Professor Joshua D. Angrist
Professor Guido W. Imbens
Nobel Prize laureates 2020
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
Professor Reinhard Genzel
Professor Andrea Ghez
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
Professor Dr Emmanuelle Charpentier
Professor Jennifer A. Doudna
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020
Professor Harvey J. Alter
Professor Charles M. Rice
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
Author Louise Glück
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020
Professor Paul R. Milgrom
Many laureates in Stockholm
The number of laureates participating in the Nobel Week varies from year to year. In 1950, 1991 and 2001, when anniversaries (50, 90 and 100 years) were celebrated, all laureates who had ever received the prize were invited. Excluding these special anniversary years, 2022 will see the highest ever number of Nobel Prize laureates participating in Nobel Week. This year we also have 26 laureates who are attending the Nobel Prize banquet for the first time, which has not happened before.
The Nobel Week Dialogue on 9 December this year will explore life in the future. Literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah and chemistry laureate Benjamin List (both 2021) will participate together with Andrea Ghez, who is one of the 2020 physics laureates. The panellists and speakers on hand at the Nobel Week Dialogue in Stockholm will also include 2018 chemistry laureate Frances Arnold, 1997 physics laureate Steven Chu, 2012 physics laureate Serge Haroche, 2001 medicine laureate Paul Nurse and 2019 physics laureate Didier Queloz. Among the other panellists during the day-long conference will be Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.
Banquet chef and pastry chef will be presented
On 5 December, the chef and pastry chef of the Nobel Prize banquet will be presented. Media representatives who wish to attend this event at the Stockholm City Hall can apply for accreditation at: press@nobelprize.org. On the same day, a preliminary timetable for the award ceremony and banquet will be published.
Follow what happens during the Nobel Week
There are several ways to follow what will be happening during the Nobel Week. Some of the programme events will be open to the general public and the media. On the official Nobel Prize website, nobelprize.org, you can also experience many of the events by watching and listening to various broadcasts. It will also be possible to follow the laureates’ week via the Nobel Prize’s social media channels.
To request interviews with laureates, please contact:
press@nobelprize.org
Images from the Nobel Week will be published after some delay at:
https://www.nobelprize.org/press-images-for-media/
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