Press release from the Nobel Foundation

The 2018 Nobel Prize Announcements

25 May 2018 View in Swedish

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place 1-8 October. The prize sum for 2018 has been set to 9 million SEK per prize category. All the announcements will be broadcast live on the official website of the Nobel Prize, www.nobelprize.org

The Swedish Academy has decided to postpone the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, with the intention of awarding it in 2019: http://www.svenskaakademien.se/en/press/the-swedish-academy-postpones-the-2018-nobel-prize-in-literature

The prize-awarding institutions have decided to announce their 2018 prize decisions as follows:

PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE – Monday, October 1, 11.30 a.m. at the earliest
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Wallenbergsalen, Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1, Solna
http://www.nobelprizemedicine.org
nobelforum@nobel.se

PHYSICS – Tuesday, October 2, 11.45 a.m. at the earliest
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, KVA), Sessionssalen, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm
www.kva.se/pressroom
jessica.balksjo@kva.se

CHEMISTRY – Wednesday, October 3, 11.45 a.m. at the earliest
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sessionssalen, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm
www.kva.se/pressroom
jessica.balksjo@kva.se

PEACE – Friday, October 5, 11.00 a.m. 
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, The Norwegian Nobel Institute (Norska Nobelinstitutet), Store Sal, Henrik Ibsens gate 51, Oslo
https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org 
press@nobel.no   

THE SVERIGES RIKSBANK PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES IN MEMORY OF ALFRED NOBEL – Monday, October 8, 11.45 a.m. at the earliest
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sessionssalen, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm
www.kva.se/pressroom
jessica.balksjo@kva.se

Media wishing to attend the announcements should apply to the respective prize-awarding institution in the early fall.

Public activities to celebrate and understand the 2018 Prizes

In connection with this year’s Nobel Prize announcements in early October, the Nobel Center is organising a number of public events in Stockholm to celebrate and understand the 2018 Prizes. These events will include an international Teacher Summit on the theme of Teach love & understanding. During this full-day conference, teachers from all over the world will gain new strength in their important mission of promoting democracy, non-violence and long-term sustainable development and helping their pupils develop into tolerant and engaged citizens.

During the same period, the Nobel Center will also organise celebrations and lectures at a number of museums, libraries and theatres, where the discoveries and contributions of the year’s new Laureates will be explained to curious Stockholm residents, school classes and tourists.

Participants in the activities arranged by the Nobel Center will include Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Peace Prize Laureate; Martin Chalfie, 2008 Chemistry Laureate; and Wole Soyinka, 1986 Laureate in Literature.

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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