Press release from the Nobel Foundation

The 2020 Nobel Prize announcements

16 March 2020 View in Swedish

This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 5-12 October. All the announcements will be broadcast live on the official website of the Nobel Prize, www.nobelprize.org.

The prize-awarding institutions have decided to announce their 2020 prize decisions as follows:

PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE – Monday, 5 October, 11:30 CEST at the earliest

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Wallenbergsalen, Nobel Forum, Nobels väg 1, Solna

http://www.nobelprizemedicine.org

nobelforum@nobelprizemedicine.org

PHYSICS – Tuesday, 6 October, 11:45 CEST at the earliest

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, KVA), Sessionssalen, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm

www.kva.se/pressroom

eva.nevelius@kva.se

CHEMISTRY – Wednesday, 7 October, 11:45 CEST at the earliest

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sessionssalen, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm

www.kva.se/pressroom

eva.nevelius@kva.se

LITERATURE – Thursday, 8 October, 13:00 CEST at the earliest

The Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien), Börssalen, Källargränd 4, Stockholm

http://www.svenskaakademien.se/en

louise.hedberg@svenskaakademin.se

PEACE – Friday, 9 October, 11:00 CEST

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, The Norwegian Nobel Institute (Norska Nobelinstitutet), Store Sal, Henrik Ibsens gate 51, Oslo

postmaster@nobel.no

THE SVERIGES RIKSBANK PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES IN MEMORY OF ALFRED NOBEL – Monday, 12 October, 11:45 CEST at the earliest

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sessionssalen, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm

www.kva.se/pressroom

eva.nevelius@kva.se

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

Nobel Foundation

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