Kip Thorne is overcome with emotion while looking at the image and signature of fellow laureate Albert Einstein.

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Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize Outreach’s mission is to inspire change guided by Alfred Nobel’s vision to work “for the greatest benefit to humankind”. We develop ambitious national and international outreach activities to disseminate knowledge on Nobel Prize-awarded achievements and to engage and inspire people to tackle the greatest challenges of our times, through conferences, educational programmes, student lectures, digital storytelling, podcasts and documentaries.

We have a strong global digital presence with a mission to inform, inspire and engage an ever-growing audience. The website nobelprize.org, which was launched in 1994, is a vast source for official information on all the prizes and Nobel Prize laureates, the prize-awarding institutions and the prize nomination process, as well as outreach activities in the form of event highlights and educational material. We are also present on the social media channels Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Our events bring Nobel Prize laureates and world-leading experts to locations across the globe to discuss and engage audiences with the challenges of our future. We aim to encourage discussion at the highest level online as well as on-site. By bridging science, peace, literature and society, we provide an opportunity to stimulate thinking, excite imagination and inspire greatness.

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The Nobel Foundation has ultimate responsibility for fulfilling the intentions in Alfred Nobel’s will.

Flower decorations at the 2016 Nobel Prize award ceremony

Flower decorations by Florist Helén Magnusson at the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2016.

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Alfred Nobel specifically designated the institutions responsible for choosing laureates for each prize.

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The 2017 Nobel Prize award ceremony

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