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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023
2023-10-02 11:30 - 12:30 (Europe/Amsterdam)
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.”
The discoveries by the two Nobel Laureates were critical for developing effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 during the pandemic that began in early 2020. Through their groundbreaking findings, which have fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system, the laureates contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times.
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023
Discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
2023-10-03 11:45 - 12:30
The three Nobel Laureates in Physics 2023 are being recognised for their experiments, which have given humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023
2023-10-04 11:45 - 13:00
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
Independently of each other, Ekimov and Brus succeeded in creating quantum dots, and Bawendi revolutionised the chemical production. Quantum dots now illuminate computer monitors and television screens based on QLED technology. They also add nuance to the light of some LED lamps, and biochemists and doctors use them to map biological tissue.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023
2023-10-05 11:45 - 13:00
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
His immense oeuvre written in Norwegian Nynorsk and spanning a variety of genres consists of a wealth of plays, novels, poetry collections, essays, children’s books and translations. While he is today one of the most widely performed playwrights in the world, he has also become increasingly recognised for his prose.
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023

The Nobel Peace Prize 2023
2023-10-06 11:00 - 11:30
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize 2023 to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.
This year’s peace prize also recognises the hundreds of thousands of people who, in the preceding year, have demonstrated against Iran’s theocratic regime’s policies of discrimination and oppression targeting women. The motto adopted by the demonstrators – “Woman – Life – Freedom” – suitably expresses the dedication and work of Narges Mohammadi.
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The Nobel Peace Prize 2023

Nobel Week 2023
2023-12-06 - 2023-12-12
Nobel Week 2023 vindt plaats op 6–12 december in Stockholm en Oslo.
Sinds 1901 vindt de ceremoniële uitreiking van de ‪Nobelprijzen jaarlijks plaats op 10 december, de sterfdag van Alfred Nobel. De Nobelprijs bestaat uit een medaille, een persoonlijk certificaat en een geldbedrag. Als meer dan één persoon een Nobelprijs wint zal het prijzengeld door het evenredige aantal winnaars gedeeld worden. Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896) was een Zweeds chemicus, internationaal industrieel, dichter en filantroop. Het bekendst is zijn uitvinding van het ‪dynamiet in 1866. Nobel schreef in zijn testament dat van de rente van zijn kapitaal, circa 32 miljoen Zweedse kronen, elk jaar op zijn sterfdag vijf Nobelprijzen moesten worden uitgereikt. Die prijzen moesten gaan naar personen die zich verdienstelijk hebben gemaakt voor de mensheid, voor bijzondere vondsten, ontdekkingen, onderzoeken, verrichtingen en aangelegenheden op diverse wetenschappelijke gebieden. In 1968 besloot de Zweedse Rijksbank een prijs toe te voegen aan de vijf categorieën ter nagedachtenis aan Alfred Nobel. Dat werd de Prijs van de Zweedse Rijksbank voor Economische Wetenschappen.
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023
The Nobel Peace Prize 2023

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024
2024-10-07 11:45 - 12:30
The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.”
In 1993, they published unexpected findings describing a new level of gene regulation, which turned out to be highly significant and conserved throughout evolution. Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered microRNA, a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regulation. Their groundbreaking discovery in the small worm C. elegans revealed a completely new principle of gene regulation. This turned out to be essential for multicellular organisms, including humans. MicroRNAs are proving to be fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function.
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The Nobel Prize
Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024
Scientific background: For the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
2024-10-08 11:45 - 12:15
Machine learning has long been important for research, including the sorting and analysis of vast amounts of data.
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning. Machine learning based on artificial neural networks is currently revolutionising science, engineering and daily life.
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The Nobel Prize
Press release
Popular information: They used physics to find patterns in information
Scientific background: “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
2024-10-09 11:45 - 12:15
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools.
David Baker has succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures. These discoveries hold enormous potential.
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The Nobel Prize
Press release
Popular information: They have revealed proteins’ secrets through computing and artificial intelligence
Scientific background: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
2024-10-10 13:00 - 13:30
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
In her oeuvre, Han Kang confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life. She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and the dead, and in her poetic and experimental style has become an innovator in contemporary prose.

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The Nobel Prize

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Biobibliography

The Nobel Peace Prize 2024
2024-10-11 11:00 - 11:30
The grassroots movement Nihon Hidankyo of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.
The extraordinary efforts of Nihon Hidankyo and other representatives of the Hibakusha have contributed greatly to the establishment of a nuclear taboo. The fates of those who survived the infernos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were long concealed and neglected. In 1956, local Hibakusha associations along with victims of nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific formed the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations. This name was shortened in Japanese to Nihon Hidankyo. It would become the largest and most influential Hibakusha organisation in Japan.
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The Nobel Prize
A powerful international norm stigmatising nuclear weapons
Five documentaries inspired by the Nobel Peace Prize
Nihon Hidankyo

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024
2024-10-14 11:45 - 12:15
The 2024 laureates have provided new insights into why there are such vast differences in prosperity between nations.
One important explanation is persistent differences in societal institutions. By examining the various political and economic systems introduced by European colonisers, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson have been able to demonstrate a relationship between institutions and prosperity. They have also developed theoretical tools that can explain why differences in institutions persist and how institutions can change.
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Press release

Popular information: They provided an explanation for why some countries are rich and others poor
Scientific background to the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024

Nobel Week 2024
2024-12-06 - 2024-12-12
Nobel Week 2024 vindt plaats op 6–12 december in Stockholm en Oslo.
Sinds 1901 vindt de ceremoniële uitreiking van de ‪Nobelprijzen jaarlijks plaats op 10 december, de sterfdag van Alfred Nobel. De Nobelprijs bestaat uit een medaille, een persoonlijk certificaat en een geldbedrag. Als meer dan één persoon een Nobelprijs wint zal het prijzengeld door het evenredige aantal winnaars gedeeld worden. Alfred Bernhard Nobel (1833-1896) was een Zweeds chemicus, internationaal industrieel, dichter en filantroop. Het bekendst is zijn uitvinding van het ‪dynamiet in 1866. Nobel schreef in zijn testament dat van de rente van zijn kapitaal, circa 32 miljoen Zweedse kronen, elk jaar op zijn sterfdag vijf Nobelprijzen moesten worden uitgereikt. Die prijzen moesten gaan naar personen die zich verdienstelijk hebben gemaakt voor de mensheid, voor bijzondere vondsten, ontdekkingen, onderzoeken, verrichtingen en aangelegenheden op diverse wetenschappelijke gebieden. In 1968 besloot de Zweedse Rijksbank een prijs toe te voegen aan de vijf categorieën ter nagedachtenis aan Alfred Nobel. Dat werd de Prijs van de Zweedse Rijksbank voor Economische Wetenschappen.
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Nobel Week 2024

Nobelprijs voor de Vrede voor Francesca Albanese en artsen in Gaza
2025-07-10 - 2025-08-09
De nominaties om Francesca Albanese een Nobelprijs voor de Vrede te geven, beginnen binnen te stromen.
Intussen legt zij onverminderd de focus op de mensen die het grootste risico lopen: iedereen die in Gaza wordt belaagd. Ze nam het op voor Gaza — en nu straft de Trump-regering Francesca Albanese, speciaal VN-rapporteur voor de Westelijke Jordaanoever en Gaza, met sancties. Wij zijn met miljoenen mensen. Samen kunnen we dit moment gebruiken om te laten zien dat we aan haar kant staan en willen dat de meest prestigieuze prijs ter wereld naar haar en de artsen die actief zijn in Gaza gaat. Sluit je nu aan en deel dit met iedereen die je kent. Francesca Albanese is een van de krachtigste stemmen die oproept tot actie tegen mensenrechtenschendingen. Ze aarzelt niet om politici en bedrijven die profiteren van de genocide ter verantwoording te roepen, zelfs als ze daardoor in het vizier van Israël en de VS komt. En de artsen — zowel de artsen uit Gaza als degenen die uit het buitenland komen om te helpen — zijn de morele stemmen die steeds weer alarm slaan en politici proberen te overtuigen om actie te ondernemen. Zij heeft haar onafhankelijke platform gebruikt om op te staan voor anderen; laten wij nu opstaan voor haar. Door een symbolische daad te stellen en te laten zien hoeveel mensen ter wereld haar en de artsen de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede zouden gunnen, kunnen we een tegengewicht bieden voor de bedreigingen en intimidatie. Sluit je aan om deze oproep oorverdovend te maken, dan zullen wij die overhandigen aan Albanese en de artsen, en verspreiden in de media: Als moedige mensen zoals Francesca Albanese grote risico’s nemen door te zeggen waar het op staat, is het aan ons om te laten zien dat ze niet alleen staat — maar dat honderdduizenden mensen wereldwijd aan haar kant staan en vinden dat ze voor haar belangrijke werk erkenning verdient, niet sancties. Teken nu en deel dit met je familie en vrienden. Avaaz zal de oproep rechtstreeks overhandigen.
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Nobelprijs voor de Vrede voor Francesca Albanese en artsen in Gaza
SOMO stands in solidarity with UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory following the US sanctions imposed on her in an attempt to silence and obstruct her work

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
2025-10-06 11:45 - 12:45
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
The body’s powerful immune system must be regulated, or it may attack our own organs. Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
2025-10-07 11:45 - 12:30
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
A major question in physics is the maximum size of a system that can demonstrate quantum mechanical effects. This year’s Nobel Prize laureates conducted experiments with an electrical circuit in which they demonstrated both quantum mechanical tunnelling and quantised energy levels in a system big enough to be held in the hand.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
Things Going Thru Walls? Let’s Discuss the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
2025-10-08 11:45 - 12:15
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks.”
The Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry 2025 have created molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow. These constructions, metal-organic frameworks, can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions.
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The Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
2025-10-09 13:00 - 14:00
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.
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The Nobel Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025
2025-10-10 11:00 - 11:45
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025

Nobel Week 2025
2025-12-06 - 2025-12-12
The Wave by Vertigo at Nobel Week Lights 2024
Nobel Week 2025 takes place on 6–12 December in Stockholm and Oslo.
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Nobel Week 2025
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025

Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2025 | Ballots not Bullets: The Democratic Pathway to Peace (TV webcast)
2025-12-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Oslo, Oslo, Norway
The pathway to peace is not an easy one, it is secured through freedoms that are granted and protected by a government that is fairly and freely elected by the people.
The 2025 laureate, María Corina Machado, has worked tirelessly for free and fair democratic elections – the very foundations of a peaceful society – in Venezuela.  Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence. With Venezuela as an example, the Forum will focus on democracy as the foundation for peace, and how the transition from authoritarianism to democracy can pave the way for peace in different parts of the world.
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Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2025
