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Skip to contentClose the search formA button that allows you to close the search form if neededClose the search formA button that allows you to close the search form if neededClose Mobile Menu The Nobel Prize The Nobel Prize Logo Toggle Mobile MenuNobel Prizes & LaureatesAll Nobel PrizesPhysics PrizeChemistry PrizeMedicine PrizeLiterature PrizePeace PrizePrize in Economic SciencesQuick factsNominationPhysics PrizeChemistry PrizeMedicine PrizeLiterature PrizePeace PrizePrize in Economic SciencesNomination ArchiveAlfred NobelAlfred Nobel’s lifeAlfred Nobel’s willNews & insightsPressIn-depthEventsPublic eventsNobel Prize ConcertNobel Week DialogueNobel Prize DialogueNobel Prize SummitNobel Prize Inspiration InitiativeNobel Prize award ceremoniesEducationalClose the search formA button that allows you to close the search form if neededClose the search formA button that allows you to close the search form if needed NewsNew Nobel Center takes the next step On Wednesday, 4 May, the Nobel Foundation announced that SEK 1.2 billion (more than USD 120 million) has been donated by the Erling-Persson Foundation and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to build the Nobel Center − a house for science, culture and dialogue to be located at Slussen in central Stockholm, Sweden.At the same time, the Nobel Foundation unveiled its plans for the Center’s public activities, which will inspire Stockholm residents, school children and tourists to participate in solving the challenges of the future and helping create a better world.Illustration of the view from inside the Nobel Center. Illustration: TMRW.incNobel Peace PrizeNobel Peace Prize 2021"For their courageous fight for freedom of expression"“Free, independent and fact-based journalism serves to protect against abuse of power, lies and war propaganda. The Norwegian Nobel Committee is convinced that freedom of expression and freedom of information help to ensure an informed public.”Read the announcement of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and Dmitry MuratovIll. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach. Nobel Peace Prize 2021"I live with the real threat of spending the rest of my life in jail"“Every day, I live with the real threat of spending the rest of my life in jail just because I’m a journalist. When I go home, I have no idea what the future holds, but it’s worth the risk.”Watch Maria Ressa deliver her powerful Nobel Prize lecture that she delivered on 10 December 2021.Artefacts helps telling the stories of the Nobel Prize laureatesSwipe left and right to see more photos1 (of 6)Abdulrazak Gurnah donates a dictionary to the Nobel Prize Museum, 28 April 2022.© Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Clément MorinSwipe left and right to see more photos2 (of 6)At the Nobel Prize Museum, Literature Laureate Olga Tokarczuk donated her personal diary from 2018.© Nobel Media. Photo: Clément MorinSwipe left and right to see more photos3 (of 6)Physics Laureate Didier Queloz gives a key to Nobel Prize Museum.© Nobel Media. Photo: Alexander MahmoudSwipe left and right to see more photos4 (of 6)Svetlana Alexievich presenting her gift to the Nobel Museum’s collection: one of her five tape recorders, during the 2015 Nobel Laureates’ ‘Get together’ at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2015.Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2015Photo: Alexander MahmoudSwipe left and right to see more photos5 (of 6)Jacques Dubochet prepares his gift to the Nobel Museum’s collection: the first set-up of the cooling experiment, at the 2017 Nobel Laureates’ Get together at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2017.© Nobel Media AB 2017, photo: Alexander MahmoudSwipe left and right to see more photos6 (of 6)A pair of glasses were donated by the Dalai Lama to the exhibition “Items for Your Consideration – Treasures from the Nobel Museum’s Collections”.© Nobel Media 2011. Photo: Lina GöranssonSee all photosThe Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm, Sweden, has a growing collection of donated artefacts related to the laureates. When a laureate visits the museum a new object is added. See a few of them here.Nobel Prize conversationsMeet chemistry laureate David MacMillan‘Nobel Prize Conversations’ is back with a new season featuring the 2021 laureates. Episode one of the new season features football fan and chemistry laureate David MacMillan. He speaks about the importance of storytelling and his strong belief that doing science should be fun. MacMillan shares his journey from a family where no one had gone to university to becoming a Nobel Prize laureate.David MacMillan in the lab, 2016. Photo by Princeton University, Office of Undergraduate Admission, Blue CadetRecently publishedThe Nobel Foundation annual report 2021 The Nobel Foundation annual review 2021 Nobelstiftelsen. Årsredovisning 2021Nobelstiftelsen. Verksamhetsberättelse 2021 Nobel Prize awarded discoveriesNobel Prize in Physics 1964 The theory that would lead to the laser“I woke up early in the morning and sat in the park. It was a beautiful day and the flowers were blooming.”One April day in 1951 Charles Townes sat on a park bench and came up with the theory that would lead to the laser. Watch Townes describe his moment of discovery in this interview.Portrait of Charles H. Townes. Photo taken in 2013. Photo: Elena Zhukova/UC Berkeley Kindly provided by UC Berkeley Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 Discovered a novel therapy against malariaNobel Prize laureate Tu Youyou turned to Chinese medical texts to find a traditional cure for malaria, ultimately extracting a compound – artemisinin – that has saved millions of lives. Read her storyTu Youyou after receiving her Nobel Prize at the Stockholm Concert Hall, 10 December 2015. © Nobel Media AB 2015, Photo: Pi FriskNews2022 Nobel Prize ConcertSoprano Diana Damrau soloist at the Nobel Prize ConcertBringing extra star power to this year’s Nobel Prize Concert on 8 December will be German soprano Diana Damrau. Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck will lead the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the concert.Soprano Diana Damrau Photo: Jürgen FrankNobel Prize laureates share their storiesNobel Prize in Physics 2019Michel Mayor: "Climbing provides me with immeasurable pleasure"“As a teenager, I began doing one of my most exciting sports: climbing. With Aigle so close to mountains, living there allowed me to regularly practice these sports. Climbing provides me with immeasurable pleasure but… at one stage I was very happy to be rescued from a deep crevasse without too much damage!”Portrait of Michel Mayor. Photo: University of GenevaNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009Elizabeth Blackburn: "Biology seemed the most interesting of sciences"“Biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child. I was captivated by both the visual impact of science through science books written for young people, and an idea of the romance and nobility of the scientific quest. This latter was especially engendered by the biography of Marie Curie”Elizabeth Blackburn Photo: Micheline PelletierNobel Prize in Physics 2021 Giorgio Parisi: "Doing science is like playing puzzles"“I think that doing science is like playing puzzles or reading a detective story and trying to understand who is guilty before the author tells you. I think that most people like to play with puzzles but as a scientist I think this is on a different scale because the type of puzzles that we interested in are on a much bigger scale.”Giorgio Parisi teaching Courtesy Giorgio Parisi2022 Nobel Prizes2022 Nobel Prize announcementsThis year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place 3–10 October.See the full scheduleNobel Prize nominations2022 Nobel Peace Prize nominationsThe Norwegian Nobel Committee received 343 candidates for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. 92 of these are organisations. Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony 2021 in the Oslo City Hall in Norway. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Geir Anders Rybakken Ørslien.Are the nominations made public?Did you know that there is no public list of the current year’s nominees for the peace prize? The complete list of nominees of any year’s prizes is not disclosed for 50 years. The same goes for all the prize categories. Learn more about the nomination process in a Q&A with Olav Njølstad, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. The nomination process for Nobel Peace Prize laureates. © Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas ElmehedPlay a game!Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930 The Blood Typing GameHow much do you know about blood types? Did you know that human blood groups were discovered by Nobel Prize laureate Karl Landsteiner in 1901?Learn more about the way to find out about the human blood groups, blood typing and the importance of safe blood transfusions. See if you can save the lives of the patients in the game!Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1904Pavlov's DogIs it possible to train a dog to drool on command? Learn about conditioned reflexes in this interactive game!With this animated game, teachers are able to illustrate classical conditioning in the classroom. The object of the game is to train Pavlov’s dog to respond to a signal that it will associate with being fed.In 1904, Ivan Pavlov was awarded with Nobel Prize for his pioneering studies of how the digestive system works.Play a game!Meet Nobel Peace Prize laureates in MinecraftDiscover the stories of four peace laureates – Malala Yousafzai, Wangari Maathai, Dalai Lama and Fridtjof Nansen – in the new Minecraft universe ‘Active Citizen’.The game is available in 29 languages and has been created in partnership with Nobel Peace Center, Minecraft: Education Edition and Games for Change. Play the game at Nobel Peace Center Nobel Prizes 2021The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 They found hidden patterns in the climate and in other complex phenomenaThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems” with one half jointly to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming” and the other half to Giorgio Parisi “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.”©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 Their tools revolutionised the construction of moleculesThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 was awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 Discoveries of receptors for temperature and touchThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021 was awarded jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian “for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch.”© The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias KarlénThe Nobel Prize in Literature 2021An unending exploration driven by intellectual passionThe Nobel Prize in Literature 2021 was awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach.The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 For their efforts to safeguard freedom of expressionThe Nobel Peace Prize 2021 was awarded jointly to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 Natural experiments help answer important questionsThe Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021 was divided, one half awarded to David Card “for his empirical contributions to labour economics”, the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens “for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.”©Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesNobel Prize lessonsEasy to use lessons about the 2021 Nobel PrizesNow you can bring the achievements made by the 2021 Nobel Prize laureates into the classroom! The lessons are so easy to use that a teacher can look through the guide, watch the slides, print the texts for students and then start the class. The Nobel Prize medal Photo: Alexander MahmoudExplore prizes and laureatesAlfred Nobel – Established the Nobel PrizeAlfred Nobel's last willOn 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will in Paris, France. The Swedish dynamite millionaire, who thought that his invention would end all wars, had now realised that it was a very deadly product. Wanting to make amends, he did what no man of such wealth had done before …The very first Nobel PrizesOn 10 December 1901 the first Nobel Prizes were awarded, in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. Read more about the first prizes.Alfred Nobel – scientist and inventorChemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel left 31 million SEK (today about 265 million dollar) to fund the Nobel Prizes. Read more about his life and work.What are you looking for? 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He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the the unexpected discovery that RNA is not only a molecule of heredity in living cells, but also can serve as a biocatalyst.Discoverer of HIV virus Luc Montagnier diesVirologist Luc Montagnier was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 for the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus. He passed away on 8 February, age 89. Former archbishop Desmond Tutu passes awayDesmond Tutu, awarded the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize “for his role as a unifying leader figure in the non-violent campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa”, passed away on 26 December aged 90.Chemist Robert H. Grubbs diesRobert H. Grubbs passed away on 19 December 2021, 79 years old. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2005 for “for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.”About the Nobel Prize organisationThe Nobel FoundationTasked with a mission to manage Alfred Nobel's fortune and has ultimate responsibility for fulfilling the intentions of Nobel's will.The prize-awarding institutionsFor more than a century, these academic institutions have worked independently to select Nobel Prize laureates.Nobel Prize outreach activitiesSeveral outreach organisations and activities have been developed to inspire generations and disseminate knowledge about the Nobel Prize.PressContactFAQPrivacy policyTechnical supportTerms of useFor developersMedia playerJoin usFacebookTwitter Icon Follow The Nobel Prize on Twitter Twitter Instagram Icon Follow The Nobel Prize on Instagram Instagram Youtube Icon Follow The Nobel Prize on Youtube YoutubeLinkedIn IconConnect with The Nobel Prize on LinkedInLinkedInThe Nobel PrizeCopyright © Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2022