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Medicine Laureate Youyou Tu with her Nobel Prize.
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Chemistry Laureate Aziz Sancar receiving his Nobel Prize from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
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Physics Laureate Takaaki Kajita with his Nobel Medal and Diploma.
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Flowers donated from Sanremo decorates the Stockholm Concert Hall.
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Medicine Laureates Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu, Literature Laureate Svetlana Alexievich and Angus Deaton, Laureate in Economic Sciences on stage.
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The Nobel Banquet: all guests assembled inside the glimmering Blue Hall at the Stockholm City Hall.
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Literature Laureate Svetlana Alexievich at the table of honour.
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Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Physics Laureate Arthur B. McDonald.
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The Nobel Banquet starter: turbot and scallop with sea plants, brown butter and bleak roe, created by chef Sayan Isaksson.
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The menu highlights local ingredients from Scandinavia: here ember bed roasted veal wrapped in mushrooms with celeriac and apple, and potato pithiviers.
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A beautiful dessert: coffee and almond flavoured cherry blossom, designed by pastry chef Daniel Roos.
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The divertissement is an homage to Swedish music in modern times. Here, Seinabo Sey is performing.
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The audience in the Oslo City Hall in Norway awaits the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates.
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The members of the National Dialogue Quartet assembled at stage.
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Houcine Abassi, Secretary General of The Tunisian General Labour Union, UGTT, shows the Nobel Diploma, painted by Willibald Storn.
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Nobel Laureates, world-leading scientists, experts and thought leaders discussed "The Future of Intelligence" at the 2015 Nobel Week Dialogue in Gothenburg.
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"Should we fear or welcome the singularity?" was the theme for one of the discussions, featuring Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, Harry Shum, Ray Kurzweil and moderator Margaret Boden.
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Franz Welser-Möst conducting the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2015 Nobel Prize Concert.
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Daniil Trifonov performing Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 at the Nobel Prize Concert.
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In his Nobel Lecture, Aziz Sancar presented the mechanisms of DNA repair by photolyase and excision nuclease.
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All three Nobel Laureates in Chemistry assembled at the stage after the lectures.
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Physics Laureate Takaaki Kajita lectured about the discovery of atmospheric neutrino oscillations at the Aula Magna in Stockholm.
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The two Nobel Laureates in Physics together at the stage.
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The hall at the Swedish Academy: everybody awaits the entrance of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich.
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"I do not stand alone at this podium ... There are voices around me, hundreds of voices." Svetlana Alexievich delivers her Nobel Lecture.
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In her Nobel Lecture, Medicine Laureate Youyou Tu shared her story about the discovery of Artemisin - "A gift from traditional Chinese medicine to the world".
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Angus Deaton, Laureate in Economic Sciences (middle), looks at how his Prize was interpreted by two fashion students as part of the exhibition 'Nobel Creations' at the Nobel Museum.
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Like many Nobel Laureates before her, Svetlana Alexievich autographed a chair at Bistro Nobel at the Nobel Museum.
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Outside the Nobel Museum journalists from around the world waited for the Nobel Laureates, here Medicine Laureate Satoshi Omura.
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Creating the Nobel Dessert

After the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm, it is time for the evening's Nobel Banquet at the Stockholm City Hall. Head chef Sayan Isaksson and confectioner Daniel Roos created the menu for this year's Nobel Banquet. Watch a time lapse video of the creation of the Nobel Dessert.


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An overview of the 2012 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2012. Photo: Alex Ljungdahl.

Nobel Prize Award Ceremony

Watch the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony from Stockholm, Sweden

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Program for the award ceremony (pdf)
Nobel Banquet. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2012. Photo: Helena Paulin-Strömberg

Nobel Banquet

Banquet Menu
Banquet Program (pdf)
Nobel Laureates' Banquet Speeches
Arthur B. McDonald
Tomas Lindahl
William C. Campbell
Svetlana Alexievich
Angus Deaton


The Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony at the Oslo City Hall in Norway begins with a trumpet fanfare. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2012

Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony

Watch the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony from Oslo, Norway

Speech to the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

2015 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

2015 Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physics


Nobel Prize in Chemistry


Prize in Economic Sciences


Nobel Peace Prize


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine


Nobel Prize in Literature


Franz Welser-Möst. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2015. Photo: Niklas Elmehed

Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2015. Photo: Niklas Elmehed.

2015 Nobel Prize Concert

The 2015 Nobel Prize Concert, featuring conductor Franz Welser-Möst, pianist Daniil Trifonov and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, took place on 8 December at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

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2015 Nobel Week Dialogue Puts Focus on the Future of Intelligence

On 9 December, Nobel Laureates, world-leading scientists, policy makers and the general public joined in an inspiring Nobel Week Dialogue, this year in Gothenberg.

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What Do the Nobel Laureates Receive?

Nobel Diploma Mo Yan

The Nobel Diplomas

Each Nobel Diploma is a unique work of art, created by foremost Swedish and Norwegian artists and calligraphers.

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Nobel medal

The Nobel Medals

The Nobel medals show the image of Alfred Nobel on the face. The image on the reverse varies according to the institution awarding the prize.

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Money

The Prize Amount

The Nobel Prize amount for 2015 was set at SEK 8.0 million per full Nobel Prize. Until 1968, in principle more than three persons could share a Nobel Prize, but this never happened in practice.

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Memories from the Nobel Week

Kurt Wüthrich

"A unique experience"
Kurt Wüthrich, Chemistry 2002

Linda Buck

"A once-in-a-lifetime experience"
Linda Buck, Medicine 2004

More memories

"I have many memories"
John Nash, Economic Sciences 1994

"I became increasingly nervous"
Robert Curl, Chemistry 1996

"It was wonderful"
John Fenn, Chemistry 2002

"I began to feel that this is real."
Reinhard Selten, Economic Sciences 1994

"We had an ice rink near the hotel"
Brian D. Josephson, Physics 1973

"It was truly magical"
William Sharpe, Economic Sciences 1990


Alfred Nobel - The Man behind the Nobel Prize

Alfred Nobel

Scientist and Inventor

Chemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel left 31 million SEK to fund the Nobel Prizes.

Alfred Nobel's life and work
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Inventor of Dynamite

An entirely new industry grew up, based on Alfred Nobel's patents and with Alfred as the initiator.

Alfred Nobel's dynamite companies
Will of Alfred Nobel

A Controversial Will

In his will of 27 November 1895 signed in Paris, Alfred Nobel specified that the bulk of his fortune should be used for prizes.

Excerpt of Alfred Nobel's will
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Alfred Nobel Quiz

How much do you know about the founder of the Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel?

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Nobel Laureates Facts

William E. Moerner receiving his Nobel Prize from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Copyright © Nobel Media AB 2014. Photo: Niklas Elmehed

All Nobel Prizes and Laureates

See all the Nobel Laureates and why they were awarded the Nobel Prize.

All Nobel Prizes


Alice Munro

48 Nobel Prizes to Women So Far

See the list of all Nobel Prize awarded women.

Nobel Prize awarded women


Malala Yousafzai

The Youngest Laureate

The youngest Nobel Laureate ever is 17-year old Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai.

List of all Nobel Laureates by age
Eugunen Fama. Photo: B. Rooney, © University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Lars Peter Hansen. Photo: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License. Robert J. Shiller. Photo: M. Marsland/Yale University

Explore the Nobel Prize Talks Podcast

Get to know the Nobel Laureates a bit better. Find your favourite among the episodes!

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In Memoriam

Douglass C. North

Douglass C. North 1920-2015

Douglass C. North, awarded the 1993 Prize in Economic Sciences, passed away on 23 November. He shed new light on the economic development in Europe and the United States before and in connection with the industrial revolution, and emphasized the role of property rights and institutions.

Biography of Douglass C. North
Richard F. Heck

Chemistry Laureate Richard F. Heck Passes Away

Richard F. Heck, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010 "for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis", passed away on 9 October, 84 years old.

Biography of Richard F. Heck

Yoichiro Nambu

Yoichiro Nambu 1921-2015

Yoichiro Nambu, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics, passed away on 5 July, 94 years old.

Biography
2008 Nobel Prize in Physics

Irwin Rose

Irwin Rose Passes Away

Irwin Rose, 2004 Chemistry Laureate, died on 2 June, 88 years old. His research made it possible to understand at molecular level how the cell controls a number of central processes by breaking down certain proteins and not others.

Biography
2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry