What to know about the prestigious Nobel Prize awards

The Nobel Prize winners will beryllium announced adjacent week.

The awards are considered among nan world's astir prestigious honours for achievements successful medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics and peace.

The winners will subordinate nan pantheon of Nobel laureates, from Albert Einstein to Mother Teresa.

For nan bid prize, US President Donald Trump has been nominated respective times by group wrong nan US arsenic good arsenic politicians overseas since 2018.

His sanction besides was put distant successful December by a Republican congresswoman for his brokering of nan Abraham Accords, which normalised relations betwixt Israel and immoderate Arab states.

Here are immoderate things to cognize astir nan Nobel Prizes:

A history of nan Nobel Prizes

The Nobel Prizes were created by Alfred Nobel, a 19th-century businessman and chemist from Sweden.

He held much than 300 patents, but his declare to fame earlier nan prizes was having invented dynamite by mixing nitroglycerine pinch a compound that made nan explosive much stable.

Dynamite, which became celebrated successful construction, mining and nan weapons industry, made Nobel a very rich | man.

Toward nan extremity of his life he decided to usage his immense luck to money yearly prizes “to those who, during nan preceding year, person conferred nan top use to humankind.”

The first Nobel Prizes, successful medicine, physics, chemistry, lit and peace, were presented successful 1901, 5 years aft his death.

In 1968, a sixth prize was created, for economics, by Sweden’s cardinal bank.

Though Nobel purists accent that nan economics prize is technically not a Nobel, it’s ever presented together pinch nan others.

The Nobel information process

None of nan nominations are announced by nan prizes' respective committees, and nan Nobel statutes prohibit nan judges from discussing their deliberations for 50 years.

But those doing nan nominating whitethorn take to make their recommendations public.

A personification cannot nominate themselves, though they tin beryllium nominated aggregate times by others, including members of each prize's panel.

Each prize's committee operates somewhat differently, but they each strive to grant Nobel's wish that nan winners person conferred use to humankind.

The bid prize committee is nan only 1 that regularly rewards achievements made successful nan erstwhile year, and nan prize is nan only 1 awarded successful Oslo, Norway.

For nan subject prizes, awarded successful Stockholm, winners often person to hold decades to person their activity recognised by nan Nobel judges, who want to make judge that immoderate breakthrough stands nan trial of time.

The programme for this year's Nobels

The 2025 Nobel Prize announcements footwear disconnected connected Monday pinch nan medicine prize being announced by a sheet astatine nan Karolinska Institute successful Stockholm.

Nobel announcements proceed pinch nan physics prize connected Tuesday, chemistry connected Wednesday and lit connected Thursday.

The Nobel Peace Prize will beryllium announced Friday and nan Nobel Memorial Prize successful Economic Sciences connected October 13.

The awards will beryllium handed retired connected December 10, nan day of Nobel’s death.

Each prize carries an grant of 11 cardinal Swedish kronor (nearly US$1.2 million), and nan winners besides person an 18-carat golden badge and a diploma.

Up to 3 laureates for each grant tin stock nan prize money.

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