The Nobel Prizes have since 1901 been awarded to hundreds of people whose work has led to great advances for mankind, in line with the wishes of inventor Alfred Nobel. Here are five facts to drop into conversations with Swedes.
Cancer research or drugs treating cardiovascular illnesses could win a Nobel Prize on Monday when a week of laureate announcements kicks off, bringing a ray of optimism to a world beset by crises.
The Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for research that has helped understand the role of women in the labour market.
The Swedish Academy on Thursday awarded the Nobel literature prize to Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, whose plays are among the most widely staged of any contemporary playwright in Europe.
The Nobel Prize in Literature - to be announced on Thursday - could go to an overtly political author like a Kremlin critic, or crown a safer or lesser-known writer, experts say.
French-Swedish physicist Anne L'Huillier won the Nobel Physics Prize together with France's Pierre Agostini and Hungarian-Austrian Ferenc Krausz for research into tools for exploring electrons inside atoms and molecules.
Despite Sweden's Nobel prize sum this year being higher than ever, the weak krona means that a lot of foreign prize winners this year have less money than they did 20 years ago, once they convert it to another currency.
Katalin Karikó of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines.
Katalin Karikó, who won the Nobel Medicine Prize for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, paving the way for Covid-19 vaccines, told Swedish media on Monday winning felt "unbelievable".
A week of Nobel Prize announcements gets under way in Stockholm on Monday, with narcolepsy, cancer and mRNA vaccine research among the possible contenders for the Medicine Prize.
Jimmie Åkesson, party leader for the far-right Sweden Democrats, will be invited to the Nobel Prize banquet for the first time this year, alongside the ambassadors for Russia, Iran and Belarus.
Nobel Literature Prize laureate Annie Ernaux warned Wednesday of a dangerous ideology spreading in Europe under the shadow of the war in Ukraine aimed at excluding society's weakest and limiting women's reproductive rights.
Since 1901, Nobel prizes have been awarded for work that has led to great advances for mankind, in line with the wishes of inventor Alfred Nobel. Here are five facts about the prizes and their creator.
US-Japanese scientist Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Giorgio Parisi of Italy on Tuesday won the Nobel
Physics Prize for climate models and the understanding of physical systems, the jury said.
This year's Nobel laureates will receive their prizes at home this week after the coronavirus pandemic forced the traditional Stockholm and Oslo ceremonies to cancel.
American economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for their work on commercial auctions, the Nobel Committee said.
