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No. In theory anybody could be put forward for a prize and as such being nominated is in no way an endorsement by the Nobel Prize. That is reserved for those individuals and organisations that are selected as Nobel Prize laureates.
The Nobel Prize medal.
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This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place 6–13 October. All announcements will be streamed live here on nobelprize.org.
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Spanish violinist María Dueñas and Semyon Bychkov, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, will perform at the Nobel Prize Concert on 8 December. The programme includes music by Modest Mussorgsky, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Victoria Borisova-Ollas.
María Dueñas.
Photo: Felix Broede
In the exhibition Fighting Disease – Three Stories From the Fields of Medicine, we meet a scientist, a doctor and a nurse who work to prevent disease, administer vaccines and search for new antibiotics.
This year’s Peace Prize exhibition tells the powerful story of Nihon Hidankyo and their work for a nuclear weapon-free world.
A large selection of artefacts from Nobel Prize laureates is on display.
Physicist Ivar Giaever died on 20 June 2025, aged 96. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1973 “for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively”.
Physicist George E. Smith passed away on 28 May 2025, aged 95. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 “for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor”.
Author Mario Vargas Llosa died on 13 April 2025 in Lima, Peru. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2010 “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat”.
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart passed away on 30 December 2024, aged 82. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”.
