Nobel Week 2023 - NobelPrize.org (2024)

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Nobel Week 2023 takes place on 6–12 December in Stockholm and Oslo. Many of the events will be streamed and possible to follow online.

The Nobel Week Dialogue 2023 will bring people together from across the spectrum of science, society and culture to explore the future of migration and how to approach that future.

The ceremony contained artistic performances and the speech of Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was represented by her children, seventeen-year-old Ali and Kiana Rahmani.

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 was awarded to the imprisoned Iranian human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi. More than 20 years of fighting for women's rights made her a symbol of freedom and standard-bearer in the struggle against the Iranian theocracy.

Caffarelli, a professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin, winner of the 2023 Abel Prize, considered the Nobel Prize equivalent in mathematics and one of the top international awards.

Nobel Week is more than just a ceremony that honours this year's Nobel Prize laureates – it is also an opportunity to demonstrate Sweden's scientific and cultural triumphs as a nation that promotes high-quality research, art and peace.

The imagination must find its own path.” “Perhaps humankind cannot bear too much reality, but neither can it bear too much unreality, too much abuse of the truth.” “Man is a being realized when there is a reciprocity of respect.” “Mutual respect is the basis of compromise.”

Switzerland-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is the only 3-time recipient of the Nobel Prize, being conferred with Peace Prize in 1917, 1944, and 1963. Further, the humanitarian institution's co-founder Henry Dunant won the first-ever Peace Prize in 1901.

The Nobel Prize comes with a diploma, medal, and cash award. Here is a look at how much the Nobel Prize is worth. Each year the Nobel Foundation decides on the cash prize awarded to each Nobel laureate. The cash prize is 8 million SEK (about US$1.1 million or €1.16 million).

At the age of 17, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and now a documentary she executive produced is nominated for an Oscar.

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I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

On the reverse side of all three “Swedish” Nobel Prize medals, the main inscription is the same: “Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes,”while the images vary according to the symbols of the respective prize-awarding institutions.

The Ig Nobel Prize (/ˌɪɡnoʊˈbɛl/) is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research.

Candidates. On February 22, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that they had received 305 nominations for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, of which 212 are individuals and 93 are organizations. The number this year was fewer than the 343 candidates last year and the lowest since 2019.