Nobel Prize 2024: When and where to watch the announcements?
The Hindu
2024 Nobel Prize announcements schedule and past winners in Physiology, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, and Peace categories.
The beginning of October means Nobel Prize season. This is when the Nobel committees get together in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the yearly awards. Six days, six prizes, new faces from around the globe added to the world’s most elite roster of scientists, writers, economists and human rights leaders.
2024’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 7–14 October. All of the announcements will be streamed live at nobelprize.org and the Nobel Prize YouTube channel.
Also read: Things to know about the Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prizes are named after Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor, engineer, scientist, and philanthropist.
In his will, written in 1895, Nobel dedicated his fortune to establishing the prizes. He specified that his estate should fund the awards to individuals or organizations that had brought the greatest benefit to humanity in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace.
The first awards were handed out in 1901, five years after Nobel’s death.
The Economics Nobel came into existence in 1968 when Sweden’s central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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