The Nobel Prize 2013 - 2025


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The Nobel Concert was shown yesterday evening at SVT and the video was published at the Nobel Prize website.
The concert starts with the King and Queen arriving and the King's Song is played.

The Nobel Prize published Nobel Minds -discussion at its Youtube. It starts with Victoria's short welcoming speech.

 
King Carl Gustaf met today at the Royal Palace Hanna Stjärne, the new Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation.

About Hanna Stjärne
 
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to:

Mary E. Brunkow
Institute for Systems Biology,
Seattle, USA

Fred Ramsdell
Sonoma Biotherapeutics,
San Francisco, USA

Shimon Sakaguchi
Osaka University,
Osaka, Japan

“for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance”


The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to

John Clarke
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Michel H. Devoret
Yale University, New Haven, CT and
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

John M. Martinis
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

“for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”

 
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 to

John Clarke
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Michel H. Devoret
Yale University, New Haven, CT and
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

John M. Martinis
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

“for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit”

Although they work in the USA, John Clarke is British and Michel Devoret is French. Both of them did their doctorates in Europe (Clarke at the University of Cambridge and Devoret at the University of Paris (Orsay) ).
 
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 to

Susumu Kitagawa
Kyoto University, Japan

Richard Robson
University of Melbourne, Australia

Omar M. Yaghi
University of California, Berkeley, USA

“for the development of metal-organic frameworks”


The Swedish Academy
The Permanent Secretary
Press Release
9 October 2025

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

László Krasznahorkai

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai,

“for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.


The Royal Swedish Academy Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt
“for having explained innovation-driven economic growth”

with one half to

Joel Mokyr
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

“for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress”

and the other half jointly to

Philippe Aghion
Collège de France and INSEAD, Paris, France, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Peter Howitt
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

“for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction”

 
The Royal House updated today its calendar on December 10-11 at the Nobel Prize Ceremony, the Nobel Banquet and the King's Dinner for the Nobel Laureates. Sofia will not attend:
Officiella program _ Kungahuset

Deputy director of the Information Department Johan Tegel said to Svensk Damtidning.
– Princess Sofia will not participate in the Nobel festivities. She will take care of Princess Ines, who is still small.
Svensk Damtidning's editor-in-chief Johan T Lindwall:
– This is extremely surprising. Sofia was even at the Nobel party when she was heavily pregnant and now it has been almost a year since she had her daughter. I think there are more people than me who will miss Sofia in the Blue Hall among all the glitz and glamour.

Interesting, Sofia attended the Nobel Prize events in 2017, although Gabriel was born on August 31.
The King and Queen attend the Nobel Concert on December 8.
 
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I don’t find it surprising at all… Rather expected given that it’s well known that Sofia is on maternity leave this year and has 4 children at home this time…

Next year it may be Carl Philips turn…

The world isn’t collapsing and the nobel prize will survive if Sofia absent a year…
 
Wasn't Princess Sofia's absence from some other event (the specifics slip my mind) also commented upon in the media? If she is missing more events than during her previous maternity leaves, one hopes that is simply her choice and not due to a difficult recovery for her or her daughter.
 
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Wasn't Princess Sofia's absence from some other event (the specifics slip my mind) also commented upon in the media? If she is missing more events than during her previous maternity leaves, one hopes that is simply her choice and not due to a difficult recovery for her or her daughter.

Sofia has a work event tomorrow at Sophiahemmet.
 
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Press programme for Nobel Week in Stockholm

Nobel Week Lights
The magnificent South Vault at the Royal Palace is the venue for a visual artwork during the festival Nobel Week Lights, shedding light on the complexity of peace.
Named after the date of the International Day of Peace (September 21), the immersive artwork 21.09 is dedicated to the universal theme of peace.
Conceived as a visual and sonic fresco, it sheds light on the complexity of peace as a process, emphasising that peace is always more difficult to build than war.
Artwork 21.09
6-14 december 2025
The South Vault, the Royal Palace
 
The King and The Crown Princess Couple gave today an audience to Nobel Foundation's CEO Hanna Stjärne and representatives of the awarding institutions (Hans Ellegren from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Thomas Perlmann from the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute and Mats Malm from the Swedish Academy).
The King, The Crown Princess and Prince Daniel received a presentation of the 2025 Nobel Laureates and their discoveries.

Queen Silvia and Carl Philip were also listed to attend according to the calendar but that was changed. Queen Silvia had to cancel her attendance at the traditional German Women's Club's Advent Celebration yesterday due to cold and Victoria attended instead of her.

According to the calendar, Victoria attends the inauguration of Nobel Week Lights on Saturday December 6.
 
Victoria and Daniel attend also this year the recording of the Nobel Minds discussion on December 9.

From the detailed information for the media:
This year, 14 Nobel Prizes were awarded to 14 laureates. Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded 633 times to 1,026 laureates. As some have been awarded the prize twice, a total of 990 individuals and 28 organisations have received a Nobel Prize or the Sveriges Riksbank Prizein Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Nobel Minds
Since the 1960s, the laureates have during Nobel Week gathered for around table discussion for television called Nobel Minds. The programme has a popular science approach and examines general questions related toscience, research and literature. Several of the 2025 laureates from the scientific disciplines participate in the conversation. The programme is recorded at the Bernadotte Library in the Royal Palace on 9 December in front of an invited audience. The Crown Princess and her husband will also attend. The programme is produced by Sveriges Television and BBC World News. The discussion will for the first time be moderated by Lucy Hockings from the BBC.

The Nobel Prize award ceremony
Nobel Day, 10 December, begins with the traditional Nobel Prize award ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, which will start at 16:00. There will be presentation speeches about this year’s prizes before an audience of about 1,560 guests, who will then watch the laureates as they each receive their medals and diplomas from the hand of H.M. the King of Sweden.
Seated on the stage will be about 90 people. In addition to the 2025 laureates, there will also be laureates from earlier years. Others seated on the stage will include members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Assembly of Karolinska Institutet, the Swedish Academy and the Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation. Seated in front of them on the stage will be this year’s laureates and members of the Swedish Royal Family: H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf, H.M. Queen Silvia, H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria and H.R.H. Prince Daniel. In the first row closest to the stage, the following guests will be seated: H.R.H. Prince Carl Philip, as well as H.R.H. Princess Madeleine and Mr Christopher O’Neill.

The Nobel Prize banquet
After the ceremony at Konserthuset Stockholm, it will be time for the evening’s Nobel Prize banquet at Stockholm City Hall. The banquet programme will follow tradition and begin with the entry procession of the Royal Family and other guests of honour down the grand stairway and into the Blue Hall at 19:00 CET. Prior to this, the guests of honour will have been presented to the Royal Family in the Prince’s Gallery in City Hall.
A lot more information about the Nobel Week here:
Nobel Week Detailed information for the media

Preliminary time schedule for the 2025 Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet

Preliminary seating plan for the Nobel Prize award ceremony 2025

Jacob Mühlrad’s newly composed work inspired by quantum physics performed at the Nobel Prize banquet
Newly composed work inspired by quantum physics - NobelPrize.org

Nobel Prize banquet chefs and pastry chef 2025
For the first time, the Nobel Prize banquet chef consists of a duo
This year, chef duo Tommy Myllymäki and Pi will be in charge of the first and main course for the 1,300 guests in the Blue Hall on 10 December. They are joined by Frida Bäcke, who for the second year in a row will create the evening’s dessert.
Nobel Prize banquet chefs and pastry chef 2025 - NobelPrize.org

100 students get to experience the Nobel Prize award ceremony on 10 December
One hundred secondary school students and teachers are now for the first time invited to the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Konserthuset Stockholm to see when the laureates are awarded their medals and diplomas.
“We want young people to feel that science and knowledge are things that concern them. Experiencing the Nobel Prize award ceremony on site represents a way of triggering that curiosity. The Nobel Prize is about recognising efforts that make the world a better place. By inviting young people, we want to show that the future is in their hands”, says Hanna Stjärne, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation.
100 students to the Nobel Prize award ceremony - NobelPrize.org
 
Victoria attended the inauguration of the Nobel Lights at the Royal Palace this afternoon.
With her Marshal of the Realm Fredrik Wersäll, President of the Stockholm City Council Olle Burell, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation Hanna Stjärne, co-founder of the Nobel Lights Annika Levin, artist and creator Jessica Guichard and artist Alexis Turchet.
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Profimedia gallery
 
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Here are some additional photos:


** rex gallery ** ppe gallery **

 
Victoria, Estelle, Oscar and Rio visited the 21.09 light installation of the Nobel Week Lights at the Royal Palace today. A short video is at the Royal House's Instagram stories.
Svensk Damtidning's article:

And Svensk Damtidning's article from yesterday:
 
The King and Queen attended the Nobel Prize Concert at the Stockholm Concert Hall yesterday evening.
The Concert is a musical tribute to the Nobel Laureates.
The Royal Swedish Philharmonic Orchestra was conducted by Semyon Bychkob during the evening. Violinist María Dueñas also performed during the concert.

The Nobel Prize Concert will be shown at SVT2 and SVT Play on December 13.

The seating plan at the Table of Honour of the Nobel Prize Banquet
Angela Merkel and her husband attend and are seated to the Table of Honour.
Table of Honour 2025
 
Wonder why Merkel and Sauer are invited ? 🤔 Do they have a connection to some laureate ?

I know she’s a doctor in quantum chemistry and a scientist but many people are…. Unless they have a family connection to someone, it would have made more sense to invite either more former laureates or more royals in my opinion…
 
Wonder why Merkel and Sauer are invited ? 🤔 Do they have a connection to some laureate ?

I know she’s a doctor in quantum chemistry and a scientist but many people are…. Unless they have a family connection to someone, it would have made more sense to invite either more former laureates or more royals in my opinion…

I found these connections between Angela Merkel and Nobel:
Angela Merkel is a member of the Honorary Senate of the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, the most prestigious committee of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Its members function as advisors to the board and distinguished ambassadors for the cause of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.
And:
Angela Merkel sits at the banquet beside László Krasznahorkai, the Laureate in literature. The Nobel Prize tells at its website:
"Another recurring theme in Krasznahorkai is the important role that music and art can play for us humans. The novel Herscht 07769 is about the gentle graffiti cleaner Florian Herscht. He is convinced that the end of the universe is near and writes letters to Chancellor Angela Merkel to try to warn her."
 
Victoria wears Queen Silvia's Nobel gown from 1994, designed by Jacques Zehnder. I've been waiting for her to wear it.
Queen Silvia and Madeleine wear gowns they had at the King's Golden Jubilee Banquet in 2023.

 
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Is she still together with Philipp Haug ? He is clearly not here in Stockholm as he is not seated at the table of honour, while she is…
 
Is she still together with Philipp Haug ? He is clearly not here in Stockholm as he is not seated at the table of honour, while she is…
In the summer Bettina and Philipp were together at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. And at the website of Mainau "Bettina Gräfin Bernadotte ist verheiratet mit Philipp Haug".

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Madeleine
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SVT Play shows already now from the Banquet, people are arriving, it starts at 19.00.
Nobel_ Banketten – Nobel 2025_ SVT Play

Link to the Banquet broadcast:
Nobel_ Banketten – Nobel 2025_ Banketten _ SVT Play

Angela Merkel's husband Joachim Sauer collaborates with Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Omar Yaghi.

The Menu:

Damernas Värld's editor-in-chief Jonna Bergh (women) and Stiljournalen's Fredrik af Klercker (men) gave points of the outfits:
Queen Silvia 4 out of 5
Victoria 5
Madeleine 3
King Carl Gustaf 5
Daniel 4
Carl Philip 3

Group photo taken before the ceremonies. HQ version can be found at the Royal House's media centre.


Tord Magnuson to Svensk Damtidning:
– You don't go to parties if you're not invited. Everything has its time, says Tord Magnuson.
How come you and Princess Christina haven't received an invitation? You always go to the Nobel?
– Don't ask us. You could call it a Nobel pension.
Why Princess Christina and Tord Magnuson haven't been invited to this year's Nobel is unclear. Svensk Damtidning has contacted both the court and Nobel for comment – but no response.
 
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