Vor der Nobelpreis-Bekanntgabe: Nobelpreis-Countdown: Jetzt kommen die Entscheidungen
Wer schreibt in diesem Jahr Nobelpreis-Geschichte? In Stockholm und Oslo werden in dieser Woche die diesjährigen Preisträger verkündet. Los geht es mit der Kategorie Medizin.
In just a few days, the world will learn which scientists and individuals will be awarded with the prestigious Nobel Prizes in Stockholm and Oslo. Today, in the early hours, three scientists from Japan and the United States, Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi, were recognized for their research on the immune system.
Their discoveries have contributed to the development of new therapies. This week will also see the announcement of the Nobel Prizes in Physics on October 6th, Chemistry on October 7th, Literature on October 8th, Peace on October 9th, and the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences' Economics Prize (December 12th). The latter has only been awarded since 1969 and is the only prize not linked to the Swedish industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel.
This year's prizes mark their 125th anniversary. Established five years after Nobel's death in 1901, the first literature prize went to French writer Sully Prudhomme, while the inaugural peace prize was awarded to Henry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross and Frenchman Frédéric Passy, who advocated for international peace conferences.
The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who controversially donated it to US President Donald Trump. The Nobel Institute clarified that the prize is not transferable, even if given symbolically. However, Nobel Institute's Executive Director Haakon Gjerløw noted that the controversy surrounding Trump actually brought international attention to the prize.
Gjerløw suggested that this year, humanitarian organizations such as Save the Children or the Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms network deserved the Nobel Prize for their humanitarian work in the midst of numerous wars and crises. Each of these coveted awards comes with a prize of twelve million Swedish Krona, equivalent to approximately one million euros per category, to be handed over on Nobel's birthday, December 10th, in Stockholm and Oslo.
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