{
  "id": 10353992,
  "title": "Vor der Nobelpreis-Bekanntgabe: Nobelpreis-Krimi beginnt aufs Neue: Wen ehren die Jurys?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/vor-der-nobelpreis-bekanntgabe-nobelpreis-krimi-beginnt-aufs-neue-wen",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-28T03:00:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/forschung-innovation/vor-der-nobelpreis-bekanntgabe-nobelpreis-krimi-beginnt-aufs-neue-wen-ehren-die-jurys/100257805.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "The thrilling aftermath of the last Nobel Prize award was amplified on January 1st when Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado presented her medal symbolically to former US President Donald Trump. For the American leader, this was a natural step as he believed he deserved the honor. However, the jury disagreed and honored Venezuelan opposition leader 2025 instead. Many are uncertain whether this was the right decision. With the upcoming Nobel Prize award on October 5th, the question arises: What has the jury learned, and will it influence their decision this time? Although Trump did not receive the Nobel Prize, the stage \"I believe, nonetheless, that the committee will consider the possible negative impact of the prize\" says Haakon Gjerløw, the director of the Oslo Peace Research Institute Prio. The Norwegian Nobel Institute made it clear that a prize recipient cannot pass it on. So, the US President must wait for his own Nobel Prize. But the gesture has an odd touch: the prize for the fight for democracy in Venezuela is suddenly the stage for Trump. This year, Gjerløw is convinced that the committee will choose a less controversial recipient. \"It could be someone working in the humanitarian field.\" An organization? Even before the 2025 award, the Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan caught the committee's attention - local networks that have been organizing humanitarian aid in the form of food, medical care, and temporary housing since the beginning of the war. Meanwhile, the decisions of Nobel juries are always hard to predict. This applies not only to the Peace category but especially to the Literature Nobel Prize. \"It's pure guesswork, you have to admit for some hundreds of writers who come forward,\" says literature critic Denis Scheck. The Swedish Academy, guardian of the Nobel secret in this category, does not look at the cards and will not be guided by proportionality thinking. Nonetheless, alternately a man and a woman are awarded - last year it was the Hungarian László Krasznahorkai. \"Pure guesswork: Who gets the Literature Nobel Prize?\" asks Scheck: \"All three - Canadian Margaret Atwood, American Siri Hustvedt, and Chinese author Can Xue - would deserve the prize.\" If a man were to receive the prize this time, Scheck advocates finally honoring Salman Rushdie. He believes we are living in an era of political and religious totalitarianism, and in Rushdie's work, resistance to both is inscribed. One might think that the Nobel legacy should aspire to a female winner: only 67 women have received one of the coveted prizes among almost 1,000 recipients. Changing this rapidly is not easy for a few recipients per year. The Nobel institutions are aware of the problem, but in the natural sciences, the gap closes slowly. In the categories of physics and chemistry, there have been fewer than ten female laureates since the first Nobel Prize 125 years ago. The economic prize has only three female recipients. The medicine prize, which opens the Nobel cycle, has received 14 women. The Nobel Prize - a man's world, as former Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Göran K. Hansson stated in an interview in 2017: not only the historical underrepresentation of women in scientific careers is decisive, but often the prizes are awarded for discoveries and inventions that have lain dormant for decades. The nominators were long overwhelmingly male. But in one respect, the Nobel Prize will definitely be more female: At the head of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the prizes for medicine (October 5th), physics (October 6th), chemistry (October 7th), and economic sciences (October 12th), is Belgian Ellen Moons since January. This is historic, as she is the first woman in this position since the academy's founding in 1739. For the first time, the Nobel laureates in the three categories will be announced by a woman. The Swedish Radio calls it a \"natural development\" that not only the prizes but also the Nobel institutions will become more female. She is delighted about her new task: \"It's exciting.\" Not only for Moons, but for the world: at the beginning of October, the eyes of the global audience will turn to Stockholm and Oslo.",
  "summary": "Den Friedensnobelpreis bekam Trump nicht – dafür aber die Medaille der Preisträgerin. Bei der Jury dürfte das nicht gut angekommen sein. Jetzt beginnt die nächste Nobel-Runde. Wer bekommt die Preise?",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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