US EditionWhat to know about the prestigious Nobel Prize, winners set to be announced next week
The 2025 Nobel Prize announcements begin with medicine and include prizes in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and economics, each awarding nearly $1.2 million, the Karolinska Institute said.
- On Monday, the 2025 Nobel Prize announcements kick off at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm with the medicine prize, proceeding daily to the Nobel Peace Prize Friday and economics on Oct. 13.
- By design, nominations are confidential and judges' deliberations stay sealed for 50 years, barring discussion and keeping the process confidential.
- Each Nobel prize carries 11 million Swedish kronor, an 18-carat gold medal, a diploma, and up to three laureates can share the prize money.
- U.S. and Nobel officials warn funding cuts could erode America's lead in science as the National Institutes of Health terminated 2,100 research grants and $2.6bn in contracts.
- On the peace prize front, nominations have drawn political attention, notably multiple submissions for U.S. President Donald Trump since 2018, including a December Republican congresswoman citing the Abraham Accords.
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