Nobel week starts tomorrow: when each prize will be announced

Tomorrow begins the week in which the world learns who will receive the 2026 Nobel Prizes. The announcements take place from 5 to 12 October, the Nobel organisation reports on nobelprize.org. All of them will be broadcast live on the official digital channels of the Nobel Prize.

The schedule

Times are in Central European Summer Time, the same as Dutch time. For most prizes this is the earliest time; the announcement may come a little later.

• Monday 5 October, from 11.30: Physiology or Medicine
• Tuesday 6 October, from 11.45: Physics
• Wednesday 7 October, from 11.45: Chemistry
• Thursday 8 October, from 13.00: Literature
• Friday 9 October, 11.00: Peace
• Monday 12 October, from 11.45: the prize in economic sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

Peace: a Norwegian committee

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by a committee of five members appointed by the Norwegian parliament, the Storting, writes the Nobel organisation. This year the committee is chaired by Jørgen Watne Frydnes.

Alfred Nobel's will

On 27 November 1895, a year before his death, Alfred Nobel signed the famous will on which the prizes are based. According to nobelprize.org, most of his estate amounted to more than 31 million Swedish kronor, today roughly 2.2 billion kronor.