Nobel Prize 2025 schedule set as announcements begin Oct 6

The 2025 Nobel Prize announcements begin Monday, Oct. 6, when the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm will reveal the laureate for Physiology or Medicine, launching a series of prize announcements that run through Oct. 13. The Nobel committee released a timetable that places the physics announcement on Tuesday, Oct. 7, and the chemistry announcement on Wednesday, Oct. 8, followed by literature on Thursday, Oct. 9; the Peace Prize on Friday, Oct. 10; and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday, Oct. 13. Several of the sessions will be livestreamed on the official Nobel Prize channels, the committee said.

The prizes trace their origins to the will of Alfred Nobel, who directed that awards be made to those who confer the greatest benefit to humankind. Nominations are accepted only from eligible nominators and, except for the Peace Prize, only by invitation. The awarding institutions review nominations over the course of roughly a year and may only recognize discoveries, not individual reputations, a constraint that shapes deliberations. "We are only allowed to award a discovery, not a person," said Juleen Zierath, a physiologist at Karolinska...