STOCKHOLM — STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize winners might be introduced subsequent week.

The awards are thought of among the many world’s most prestigious honors for achievements in medication, physics, chemistry, literature, economics and peace.

The winners will be part of the pantheon of Nobel laureates, from Albert Einstein to Mom Teresa.

For the peace prize, U.S. President Donald Trump has been nominated a number of instances by folks inside the U.S. in addition to politicians overseas since 2018. His title additionally was put forth in December by a Republican congresswoman for his brokering of the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and a few Arab states.

Listed below are some issues to know in regards to the Nobel Prizes:

The Nobel Prizes have been created by Alfred Nobel, a Nineteenth-century businessman and chemist from Sweden. He held greater than 300 patents, however his declare to fame earlier than the prizes was having invented dynamite by mixing nitroglycerine with a compound that made the explosive extra secure.

Dynamite — which grew to become fashionable in development, mining and the weapons business — made Nobel a really wealthy man. Towards the tip of his life he determined to make use of his huge fortune to fund annual prizes “to those that, through the previous yr, have conferred the best profit to humankind.”

The primary Nobel Prizes — in medication, physics, chemistry, literature and peace — have been introduced in 1901, 5 years after his dying. In 1968, a sixth prize was created, for economics, by Sweden’s central financial institution. Although Nobel purists stress that the economics prize is technically not a Nobel, it’s at all times introduced along with the others.

Not one of the nominations are introduced by the prizes’ respective committees, and the Nobel statutes prohibit the judges from discussing their deliberations for 50 years. However these doing the nominating might select to make their suggestions public.

An individual can not nominate themselves, although they are often nominated a number of instances by others — together with members of every prize’s panel.

Every prize’s committee operates barely in a different way, however all of them try to honor Nobel’s want that the winners have conferred profit to humankind.

The peace prize committee is the one one which usually rewards achievements made within the earlier yr — and the prize is the one one awarded in Oslo, Norway. For the science prizes, awarded in Stockholm, winners usually have to attend a long time to have their work acknowledged by the Nobel judges, who wish to be sure that any breakthrough stands the check of time.

The 2025 Nobel Prize bulletins kick off Monday with the drugs prize being introduced by a panel on the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

Nobel bulletins proceed with the physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize might be introduced Friday and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Financial Sciences on Oct. 13.

The awards might be handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s dying. Every prize carries an award of 11 million Swedish kronor (practically $1.2 million), and the winners additionally obtain an 18-carat gold medal and a diploma. As much as three laureates for every award can share the prize cash.

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