The Winners and Nobel Prize 2023 updates

This week sees the announcement of the Nobel Prizes.

Once more, it's Nobel Prize season. A number of prizes in the sciences, literature, economics, and peace work have winners named each October by committees in Sweden and Norway. There will be a total of six awards given out.

In December, the Nobel Prize winners will be presented with their medals and certificates in Stockholm. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, 15 laureates from 2020 and 2021 received their diplomas and medals in their home countries at the ceremony from the previous year.

Each year, six Nobel Prizes are given out, each honouring a person or group for their ground-breaking work in a particular subject. Prizes are awarded in the fields of physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, economic science, literature, and peace work, the latter of which frequently garners the greatest attention due to the caliber of individuals and organizations nominated.

According to the Nobel committee, there are 351 nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize this year. In comparison to 2016, when 376 candidates were nominated, this is the second-highest number ever. (These are the rules for those nominations.)

Previous recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize include Mother Teresa (1979), the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (1989), Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk, Kailash Satyarthi, and Malala Yousafzai (2014).

Previous recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize include Mother Teresa (1979), the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (1989), Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk, Kailash Satyarthi, and Malala Yousafzai (2014).

Between 5 and 7 a.m. Eastern time on each weekday from Monday through October 9 one prize will be announced. The Nobel Prize's official digital outlets will transmit live announcements from Stockholm and Oslo.