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Nobel Week Kicks Off: Medicine Prize First
5 Oct
Summary
- Nobel Week begins in Stockholm with medicine prize announcement.
- Physics, chemistry, and literature prizes to follow this week.
- Peace Prize announced in Oslo on October 9; economics on October 12.
The highly anticipated Nobel Week is scheduled to begin in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. The first of these prestigious awards to be announced will be the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Subsequent announcements will unfold throughout the week. The Nobel Committee will reveal the physics laureate on October 6, followed by the chemistry laureate on October 7, and the literature laureate on October 8.
The global attention then shifts to Oslo, Norway, where the Nobel Peace Prize winner will be named on October 9. The final award of the cycle, the State Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, established in 1968, is slated for announcement on October 12.
