Nobel Committee

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A Nobel Committee is the working group entrusted with nominating candidates for the Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prize is awarded in five thematically different categories. There is a separate Nobel Committee for each of the five categories.

Four of the five Nobel Committees are working groups within the institutions that also award the Nobel Prize. The Royal Swedish Academy is responsible for the Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry , the Karolinska Institute for physiology or medicine, and the Swedish Academy for literature . The Nobel Committees only propose possible award winners, while the final decision on a shortlisted candidate is made by a larger assembly. In the case of the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry and Literature, the latter is made up of the entire Academy, and for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine it consists of 50 members of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute.

The fifth Nobel Committee, the five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee responsible for the Nobel Peace Prize , whose members are elected by the Norwegian Parliament , has a special status as it is both the proposing working group and the body that awards the Nobel Prize.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/prize_awarder/index.html Decision-maker for the Nobel Prize in Physics, accessed on March 28, 2014
  2. ↑ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/prize_awarder/ Decision-maker for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (English), accessed on March 28, 2014
  3. ↑ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/prize_awarder/committee.html Decision-maker for the Nobel Prize for Literature (English), accessed on March 28, 2014
  4. ↑ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/prize_awarder/committee.html Decision-makers for the Physiology or Nobel Medicine Prize (English), accessed on March 28, 2014
  5. ↑ http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1269&l=sv Karolinska Institutet: Nobelpriset - den ärofyllda traditions (Swedish), accessed on March 28, 2014
  6. ↑ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/prize_awarder/index.html Decision-makers for the Nobel Peace Prize (English), accessed on March 28, 2014