Millions for the Nobel Prize. This year's announcement schedule and record-breaking prizes

Millions for the Nobel Prize. It's not just a medal and prestige

In each of the six fields in which Nobel Prizes are awarded, CZK 12 million will be paid, i.e. over EUR 1 million - CZK 1 million more than in 2025. The Nobel Prize also traditionally includes a gold medal with the image of Alfred Nobel and a calligraphed diploma. In 2019, our Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk received a check for 9 million crowns, i.e. approx. PLN 3.5 million.

Final preparations in Stockholm

The last preparations before the presentation of this year's Nobel Prize winners are underway at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm. Their images will appear on the screens immediately after their names are announced, and in a few weeks the exhibition will be expanded to include personal souvenirs donated by them. In the museum cafe, chairs are waiting for the autographs of subsequent Nobel Prize winners.

Nobel Prize 2026 – schedule, broadcast

The Nobel Prizes will be announced at specific times:

October 5, Monday - medicine - planned announcement time: from 11:30

October 6, Tuesday - physics - planned announcement time: from 11:45

October 7, Wednesday - chemotherapy - planned announcement time from 11:45

October 8, Thursday - literature - planned announcement time: from 1:00 p.m

October 9, Friday - Nobel Peace Prize - planned announcement time: from 11:00

October 12, Monday - economic sciences - planned announcement time: from 11:45.

The announcement of the winners in each field is a ceremony that, in recent years, for security reasons, was only available to journalists and invited guests. Just a dozen or so years ago, anyone could attend. Recently, Internet broadcasts available on the Nobel Foundation website - www.nobelprize.org - have become a significant facilitation.

The Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize arouse the greatest emotions

On Thursday, October 8, the new secretary of the Swedish Academy, Ingrid Carlberg, will announce the name of the writer, poet or playwright for the first time in this role in the Exchange Hall in Stockholm's Old Town. In recent years, the award went to a woman and a man alternately. If this informal rule continues, we should expect a Nobel Prize winner this year.

In turn, the Nobel Peace Prize, in accordance with Alfred Nobel's will, will be awarded in the capital of Norway, Oslo. On Friday, October 9, the decision of the five-member Norwegian Nobel Institute, appointed by the Norwegian Parliament, will be announced by Chairman Joergen Watne Frydnes. All we know is that this year, 208 people and 79 organizations were nominated for the award. In the record year 2016, 376 candidates were submitted.

Donald Trump's Holy Grail

Asle Sveen - a historian who has been dealing with the Nobel Prize for 40 years - assessed that the US president has absolutely no chance of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize this year. In his opinion, Donald Trump has already understood that he will never receive this distinction. The Norwegian scientist has no doubt about this - in the face of the disastrous war in the Middle East started by Trump.

For another expert, Oeivind Stenersen, US foreign policy under Trump has undermined the stability of the post-war order, and his "megalomania and one-sidedness" have become a serious threat to the West's core values. Sveen also remembered Maria Corina Machado, who presented Trump with the Nobel medal after receiving last year's Nobel Peace Prize.