Nobel Prize laureates will receive awards in native countries. The activities of the Nobel week in Stockholm from 6 to 12 will be held for the local audience, the Nobel Foundation reported in his press release.
The presentation of the winners and the award ceremony will be combined and will be held in one day – December 10 – in the Stockholm Town Hall. “The Norwegian Nobel Committee still leaves an open opportunity to take the world’s laureates of the Nobel Prize in Oslo. The format of the Nobel week in Oslo will be announced by the Committee in mid-October,” the Fund’s press release is noted.
According to the Executive Director of the Foundation, Vidar Helgeson, the decision on absentee awards was made due to the “uncertainty about the progress of the Pandemic [Coronavirus] and the possibilities of international trips.” In addition to the awards ceremony, a traditional Nobel banquet will also be held during the Nobel week, as well as lectures of the winners of the awards, seminars and concerts.
Names of Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry and literature, as well as the Nobel Peace Prize and the Swedish State Bank Prize for Economic Memory Sciences Alfred Nobel will be announced from 4 to 11 October.