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Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
The Nobel institutions say bluntly that once a prize is awarded it cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred — a finality grounded in the Nobel Foundation’s statutes and the practice of the prize comm...
The Nobel Committee evaluates Peace Prize candidates primarily against the terms of Alfred Nobel’s will — who “has done the most or the best” work for fraternity between nations, reduction/abolition o...
The Nobel Prizes, as administered by the Nobel Foundation and its committees, are ; historians and institution representatives state the committees have no mechanism to rescind a prize after the annou...
The Nobel Peace Prize carries a headline cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (SEK) per prize category as of 2023 — a sum the Nobel Foundation set after a 2020 increase and a further adjustment in ...
The core claim across the supplied analyses is consistent: , rather than by contemporary external “donors.” The pieces together describe Nobel’s fortune as the source, the Nobel Foundation as the fina...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee selects Peace Prize laureates from nominations submitted by a defined, eligible group and evaluates candidates , insulated from media campaigns and government direction. ...
The Nobel Peace Prize cash award is set annually by the Nobel Foundation and in recent years has been , though the exact figure has varied over time and can be split among up to three laureates in a g...
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announces the Nobel Peace Prize on the Friday of the first full week of October — in recent practice that has been the second Friday of October (for example, the 2025 lau...
No — the Nobel Peace Prize cannot be transferred to another person: the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Nobel Institute state unequivocally that once announced the prize “cannot be revoked, shared, ...
The membership of Nobel Prize selection committees is determined by a mix of institutional rules and national appointments: *Swedish committees* are appointed or elected by Swedish institutions (Royal...
The core claim across the materials is consistent: the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2025 was announced in October, with news pointing specifically to October 10 as the day of the announcement, while...
The key fixed dates for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize cycle are: , the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s early meeting on , the laureate announcement on (at 11:00 CEST), and the award ceremony on in Oslo. Thes...
The Nobel Foundation set the monetary award for a full Nobel Prize at 11.0 million Swedish kronor (SEK) in its public materials for the 2025 awards, a figure repeatedly presented on official Nobel sit...
The Nobel Peace Prize nomination process is invitation-based and tightly regulated: valid nominations must be submitted by 31 January each year, nominations are kept secret for 50 years, and the Norwe...
The available analyses show no explicit documentary prohibition in the Nobel statutes against awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to a convicted felon; the reviewed sources emphasize the prize’s secretive se...
The Nobel Committees operate a largely secretive, merit-focused nomination and selection system that emphasizes a nominee’s work “for the preceding year” and resists external campaigning; their public...
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded chiefly on the basis of , evaluated by the Norwegian Nobel Committee according to Alfred Nobel’s will; media attention and external campaigns are officially stated as ...
A convicted felon can be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize because the prize statutes and Alfred Nobel’s will set substantive criteria focused on advancing peace and fellowship, not on excluding candidate...
Nobel Peace Prize winners can and frequently do donate their prize money to charities or use it to fund further work, and there is historical precedent across laureates for directing cash awards towar...
The Nobel Prizes are effectively irrevocable under current governing documents: neither Alfred Nobel’s will nor the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation provide a mechanism to rescind an award, and the Fo...