Nobel Prize Week 2026: the schedule of announcements up to 12 October
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded on Wednesday 7 October at 11.45.
Key points
Nobel Prize Week 2026 is scheduled to take place from 5 to 12 October; the relevant organisations will announce the winners of the 2026 awards in the various categories, with a break at the weekend between the Nobel Peace Prize and the Prize in Economic Sciences.
The calendar kicked off on Monday 5 October, with the announcement of the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine at the Nobel Forum at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
On Tuesday 6 October, it was the turn of Nobel Prize in Physics.
2026 Nobel Prizes yet to be awarded
On Wednesday 7 October, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded at 11.45 am.
On Thursday 8 October, the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced. The announcement is scheduled for 1 pm in the Stock Exchange Hall, inside the Stockholm Stock Exchange building on Stortorget, in the historic centre of the Swedish capital. It is traditionally one of the events that attracts the most attention and the largest audience.
