Nobel Prize ceremonies to be curtailed again due to pandemic

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize ceremonies volition beryllium reined successful and scaled-down for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a enactment owed to the coronavirus pandemic, the instauration down the coveted prizes said Thursday.

The winners of this year’s prizes successful chemistry, literature, physics, medicine and economics, arsenic good arsenic the Nobel Peace Prize, are acceptable to beryllium announced betwixt Oct. 4 and Oct. 11.

“It is present besides wide that this year’s Nobel festivities successful December − erstwhile the laureates are honored successful Stockholm and Oslo − volition beryllium a substance of integer and carnal events,” the Nobel Foundation said.

The laureates volition person their Nobel Prize medals and diplomas successful their location countries, the instauration said. It said the presumption events volition beryllium woven unneurotic with an awards ceremonial astatine Stockholm City Hall connected Dec. 10, which is the day of the decease of prize laminitis Albert Nobel. The bid prize is awarded successful Oslo, Norway, due to the fact that Nobel wanted it that mode for reasons helium kept to himself.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee is keeping unfastened the anticipation of welcoming the Nobel Peace Prize victor oregon winners to Oslo, the instauration said. The committee plans to denote the format of its festivities successful mid-October.

“I deliberation everybody would similar the COVID-19 pandemic to beryllium over, but we are not determination yet,” Nobel Foundation Executive Director Vidar Helgesen said successful a statement. “Uncertainty astir the people of the pandemic and planetary question possibilities is the crushed wherefore the 2021 laureates volition person their medals and diplomas successful their location countries.”

Helgesen said the instauration is “looking guardant to reaching adjacent much radical astir the satellite by utilizing caller formats and integer solutions.”

“It is wide that successful Stockholm and Sweden, determination volition beryllium little attraction astir the grant ceremonial and banquet, but globally we effort to put a truly bully solemnisation of the grant winners,” helium was quoted arsenic saying by Swedish quality bureau TT.

The pandemic curtailed the celebrations to grant the 12 laureates named successful 2020. No ceremonial banquet was held to grant the winners. Instead, their achievements were recognized and rewarded astatine low-key ceremonies successful Europe and the United States.

Looking astatine past year’s events, “some of the integer accumulation gained greater planetary scope than we person seen before,” Helgensen told TT.

A Nobel Prize comes with a 10-milion krona ($1.15 million) currency grant — to beryllium shared successful immoderate cases — diplomas and golden medals.

The six awards are handed retired by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Nobel Assembly astatine the Karolinska Institutet, the Swedish Academy and the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Jan M. Olsen successful Copenhagen contributed to this report.