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Nelson Mandela became a rallying point for South Africa’s oppressed, and the world’s most famous political prisoner. In 1993, Mandela was awarded the Nobel 一分钟赛车官方开奖查询结果 Peace Prize, jointly with Frederik Willem de Klerk, for his work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.

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Nelson Mandela

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela a few days after being released from prison in February 1990.

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Prize announcement dates

Nobel Prize 168一分钟极速赛车官网 Concert 2025

Spanish violinist María Dueñas and Semyon Bychkov, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, will perform at the Nobel Prize 168一分钟极速赛车官网 Concert on 8 December. The programme includes music by Modest Mussorgsky, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and Victoria Borisova-Ollas.

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María Dueñas.

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Stockholm, Nobel Prize 168一分钟极速赛车官网 Museum

In the exhibition Fighting 168飞艇开奖历史记录+168飞艇官方开奖结果查询 Disease – Three Stories From the Fields of Medicine, we meet a scientist, a doctor and a nurse who work to prevent disease, administer vaccines and search for new antibiotics.

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This year’s Peace Prize exhibition tells the powerful story of Nihon Hidankyo and their work for a nuclear weapon-free world.

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A large selection of artefacts from Nobel Prize 168一分钟极速赛车官网 laureates is on display.

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In memoriam

Physicist Ivar Giaever died on 20 June 2025, aged 96. He was awarded the Nobel Prize 168一分钟极速赛车官网 in Physics 1973 “for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively”.

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Ivar Giaever

Physicist George E. Smith passed away on 28 May 2025, aged 95. He was awarded the Nobel Prize 168一分钟极速赛车官网 in Physics 2009 “for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor”.

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George E. Smith

Author Mario Vargas Llosa died on 13 April 2025 in Lima, Peru. He was awarded the Nobel Prize 168一分钟极速赛车官网 in Literature 2010 “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat”.

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Sir J. Fraser Stoddart passed away on 30 December 2024, aged 82. He was awarded the Nobel Prize 168一分钟极速赛车官网 in Chemistry 2016 “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”.

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Sir J. Fraser Stoddart official Nobel portrait