One-minute crash course
How much do you know about the achievements awarded the 2025 Nobel Prizes? Take our one-minute crash course on each of this year’s Nobel Prizes and laureates.
Nobel Prizes 2025
Physics
This year’s laureates conducted experiments with an electrical circuit in which they demonstrated both quantum mechanical tunnelling and quantised energy levels in a system big enough to be held in the hand.
Chemistry
The 2025 chemistry laureates have created molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow.
Physiology or medicine
The laureates made groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body.
Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.
Peace
As the leader of the democracy movement in Venezuela, Maria Corina Machado is one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times.
Economic sciences
This year’s laureates in economic sciences explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress.
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What’s on
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Stockholm, 6–14 December
Nobel Week Lights
A light art festival inspired by the Nobel Prize. -
Oslo, 11 December
Nobel Peace Prize Forum 2025
Ballots not Bullets: The Democratic Pathway to Peace. -
Oslo, 12 December 2025–30 September 2026
Nobel Peace Prize exhibition
Democracy on the Brink: defending democracy in the face of authoritarian rule.
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Kailash Satyarthi and the 2014 Nobel Prize laureates.
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In memoriam
James Watson died on 6 November 2025 in East Northport, New York, USA, aged 97. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1962 “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.”
Chen Ning Yang passed away on 18 October 2025 in Beijing, China, aged 103. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1957 “for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles.”
Sir John B. Gurdon died on 7 October 2025, aged 92. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 “for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent.”
George F. Smoot passed away on 18 September 2025, aged 80. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2006 “for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.”
