Maharashtra
Nobel Prize Dialogue
- 28 Jul 2025
- 3 min read
Why in News?
The Nobel Prize Dialogue will be held in India for the first time in November 2025, in collaboration with Tata Trusts, with events in Bengaluru and Mumbai.
Key Points
- About:
- The Nobel Prize Dialogue is a prestigious event that brings together Nobel Prize laureates and leading thinkers to engage in discussions about global challenges and solutions.
- The event emphasizes the importance of investing in knowledge, creativity, and the potential of young people to create a more equitable, sustainable, and innovative world.
- The Nobel Prize Dialogue is inspired by the Nobel Week Dialogue, which has been taking place annually in Sweden since 2012, on the eve of the Nobel Prize award ceremony.
- Prominent Participants: Nobel laureates David MacMillan (Chemistry, 2021) and James Robinson (Economic Sciences, 2024) will participate, alongside experts from diverse fields such as science, business, and policy-making.
- Focus Area: The central theme of the dialogue is "The Future We Want", which explores pathways to a sustainable future through collaborative efforts in science, policy, and innovation.
The Nobel Prize
- About: Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, poet, and playwright, established the Nobel Prizes in 1895.
- First Awards: The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901, and they have been awarded annually since. There were no prizes awarded during World War I and World War II.
- Categories: The Nobel Prizes are awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace.
- In 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was added.
- Other Features: A Nobel Prize can be shared by up to three individuals, or an organization in the case of the Peace Prize.
- Nobel Prizes cannot be awarded posthumously.
- Nobel’s will and the Nobel Foundation’s statutes do not allow for the revocation of a Nobel Prize.
