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Nobel Peace Prize committee chair in Nagasaki

Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Peace Prize, meets the press after visiting the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in the western Japan city of Nagasaki on July 23, 2025.

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Nobel Peace Prize committee chair in Nagasaki

Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Peace Prize, meets the press after visiting the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in the western Japan city of Nagasaki on July 23, 2025.

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Nobel Peace Prize committee chair in Nagasaki

Jorgen Watne Frydnes (sitting 2nd from R), chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Peace Prize, meets with atomic bomb survivors during a visit to the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on July 23, 2025.

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Nobel Peace Prize committee chair in Nagasaki

Jorgen Watne Frydnes (R), chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Peace Prize, offers a wreath at Peace Park in the southwestern Japan city of Nagasaki on July 23, 2025.

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Nobel Peace Prize committee chair in Nagasaki

Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the Peace Prize, hands a replica of the prize medal to Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki (L) during a visit to the southwestern Japan city on July 23, 2025.

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Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus To Lead Bangladesh Interim Government

File photo dated August 12, 2009 of US President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Professor Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington, DC, USA. Bangladesh’s Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will head the country’s interim government after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down and fled the country amid a mass uprising against her rule led mostly by students. The announcement early on Wednesday came from Joynal Abedin, the press secretary of President Mohammed Shahabuddin. Photo by Olivier Douliery/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

A general view of the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

A general view of the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

A general view of the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

Moungi Bawendi receives The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden during the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

Katalin Kariko receives The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

Katalin Kariko receives The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023 at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

Claudia Goldin receives the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

A general view of the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

Claudia Goldin receives the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

Moungi Bawendi receives The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

Claudia Goldin receives the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

Louis E. Brus receives The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

Moungi Bawendi receives The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

Claudia Goldin receives the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

Claudia Goldin receives the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

Moungi Bawendi receives The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

A general view of the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Nobel Prize Award Ceremony - Stockholm

A general view of the Nobel Prize Awards Ceremony 2023 at Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10, 2023. Photo by David NIVIERE / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Cultural awards

TOKYO, Japan - Recipients of Japan's Order of Culture pose for photos after receiving the awards at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2012. From L are art critic Shuji Takashina, film director Yoji Yamada, international law scholar Shigeru Oda, Japanese-style painter Toshio Matsuo, plant cell and molecular biology authority Yasuyuki Yamada and Nobel Prize in medicine laureate Shinya Yamanaka.

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Cultural awards

TOKYO, Japan - Nobel Prize in medicine laureate Shinya Yamanaka and his wife Chika head to an Order of Culture awarding ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3, 2012.

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Suu Kyi heads for Europe to give Nobel Peace Prize lecture

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves from Yangon's airport June 13, 2012, on a trip to Europe to deliver her Nobel Peace Prize lecture and receive various other awards and honors.

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Suu Kyi heads for Europe to give Nobel Peace Prize lecture

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves from Yangon's airport June 13, 2012, on a trip to Europe to deliver her Nobel Peace Prize lecture and receive various other awards and honors.

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Hiroshima mayor wins Ramon Magsaysay Award

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hiroshima City Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba, who was announced as one of the recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay awards, known as Asia's version of the Nobel Prize, on Aug. 2, 2010.

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Taguchi wins Ig Nobel Prize for cutting waste using panda feces

CAMBRIDGE, United States - Fumiaki Taguchi, professor emeritus at the graduate school of medical sciences in Kitasato University, makes a speech during the Ig Noble awards ceremony at Harvard University's historic Sanders Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Oct. 1, 2009. Taguchi is among this year's winners of the Ig Nobel Prize for developing a method to cut kitchen refuse using bacteria derived from giant panda feces.

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Nobel laureate Masukawa returns from Sweden

OSAKA, Japan - This year's Physics Nobel prize laureate Toshihide Masukawa smiles during a press conference at Kansai International Airport near Osaka on Dec. 15 after returning from Stockholm to attend an awards ceremony.

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2 Nobel winners, 4 others receive top cultural awards

TOKYO, Japan - (From left to right) Makoto Kobayashi, a winner of the Nobel physics prize, maestro Seiji Ozawa, novelist Seiko Tanabe, Hironoshin Furuhashi, chairman emeritus of the Japan Swimming Federation, Toshihide Masukawa, a winner of the Nobel physics prize, and Donald Keene, a U.S. scholar in Japanese literature, pose for a photo after receiving the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito during a Culture Day ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Nov. 3.

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Kyoto city awards medal of honor to Nobel laureate Tanaka

KYOTO, Japan - Kyoto Mayor Yorikane Masumoto (R) awards a citizen's medal of honor to Koichi Tanaka (L), the co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, at the Kyoto municipal office on Jan. 20. Tanaka, 43, is a fellow at Kyoto-based precision equipment maker Shimadzu Corp. and has lived in the city for nearly 20 years.

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(4)Koshiba, Tanaka receive Nobel prizes at awards ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Koichi Tanaka (L), co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and his wife Yuko look at the Nobel prize medal at the Stockholm Concerthall on Dec. 10 after an awards ceremony there. Tanaka and Masatoshi Koshiba, co-winner of this year's physics award received their medals and citations from King Carl XVI Gustaf. (Pool photo)

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(5)Koshiba, Tanaka receive Nobel prizes at awards ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Masatoshi Koshiba (L), co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, looks relaxed with his granddaughter Ami Fujii (C) and his daughter Mari Fujii at the Stockholm Concerthall on Dec. 10 after an awards ceremony. (Pool)

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(2) Koshiba, Tanaka receive Nobel prizes at awards ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japan's Koichi Tanaka, co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, receives his Nobel medal from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10. Tanaka, 43, senior engineer at Kyoto-based precision equipment maker Shimadzu Corp., was recognized for his development of a method to analyze life-forming proteins that has paved the way for the development of new medicines and early diagnosis of cancer.

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(3)Koshiba, Tanaka receive Nobel prizes at awards ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Masatoshi Koshiba (L), co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Koichi Tanaka, co-winner of the year's chemistry award, show off their Nobel medals at the Stockholm Concerthall on Dec. 10. (Pool photo)

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Nobel prize winners await ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Stockholm Concert Hall is ready to hold the Nobel prize awards ceremony Dec. 10. (Pool photo)

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(1) Koshiba, Tanaka receive Nobel prizes at awards ceremony

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japan's Masatoshi Koshiba, co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, receives his Nobel medal from King Carl XVI Gustaf at a ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10. Koshiba, 76, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo, was honored for his contribution to confirming the existence of cosmic neutrinos by developing and using a gigantic underground detector called Kamiokande in Kamioka, Gifu Prefecture.

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Tanaka dismisses complaints, defends his Nobel prize+

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Masatoshi Koshiba (L), co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Koichi Tanaka, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, speak at a press conference at the Japanese Embassy in Stockholm on Dec. 9 prior to receiving their awards Dec. 10. Tanaka dismissed complaints from European researchers who said other researchers better deserve the prize, noting he and his team were the first to develop soft desorption ionization methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules.

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Nobel laureate Tanaka speaks at Stockholm Univ.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Koichi Tanaka, co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, speaks Dec. 8 at Stockholm University ahead of the awards ceremony Dec. 10. Tanaka, 43, a senior engineer at Kyoto-based precision equipment maker Shimadzu Corp., explained the origin of macromolecule ionization through lasers.

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Koshiba gives speech ahead of Nobel event

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Masatoshi Koshiba, co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics, gives a speech Dec. 8 at Stockholm University ahead of a Nobel awards ceremony Dec. 10. The 76-year-old University of Tokyo professor emeritus stressed he was able to detect cosmic neutrinos, for which he was honored, because he was well prepared.

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Nobel laureates Tanaka, Koshiba speak of life's best moment

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese Nobel prize winners Koichi Tanaka (L), co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and Masatoshi Koshiba (R), co-winner of the year's physics award, join other laureates at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to meet international news media prior on Dec. 7 to an awards ceremony Dec. 10.

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Nobel winners Koshiba, Tanaka arrive in Stockholm

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Masatoshi Koshiba (L) and Koichi Tanaka attend a news conference in Stockholm on Dec. 5 after arriving in the Swedish capital to receive their 2002 Nobel prizes at an awards ceremony.

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Nobel winners Koshiba, Tanaka leave for ceremony in Stockholm

NARITA, Japan - Masatoshi Koshiba (L) and Koichi Tanaka meet the press at Narita airport on Dec. 5 before leaving for Stockholm to receive their 2002 Nobel prizes at an awards ceremony.

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Nobel laureate Tanaka leaves Kyoto for ceremony in Stockholm

KYOTO, Japan - Koichi Tanaka, co-winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and his wife Yuko arrive at JR Kyoto Station on Dec. 4 in preparation for his trip to attend the Nobel awards ceremony in Stockholm.

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Tanaka honored at imperial tea party

TOKYO, Japan - Empress Michiko speaks to Nobel laureate Koichi Tanaka (R), who was honored at an imperial tea party Nov. 5 with 15 other recipients of this year's Persons of Cultural Merit awards. (Pool photo)

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Ceremony held to honor 16 as Persons of Cultural Merit

TOKYO, Japan - Koichi Tanaka (L), one of 16 recipients of this year's Persons of Cultural Merit awards, receives a citation from Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama at a hotel in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Nov. 5. Tanaka, who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was also awarded this year's Order of Culture on Nov. 3.

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Noyori returns home from Stockholm

NARITA, Japan - Japanese chemist Ryoji Noyori, co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, arrives at Narita airport, accompanied by his wife Hiroko (R), on Dec. 16 after attending an awards ceremony in Stockholm on Dec. 10.

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Noyori 'deeply moved' to be named Nobel prize laureate

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese chemist Ryoji Noyori makes a speech at Stockholm University Dec. 8, saying he is ''deeply moved'' to have been named a joint recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Noyori shared the Nobel chemistry prize with two American chemistry researchers -- K. Barry Sharpless and William Knowles. The Nobel prize awards ceremony is scheduled for Dec. 10.