The 2026 Nobel Prize laureates will be announced between 5 and 12 October, according to the official calendar. Names are not published before each institution’s statement. Speculative lists are not confirmed information.

Monday 5 October, 11:30 CEST at the earliest: physiology or medicine, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Solna. Tuesday 6 October, 11:45 CEST at the earliest: physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Wednesday 7 October, the same reference time: chemistry, also at the Academy.

Thursday 8 October, 13:00 CEST at the earliest: literature. Friday 9 October, 11:00 CEST: the Nobel Peace Prize, at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, to be announced by the committee chair, Jørgen Watne Frydnes. Press accreditation for Oslo closes on 1 October.

Monday 12 October, 11:45 CEST at the earliest: the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, at the Academy. Livestreams are announced on the official digital channels. Times are CEST; readers in other zones should convert.

Each category is a separate announcement. This account does not guess laureates and does not mix the Peace Prize with the Stockholm prizes.

The source is the Nobel Prize announcement-dates page and the February 2026 press note. After each hour the newsroom may update with the official name and motivation — not before.

5–12 October, six categories, no names in this text. That is what the calendar requires.

Image: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), 1945 Nobel Prize medal in medicine awarded to Alexander Fleming, National Museum of Scotland, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. Not a 2026 laureate’s medal.

Source consulted: Prize announcement dates — Nobel Prize.