Nobel Committee

Two of the Nobel Committees, those for physics and chemistry, as well as the Prize Committee for economics, are located at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine is located at the Karolinska Institutet.

The Nobel Committee for Literature is located at the Swedish Academy.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, appointed by the Storting, has its own supporting body in the form of a the Norwegian Nobel Institute.

A Nobel Committee is the working body responsible for the most of the work involved in selecting Nobel Prize laureates. There are five Nobel Committees, one for each Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Committees for four of the prizes, physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and literature, are working bodies within their prize awarding institutions, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, and the Swedish Academy. These four Nobel Committees only propose laurates, while the final decision is taken in a larger assembly: the entire academy for the prizes in physics,^[1] chemistry,^[2] and literature,^[3] and the 50 members of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for the prize in physiology or medicine.^[4][5]

The fifth Nobel Committee, the Norwegian Nobel Committee responsible for the Nobel Peace Prize, has a different status since it is both the working body and the deciding body for its prize.^[6]

The work involved in selecting laurates for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is done in the same way as for the five Nobel Prizes. The corresponding committee is called the Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.^[7][8]

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