The discovery of insulin and subsequent breakthroughs by Nobel Prize laureates led to advancements in how we treat the chronic disease. Now, efforts are focused on tackling the unfolding diabetes "epidemic" and finding a cure that could relegate the disease to history.
Photograph of Frederick Banting, assisted by Sadie Gairns, performing surgery on a dog.
Credit: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
Artistic visualisation of quantum entanglement in top-quarks.
Photo: CERN
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.
The 2025 chemistry laureates have created molecular constructions with large spaces through which gases and other chemicals can flow.
The laureates made groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body.
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".
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.
This year’s laureates in economic sciences explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress.
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This exhibition features works from the 19th century to the present day—from Francisco Goya’s harrowing depictions of war, through Yoko Ono’s activist pieces, to Barbara Kruger’s bold, graphic messages.
Little Soldiers (2024-2025) by Nanna Heitmann / Magnum Photos. Photo from the Nobel Peace Center's Exhibition "War is Peace?" showing from 12 September 2025 to 7 April 2026.
Nanna Heitmann / Magnum Photos
In the exhibition Fighting Disease – Three Stories From the Fields of Medicine, we meet a scientist, a doctor and a nurse who work to prevent disease, administer vaccines and search for new antibiotics.
Fighting disease: Shadows in sunlight.
Credit: Nobel Prize Outreach
A large selection of artefacts from Nobel Prize laureates is on display.
Malala Yousafzai – awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize – donated this scarf to the Nobel Prize Museum which she wore when she argued for all children's right to education at the United Nations headquarters in 2013.
Photo: Nobel Prize Museum
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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."