The laureates will receive their awards from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on the 112th anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who established the prizes in his will.
The ceremony will be attended by around 1,500 guests, including Nobel Prize laureates of previous years, as well as members of the Nobel Foundation, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Swedish Academy.
The Nobel Prize website said previous winners will also take part in press conferences, receptions, Nobel Lectures, concerts and a royal banquet.
This year, the following awards will be given:
- in physics, to American Yoichiro Nambu "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" and Japan's Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"
- in chemistry, to Japan's Osamu Shimomura, Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP"
- in physiology or medicine, to French researchers Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discovery of "human immunodeficiency virus" and Germany's Harald zur Hausen "for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer"
- in literature, to France's Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio for works characterized by "poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy" and focused on the environment, especially the desert
- in economic sciences, to American Paul Krugman "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity"
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in Oslo on Wednesday in the presence of King Harald V of Norway to Martti Ahtisaari, Finland's former president, "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts."
The decision to award Ahtisaari has been met with criticism in Russia over his role in Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence.
