The Nobel Prize in physics is to be announced Tuesday

AP , Tuesday 7 Oct 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced on Tuesday, the second award to be revealed this year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, a day after a trio of scientists won the prize for contributions to medicine.

A bust of Swedish chemist, inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel, founder and namesake of the Nobel Prizes, is pictured on October 6, 2025, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, before the announcement of the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. AFP

The physics honour has been awarded 118 times to 226 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2024.

Last year, artificial intelligence pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the physics prize for helping create the building blocks of machine learning.

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our bodies.

Nobel Prize announcements continue with the chemistry prize on Wednesday and the literature prize on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics will be announced on October 13.

The award ceremony will be held Dec. 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of Alfred Nobel, the wealthy Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite who founded the prizes.

The prizes carry priceless prestige and a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (nearly $1.2 million).