The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced today, Tuesday, at 3:15 PM IST by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. It is the second announcement of this year's Nobel week, which began on Monday with the medicine prize. The physics prize rewards discoveries or inventions that have changed how we understand the physical world.

Past winners include work on quantum computing, lasers, and the structure of the universe. The announcement is streamed live on the Nobel Prize's official channels. The medicine prize went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, and Georg Nagel for optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control nerve cells.

That news has put brain science and quantum technology in the spotlight as possible themes for physics. The announcement schedule is fixed. Chemistry follows on Wednesday, literature on Thursday, and the peace prize on Friday.

The economics prize is announced on October 12. Winners this year will each receive 12 million Swedish kronor. That is a record amount, and it applies across all six prizes.

The sum equals about 1.06 million euros.