Nobel Chemistry Prize 2026: Everything We Know
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2026 will be announced on October 7. Here is everything we know about the award.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences makes the announcement. It comes at 11:45 AM CEST. That is 3:15 PM in India.
The prize will be streamed live online. Millions of science fans tune in each year.
This year’s Nobel season is underway. The medicine prize went to a trio for optogenetics work. The physics prize went to researcher Francis Halzen.
Prediction lists give hints about possible winners. Clarivate names researchers David Liu for base and prime editing. It also lists John Gray and James Winkler for electron transfer work.
Allara, Nuzzo and Sagiv are picked for self-assembled monolayers. Last year’s chemistry prize went to work on metal organic frameworks.
The winner gets 12 million Swedish kronor. The full citation will explain what the discovery means for science. The announcement will be streamed live from Stockholm.
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