1. Each year the respective committees
send individual invitations to thousands
of scientists, members of academies
and university professors in numerous
countries, asking them to nominate
candidates for the Nobel Prizes
for the coming year. Those who are
competent to submit nominations
are chosen in such a way that as
many countries and universities
as possible will be represented.
2. These prize nominations must
reach the respective Nobel Committees
of the Prize Awarding Institutions
before February 1 of the year for
which the nomination is being made.
3. The nominations received by
each committee are then evaluated
with the help of specially appointed
experts. When the committees have
made their selection among the nominated
candidates and have presented their
recommendations to the Prize Awarding
Institutions, a vote is taken for
the final choice of Laureates.
4. The choice of the year's Laureates
is announced immediately after the
vote in October each year.
5. The prizes are awarded at the
Prize Award Ceremony at the Concert
Hall in Stockholm, Sweden, on December
10 (the Anniversary of Alfred Nobel's
death). The Nobel Peace Prize is
awarded on the same day at the City
Hall in Oslo, Norway.
The procedure to nominate candidates
for the Nobel Prizes varies somewhat
among the Prize Awarding Institutions.
Excerpts from the Special Regulations
on the awarding of Nobel Prizes:
Peace
(The Norwegian Nobel Committee)
Invitations to nominate are sent
to:
1. Active and former members of
the Norwegian Nobel Committee and
the advisers appointed by the Norwegian
Nobel Institute;
2. Members of the national assemblies
and governments of the different
states and members of the Interparliamentary
Union;
3. Members of the International
Court of Justice at the Hague and
the International Court of Arbitration
at the Hague;
4. Members of the Commission of
the Permanent International Peace
Bureau;
5.Members and associate members
of the Institut de Droit International;
6. University professors of political
sciences and jurisprudence, history
and philosophy;
7. Persons who have been awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize.
