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:
Physics
(The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
Invitations to nominate are sent
to:
1. Swedish and foreign members
of the Academy of Sciences;
2. Members of the Nobel Committees
for Physics and Chemistry;
3. Scientists who have been awarded
the Prize by the Academy of Sciences;
4. Permanent and assistant professors
in the sciences of Physics and Chemistry
at the universities and institutes
of technology of Sweden, Denmark,
Finland, Iceland and Norway, and
Karolinska Institutet;
5. Holders of corresponding chairs
in at least six universities or
university colleges selected by
the Academy of Sciences with a view
to ensuring the appropriate distribution
over the different countries and
their seats of learnings; and
6. Other scientists from whom the
Academy may see fit to invite proposals.
Decisions as to the selection of
the teachers and scientists referred
to in paragraphs 5 and 6 above shall
be taken each year before the end
of the month of September.
