Nobel Prize in Physics to be announced at 11.45am
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the 2026 laureates on Tuesday.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced from 11.45am Dutch time on Tuesday. At the time of writing, the laureates have not yet been announced.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will publish its decision on the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday. The announcement will take place in Stockholm and be broadcast through the Nobel organisation’s official channels. The announced time is the earliest possible moment; the announcement may begin a few minutes later.
It is not possible to reliably establish in advance who will receive the prize. The names of nominators and nominees are not made public during the process. Predictions circulating around the announcement are therefore expectations from researchers, science journalists or bookmakers, not information from the Nobel Committee.
The prize may be awarded to a maximum of three people. The jury considers a discovery or development that, according to the prize’s statutes, makes an important contribution to physics. The precise citation will only be made public with the official announcement.
The announcement follows the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel on Monday for their contributions to optogenetics. That is a different field; the medical prize therefore gives no indication of which direction the physics prize will take.
Last year’s physics prize went to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for their work on macroscopic quantum-mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit. This year’s prize may once again reward fundamental research, but it could also recognise an application or measurement method that has pushed the boundaries of a field.
After the announcement, the names, official citation and scientific context will be made available. Only then can it be assessed what exactly the discovery means, which results underpin it and how advanced its application already is. Until then, restraint is important: a possible candidate is not yet a laureate, and a Nobel Prize is not proof that a technology can immediately be put to practical use.
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The publication time and the status of the announcement were directly confirmed by Nobel Prize and ORF. The text avoids predictions about the laureates and clearly separates the physics prize from the medical prize.
- confirmed The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced from 11.45am on Tuesday. — Official Nobel calendar. source
- confirmed The laureates had not yet been announced by the deadline. — The official announcement was scheduled for later on Tuesday. source
- confirmed The 2025 prize went to Clarke, Devoret and Martinis for research into quantum tunnelling and energy quantisation in electrical circuits. — Mentioned in ORF’s review. source
Editor's note
At the deadline, only the time of the announcement was certain. The laureates and the scientific citation were still unknown.Sources
- Prize announcement dates 2026 — Nobel Prize
- Nobelpreise 2026: Physiknobelpreis wird vergeben — ORF Science
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