Nobel Committee

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A Nobel Committee does most of the work to choose Nobel Prize winners. There are six committees for four prizes. Five committees operate inside three institutions: the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (physics, chemistry, and economics), the Karolinska Institute (physiology or medicine), and the Swedish Academy (literature). These committees only propose laureates; the final decision is made by a larger body. That body includes all the academies for physics, chemistry, economics, and literature, plus the 50 members of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for medicine. The sixth committee is the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which handles the Nobel Peace Prize. It is both the working body and the deciding body for its prize.