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How many people are invited to submit Nobel Prize nominations each year?
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Nobel Prize
The obverse side of the Nobel Prize medals for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.
Each year, the prize-awarding institutions invite more than 6,000 individuals to submit nominations for the Nobel Prize.21
These invitees include past Nobel laureates, members of the prize-awarding institutions, scholars active in the relevant fields, and officials from various universities and learned academies. While thousands are invited to propose candidates, typically around 1,000 people actually submit nominations for each prize.21