The winners of this year's Nobel Prizes are to receive their awards in Oslo and Stockholm on Tuesday.
Nihon Hidanky, the Japanese organization representing survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings, is to be honoured in the Oslo city hall at 1 pm (1200 GMT).
The award is "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again," according to the official citation.
Three hours later, the ceremony for the other prizes will start in Stockholm's concert hall. They include the Literature Prize, which has gone to South Korean author Han Kang, and 10 other winners in Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences.
The names of the winners were announced at the start of October by the various institutions tasked with awarding the prizes.
The prestigious Nobel medals are traditionally distributed on December 10, the date marking the death of Alfred Nobel (1833-1896),the inventor of dynamite.
This year, the prizes are worth 11 million Swedish krona ($1million).
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