Why is the Nobel Prize awarded in December, when the award ceremony traditionally takes place on December 10 each year?

The Nobel Prize (was founded in 1895 as a fund with a portion of the estate (31 million Swedish kronor) of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the famous Swedish chemist and inventor of nitroglycerine explosives. Worldwide, the Nobel Prize is usually considered the most important award in the field in which it is given.

The Nobel Prizes were initially divided into five prizes for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace, and were first awarded in 1901. In 1968, the Swedish national bank in the 300th anniversary of the establishment, donated a large amount of money to the Nobel Fund, the establishment of the "Swedish national bank in memory of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences",

The prize was first awarded in 1969, people used to call this additional award for the Nobel Prize in Economics. The Nobel Prize consists of a gold medal, a certificate and a prize. On October 7, 2019, the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced, with William Kaelin Peter Ratcliffe? and Greg Semenza won the award.

On October 8, local time, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the awarding of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics to Jim Peebles, Michel Mayer, and Didier Queloz for the award.At 19:00 on the 10th, the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes in Literature were awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke.On October 11, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali.On October 14, the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Deveraux and Michael Kramer.