Recently the 2024 Nobel Prize winners have been announced in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Peace, Literature and Economic Sciences.
Complete list of 2024 Nobel Prize Winners
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel Assembly announced the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on 07 October 2024.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 was awarded jointly (with equal share) to:
(1) Victor Ambros
UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
(2) Gary Ruvkun
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
» The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is jointly awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 on 08 October 2024.
The prize was shared equally (1/2 each) by two persons:
(1) John J. Hopfield
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
(2) Geoffrey E. Hinton
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
» The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 on 09 October 2024. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three persons:
(1) David Baker
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
(2) Demis Hassabis
Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom
(3) John M. Jumper
Google DeepMind, London, United Kingdom
» The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 was awarded with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M Jumper “for protein structure prediction”.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024
The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish Academy has announced the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature on 10 October 2024.
(1) Han Kang (Prize share: 1/1)
From: Seoul, South Korea
Language: Korean
» The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024 is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.
2024 Nobel Prize Winners: Peace Prize
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced the Nobel Peace Prize 2024 on 11 October, 2024.
(1) Nihon Hidankyo (Prize share: 1/1)
Founded: 1956
Tokyo, Japan
» The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo “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”.
2024 Nobel Prize Winners: Economic Sciences
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 on 14 October 2024.
The prize was shared equally (1/3 each) by three persons:
(1) Daron Acemoglu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
(2) Simon Johnson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
(3) James A. Robinson
University of Chicago, IL, USA
» The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.
About the Award Ceremony:
- Since 1901, the Nobel Prizes have been presented to Nobel Laureates at ceremonies on 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death.
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, founded in 1739, is an independent organisation whose overall objective is to promote the sciences and strengthen their influence in society.
- The Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.
- The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.
- Since 1969, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded at ceremonies in Stockholm.