Nobel Prize 2024

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Nobel Prize 2024

Nobel Prize 2024 has been awarded in six fields, i.e., Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Economics, Peace, and Literature. 02 persons have been awarded the unshared Nobel Prize in Literature and Peace, and 01 woman Ms. Han Kang has also received the Nobel Prize Literature.

Nobel Prize in Medicine

  • Victor Ambros
    • “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”
    • He belongs to USA
  • Gary Ruvkun
    • “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”
    • He belongs to USA

Nobel Prize in Physics

  • John J. Hopfield
    • “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”
    • He belongs to USA
  • Geoffrey Hinton
    • “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”
    • He belongs to United Kingdom

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  • David Baker
    • “for computational protein design”
    • He belongs to USA
  • Demis Hassabis
    • “for protein structure prediction”
    • He belongs to United Kingdom
  • John Jumper
    • “for protein structure prediction”
    • He belongs to USA

Nobel Prize in Economics

  • Daron Acemoglu
    • “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”
    • He belongs to USA
  • Simon Johnson
    • “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”
    • He belongs to United Kingdom
  • James A. Robinson
    • “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”
    • He belongs to USA

Nobel Peace Prize

  • 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”
    • Tokyo, Japan

Nobel Prize in Literature

  • Han Kang
    • “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”
    • She is from South Korea, and the unshared Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to her.

Some Facts about Nobel Prizes

  • According to Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel’s will of 1895, after his death, the Nobel Prize was first awarded in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and Peace in 1901.
  • Nobel Prize in Economics was first awarded in 1969 by Sweden central bank (Sveriges Riksbank).
  • All Nobel Prizes except Nobel Peace Prize are awarded from Stockholm Sweden on 10th December.
  • Nobel Peace Prize is awarded from Oslo, Norway.
  • Linus Pauling is the only person who has been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes
    • Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954.
    • Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.
  • Five persons have received Nobel prize twice.
  • Nobel Prize have been awarded to women 66 times between 1901 and 2024. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the Nobel Prize. This means that 65 women in total have been awarded the Nobel Prize between 1901 and 2024.
  • Marie Curie was awarded Nobel Prizes twice
    • Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903
    • Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.