ALL-ABOUT NOBEL PRIZES

ALL ABOUT NOBEL PRIZES


ALFRED NOBEL

Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and inventor best known for inventing dynamite. Born in Stockholm, he studied engineering and spent much of his life in various countries, including the United States.

Nobel held 355 patents and was deeply interested in the potential uses of explosives. Despite his success, he was concerned about the destructive power of his inventions. This concern was amplified when a premature obituary called him the "merchant of death," prompting him to establish a lasting legacy.
In his will, Nobel left the majority of his fortune to create the Nobel Prizes, awarded annually for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, and Peace. The first prizes were awarded in 1901, and they continue to honor significant contributions to humanity, reflecting Nobel's desire to promote peace and progress.

10 December 1896 (age : 63) © Sanremo, Liguria, Kingdom of Italy

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HOW & WHEN NOBEL PRIZE AWARD STARTED

Between 1901 and 2024, the Nobel Prizes and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred-Nobel were awarded 627 times to 1,012 people and organisations. With some receiving the Nobel Prize more than once, this makes a total of 976 individuals and 28 organisations. Below, you can view the full list of Nobel Prizes and Nobel Prize laureates.

VARIOUS FIELDS IN WHICH NOBEL PRIZE IS AWARDED


NOBEL PRIZES © AWARDED IN THESE FIELDS

Physics chemistry Physiology
Literature Peace Eco-Sciences

NOMINATION IN ALL FIELDS IN ALL YEARS


2024

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

“for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024

David Baker

“for computational protein design”

Demis Hassabis and John Jumper

“for protein structure prediction”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

“for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024

Han Kang

“for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”

The Nobel Peace Prize 2024

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”

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson

“for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”

2023

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier

“for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023

Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Yekimov

“for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

“for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023

Jon Fosse

“for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”

The Nobel Peace Prize 2023

Narges Mohammadi

“for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023

Claudia Goldin

“for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”

2022

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022

Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger

“for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022

Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless

“for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022

Svante Pääbo

“for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2022

Annie Ernaux

“for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements, and collective restraints of personal memory”

The Nobel Peace Prize 2022

Ales Bialiatski, Memorial, and Center for Civil Liberties

“for their efforts to represent civil society in their home countries”

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022

Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip H. Dybvig

“for research on banks and the stability of the financial system”

2021

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021

Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, Giorgio Parisi

“for their work on understanding complex physical systems”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021

Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan

“for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2021

David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian

“for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

Abdulrazak Gurnah

“for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism”

The Nobel Peace Prize 2021

Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov

“for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression”

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2021

David Card, Joshua D. Angrist, Guido W. Imbens

“for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”

2020

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez

“for their discoveries in astrophysics”

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna

“for the development of CRISPR-Cas9, a method for genome editing”

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020

Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice

“for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus”

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020

Louise Glück

“for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”

The Nobel Peace Prize 2020

World Food Programme (WFP)

“for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas”

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020

Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson

“for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats”


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