From poetic prose that confronts historical traumas to achieving a world free of nuclear
weapons.
From predicting proteins’ complex structures to training artificial neural networks using
physics.
From microRNA to new insights into how institutions affect prosperity.
PHYSICS
Jhon J .Hopefield
Prize motivation: “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable
machine
learning with artificial neural networks”
Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base
modifications
that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”
Prize motivation: “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”
Prize motivation: “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the
effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures
and continents”
Prize motivation: “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable
machine
learning with artificial neural networks”
Chemistry 2024
David Baker
Prize motivation: “for computational protein design”
Medicine 2024
Victor Ambros
Prize motivation: “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in
post-transcriptional gene regulation”
Peace 2024
Nihaon Hidankyo
Prize motivation: “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”
Literature 2024
Han Kang
Prize motivation: “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes
the fragility of human life”