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The 2024 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. The winners in each category were announced from October 7 to October 14.
A list of all the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes in all categories. ... The 2024 Nobel Prize announcements began on Oct. 7, recognizing groundbreaking contributions to humanity.
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, an international peace prize established according to Alfred Nobel's will, [3] was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo (the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations), for their activism against nuclear weapons, assisted by victim/survivors (known as Hibakusha) of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. [4]
Among the 892 Nobel laureates, 48 have been women; the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. [12] She was also the first person (male or female) to be awarded two Nobel Prizes, the second award being the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, given in 1911. [11]
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang (born 1970) "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life". It was announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on 10 October 2024 and was awarded on 10 December 2024. [1]
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discoveries and inventions in machine learning that paved ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -U.S. scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work on decoding the structure of proteins and ...
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to 226 individuals as of 2024. [5] The first prize in physics was awarded in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , of Germany, who received 150,782 SEK . John Bardeen is the only laureate to win the prize twice—in 1956 and 1972.