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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.
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.
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Swedish: Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901, the others being the ...
Shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics with Em.Segrè [bh] [379] Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar: October 19, 1910 Lahore, now Pakistan: August 21, 1995 Chicago, United States 1957, 1962, 1968, 1969, 1970 Shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics [br] with W.A.Fowler. [380] Clifford Shull: September 23, 1915 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States ...
The Nobel Prizes (/ n oʊ ˈ b ɛ l / noh-BEL; Swedish: Nobelpriset [nʊˈbɛ̂lːˌpriːsɛt]; Norwegian: Nobelprisen [nʊˈbɛ̀lːˌpriːsn̩]) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.
In 2024, he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with John Hopfield "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks." His development of the Boltzmann machine was explicitly mentioned in the citation.
English: Geoffrey E. Hinton of Canada, 2024 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, at the press conference during the 2024 Nobel Prize week in Stockholm, Sweden Date 8 December 2024, 11:21:21
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]