2023 Nobel Prize Announcements <Previous Next>

The 2023 Nobel Prizes in Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine as well as Ig-Nobel Prizes have been announced!

While you're here, why not also read about past winners.

N.B. The time of the announcement is given in Stockholm time (Central European Time); subtract 6 hours to get the US Eastern Daylight Time).

Date: Monday, October 9, 2023 (11:45 CEST at the earliest) Prize: ECONOMICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Claudia Goldin for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes. Date: Friday, October 6, 2023 (11:00 a.m. CEST) Prize: PEACE Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute And the prize goes to... Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. Date: Thurday, October 5, 2023 (13:00 CEST at the earliest) Prize: LITERATURE Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy And the prize goes to... Jon Fosse for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable. Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: CHEMISTRY Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Aleksey Yekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Pierre Agoostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter. Date: Monday, October 2, 2023 (11:30 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute And the prize goes to... Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. Date: Thursday, September 14, 2023 Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research And the winners are: Announced here