2024 Nobel Prize Announcements <Previous

The 2024 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 14, 2024 (11:45 CEST at the earliest) Prize: ECONOMICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity. Date: Friday, October 11, 2024 (11:00 a.m. CEST) Prize: PEACE Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute And the prize goes to... 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. Date: Thurday, October 10, 2024 (13:00 CEST at the earliest) Prize: LITERATURE Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy And the prize goes to... Han Kang for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life. Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2024 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: CHEMISTRY Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... David Baker for computational protein design Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for protein structure prediction. Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2024 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. Date: Monday, October 7, 2024 (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... Victor Ambros and Gray Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. Date: Thursday, September 12, 2024 Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research And the winners are: Announced here