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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
“Peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold”
Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of a USA in which all citizens would be assessed in terms of their personal characteristics, not their skin colour. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1964 for his non-violent struggle for civil rights in the United States.
Watch and read his acceptance speech
Martin Luther King’s Nobel Prize lecture
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Watch and read his acceptance speech
Martin Luther King’s Nobel Prize lecture
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FAQ: the nomination process
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The first nomination for Martin Luther King Jr. arrived to the Norwegian Nobel Committee in 1963. Not until 2014, the nominators were revealed.
In his last will and testament, Alfred Nobel specifically designated the institutions responsible for the prizes he wished to be established.
Search among the names of the nominees and nominators, as well as additional information about the nominations 1901–1971.
Laureates against nuclear weapons
Nobel Prize laureates 2024
Nobel Prizes 2024
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This year’s laureates used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning.
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools.
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Physiology or medicine
Tiny RNAs with profound physiological importance
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered microRNA, a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regulation.
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Literature
Han Kang
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang, “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
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The grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize 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.
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Economic sciences
An explanation for why some countries are rich and others poor
This year’s laureates have provided new insights into why there are such vast differences in prosperity between nations.
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What does microRNA do?
How much do you know about the discoveries awarded the 2024 Nobel Prizes? Take our one-minute crash course on each of the prizes and find out how each have changed our world.
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Highlights from Nobel Week 2024
Nobel Prize laureates at the award ceremony in Stockholm.
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Simon Johnson receiving his prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2024.
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The Nobel Prize award ceremony 2024.
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Nobel Prize banquet table of honour
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Han Kang delivering her banquet speech.
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Daron Acemoglu delivering his banquet speech.
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Swedish artist Laleh performing at the Nobel Prize banquet 2024.
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The co-chairs of Nihon Hidankyo, Mr Terumi Tanaka, Mr Shigemitsu Tanaka and Mr Toshiyuki Mimaki, with the Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Jørgen Watne Frydnes.
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Demis Hassabis with his Nobel Prize medal and diploma at the Nobel Foundation.
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Han Kang on a school visit in Rinkeby, Stockholm.
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Nobel Week Lights 2024: ‘Leading Lights’ by Les Atelier BK is a luminous tribute to the brilliance of female pioneers. Drawing inspiration from extensive scientific and historical research, the piece is a grand celebration of their groundbreaking contributions to humanity.
Photo: Benoît Derrier. Artist: Les Atelier BK
Han Kang visited Swedish author Astrid Lindgren’s apartment in central Stockholm.
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Soprano Malin Byström, conductor Petr Popelka and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra performed at the Nobel Prize Concert 2024.
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Han Kang meeting people after her literature lecture at the Swedish Academy on 7 December.
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John J. Hopfield delivering his Nobel Prize lecture in physics on 8 December 2024 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University.
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John Jumper delivering his Nobel Prize lecture in chemistry on 8 December 2024 at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University.
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Nobel Prize lecture at Karolinska Institutet by Gary Ruvkun, Nobel Prize laureate in physiology or medicine 2024.
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Like many laureates before him, physics laureate Geoffrey Hinton signed a chair at the laureates’ get together at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2024.
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Victor Ambros talking to a student after his Nobel Prize lecture at Karolinska Institutet.
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Economic sciences laureate James A. Robinson with his signed chair at the Nobel Prize Museum on 6 December 2024.
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David Baker in front of a dress inspired by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, made by Jane Elliotte Svahn and Alvaro Sanchez, and shown in the exhibition ‘Nobel Creations 2024’ at the Nobel Prize Museum.
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Eight of the 2024 laureates assembled at the Nobel Prize Museum, 6 December 2024. Back row: Victor Ambros, Han Kang, David Baker and Demis Hassabis. Front row: James A. Robinson, Simon Johnson, John Jumper and Gary Ruvkun.
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Chemistry laureate Demis Hassabis arriving at the laureates’ get together at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2024.
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Nobel Prize award ceremony 2024
Watch Nobel Minds
Watch six of the 2024 laureates talk about their research and careers in a unique roundtable discussion, Nobel Minds, moderated by BBC’s Zeinab Badawi.
Nobel Minds 2024.
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Nobel Prize lecture in literature
Nobel Prize lectures
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Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun.
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John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton.
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David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper.
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James A. Robinson, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson.
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Terumi Tanaka from Nihon Hidankyo.
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Nobel Week Dialogue
In the 2024 Nobel Week Dialogue: The Future of Health, Nobel Prize laureates and other experts gathered to discuss and envision our future. They explored ground-breaking medical advancements, disease prevention strategies, and innovative ways to enhance our lives.
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In memoriam
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart passed away on 30 December 2024, aged 82. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines”.
Former US President Jimmy Carter passed away on 29 December 2024. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2002 “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development”.
Chemist Martin Karplus passed away on 28 December 2024, aged 94. He was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems”.
Physicist Leon N. Cooper passed away on 23 October 2024. He was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics “for their jointly developed theory of superconductivity, usually called the BCS-theory”.
