From poetic prose that confronts historical traumas to achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. From predicting proteins’ complex structures to training artificial neural networks using physics. From microRNA to new insights into how institutions affect prosperity.
This year’s laureates used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 is about proteins, life’s ingenious chemical tools.
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered microRNA, a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regulation.
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.”
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.
This year’s laureates have provided new insights into why there are such vast differences in prosperity between nations.
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Nobel Week 2024 takes place on 6–12 December in Stockholm and Oslo. Many of the events will be streamed and possible to follow online.
Nobel Prize Dialogue brings together minds from science and beyond, all gathering to discuss and explore the future of decision-making. This event featured a number of Nobel Prize laureates together with other regional and international experts.
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Swedish soprano Malin Byström and the conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Petr Popelka, will perform at this year’s Nobel Prize Concert at Konserthuset Stockholm. The programme includes the final scene from the Richard Strauss opera Salome and will be performed together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Malin Byström.
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The Nobel Prize Museum is displaying a large selection of items from its collection of artefacts from Nobel Prize laureates.
The Nobel Peace Prize medal is shown in all its glory in the Medal Chamber. Here, visitors can experience the world’s foremost symbol of peace.
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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”.
Endocrinologist Andrew V. Schally died on 17 October 2024. He was awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain”.
Tsung Dao Lee passed away on 4 August, age 97. He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for his “penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles.”
J. Robin Warren passed away on 23 July 2024. He was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease
