The Nobel Prizes are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. He died in 1896. In his will, he bequeathed all of his "remaining realizable assets" to be used to establish five prizes which became known as "Nobel Prizes." Nobel Prizes were first awarded in 1901. Continue reading
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on microRNA. BBC - October 7, 2024
Their discoveries help explain how complex life emerged on Earth and how the human body is made up of a wide variety of different tissues
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to two scientists, John Hopfield (professor at Princeton University) and Geoffrey Hinton (professor at University of Toronto in Canada) for their work on artificial intelligence - machine learning with artificial neural networks BBC - October 8, 2024
Hinton, who has been dubbed the 'godfather' of artificial intelligence (AI), said he was flabbergasted to receive the prize. Machine learning is key to artificial intelligence as it develops how a computer can train itself to generate information. It drives a vast range of technology that we use today from how we search the internet to editing photographs on our phones.
Google DeepMind co-founder shares Nobel Chemistry Prize BBC - October 9, 2024
British computer scientist Professor Demis Hassabis has won a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for "revolutionary" work on proteins, the building blocks of life. Prof Hassabis, 48, co-founded the artificial intelligence company that became Google DeepMind. Professor John Jumper, 39, who worked with Prof Hassabis on the breakthrough, shares the award along with US-based Professor David Baker, 60. Prof Hassabis and Prof Jumper used artificial intelligence to predict the structures of almost all known proteins and created a tool called AlphaFold2. The Nobel committee called AlphaFold2 a "complete revolution", and the tool is now used for 200 million proteins worldwide.
South Korean author Han Kang has won the Nobel Prize in Literature. BBC - October 10, 2024
The 53-year-old fiction writer is a former winner of the Man Booker International Prize for her 2007 novel 'The Vegetarian'. At the ceremony she was praised for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.
Japanese atomic bomb survivors win Nobel Peace Prize BBC - October 11, 2024
Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. The organization, made up of survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was recognized by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for its efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson for their work on differences in prosperity between nations CNBC - October 14, 2024
U.S.based economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson were awarded the Nobel prize in economic sciences for work demonstrating the importance of societal institutions for a country's prosperity. The academics have helped show why societies with poor rule of law and institutions that exploit the population do not generate growth or change for the better.