Every year the first week of October is an exciting time to celebrate those who are recognized to have contributed the most "to the benefit of mankind". Nobel prizes matter because they recognize the best of the best, and those who subjectively made incredible contributions to society. The most famous Nobel Prize winners you might recognize are listed here. Let them always inspire you to be your very best as a global citizen
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2024 Nobel Prize Winners:
The 2024 Nobel Prizes will be announced 7–14 October.
Announcements coming right up (to be updated as we find out)
Day 1 - Medicine/Physiology - Monday: “Victor Ambros (UMass) and Gary Ruvkun (Harvard) won this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine on Monday for their discovery of microRNA. Not to be confused with messenger RNA, microRNA is a tiny molecule that tells our cells how to behave. This year’s laureates figured out that microRNA plays a key role in gene regulation, which ensures that our cells perform their necessary functions. Understanding microRNA’s role is crucial for addressing the challenges that arise when it doesn’t work properly, including cancer and congenital hearing loss.” (Read NY Times Article)
Day 2 - Physics -Tuesday: "John J. Hopfield (Cornell University) and Geoffrey E. Hinton (University of Edinburgh) were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for discoveries that helped computers learn more in the way the human brain does, providing the building blocks for developments in artificial intelligence." Source
Day 5 - Nobel Peace Prize - Friday:
Day 6 - Economic Science - Monday:
The Nobel memorial prize in economics was awarded Monday to three economists who have studied why some countries are rich and others poor and have documented that freer, open societies are more likely to prosper. The winners are Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Simon Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and James A. Robinson, University of Chicago. (Read more)
Who were the Nobel Prize winners for 2023?
Medicine/Physiology - Day 1 - Monday Katalin Karikó (UPenn) and Drew Weissman (UPenn) “for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19” Source
Physics - Day 2 - Tuesday Pierre Agostini (Ohio State University), Ferenc Krausz (Max Plank, Germany) and Anne L’Huillier (Lund University, Sweden) “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/science/nobel-prize-physics.html
Chemistry Day 3 - Wednesday - Chemistry Nobel Prize today for Moungi G. Bawendi (MIT), Louis E. Brus (Columbia University) and Alexei Ekimov (Nanotech Technology, NY) “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”
Literature - Day 4 (Thursday) - Jon Fosse (Norwish) “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”
Nobel Peace Prize - Day 5 (Friday) - Narges Mohammadi (Iran) “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all”
Economic Sciences - Day 6 (Monday)
Claudia Goldin (Harvard) “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”
Year 2022
My favorites are the STEM-oriented winners - topics to celebrate this year - Neanderthal DNA (Medicine/Biology), Click Chemistry or Snapping molecules (Chemistry), Quantum Computing (Physics).
