2024 Nobel Prizes
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The 2024 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. The winners in each category were announced from October 7 to October 14.
Nobel Week was scheduled to take place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm.{{Cite web |last=Rydén |first=Jenny |date=2024-10-31 |title=Nobel Week 2024 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremony/nobel-week-2024/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}
Prizes
= Physics =
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(b. 1933) |{{flagdeco|United States}} American | rowspan="2" |"for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks" | rowspan="2" |{{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241009192222/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release/ |archive-date=2024-10-09 |access-date=2024-10-08 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}} |
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(b. 1947) |{{flagdeco|United Kingdom}} British {{flagdeco|Canada}} Canadian |
= Chemistry =
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(b. 1962) |{{flagdeco|United States}} American |"for computational protein design" |
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(b. 1976) |{{flagdeco|United Kingdom}} British | rowspan="2" |“for protein structure prediction” |
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(b. 1985) |{{flagdeco|United States}} American |
= Physiology or Medicine =
= Literature =
{{Main page|2024 Nobel Prize in Literature}}
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(b. 1970) |{{flag|South Korea}} |"for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life" |
= Peace =
{{Main page|2024 Nobel Peace Prize}}
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(founded 1956) |{{Flag|Japan}} |"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" |
= Economic Sciences =
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(b. 1967) |{{flag|Turkey}} {{flag|United States}} | rowspan="3" |"for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity" | rowspan="3" |{{cite web |date=October 14, 2024 |title=The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2024/summary/ |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=October 14, 2024 |publisher=Nobel Foundation}}{{cite web |date=October 14, 2024 |title=The Prize in Economic Sciences 2024 |url=https://www.kva.se/en/news/the-prize-in-economic-sciences-2024/ |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=October 15, 2024 |website=www.kva.se |publisher=The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences}} |
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(b. 1963) |{{flag|United Kingdom}} {{flag|United States}} |
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(b. 1955) |{{flag|United Kingdom}} {{flag|United States}} |
Other events
File:The Nobel Peace Prize torchlight procession in Oslo, Norway 9.jpg
From November 30 to December 8, the Nobel Prize Museum set up citywide illuminations across Oslo.{{Cite web |title=Nobel Week Lights 2024 |url=https://www.routesnorth.com/event/nobel-week-lights-2024/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=Routes North |language=en-US}} On December 8, as well, opera singer Malin Byström and conductor Petr Popelka performed at the Nobel Prize Concert.{{Cite web |last=Rydén |first=Jenny |date=2024-09-17 |title=Nobel Prize Concert 2024 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel-prize-concert-2024/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}} The menu for the Nobel Banquet, scheduled for December 10, was set by chef Jessie Sommarström and pastry chef Frida Bäcke.{{Cite web |last=Rydén |first=Jenny |date=2024-12-05 |title=Nobel Prize banquet chef and pastry chef 2024 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/ceremony/banquet-chefs-2024/ |access-date=2024-12-09 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}
Controversies
= Physics =
Hinton's awarding of the Prize in Physics, for research on machine learning, provoked debates about the lack of recognition for computation and mathematics in the Nobel Foundation's categories. Some saw Hinton's work as crucial but not traditionally in line with physics.{{Cite news |last=Coulter |first=Martin |date=2024-10-10 |title=Google's Nobel prize winners stir debate over AI research |url=https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/googles-nobel-prize-winners-stir-debate-over-ai-research-2024-10-10/ |access-date=2024-12-08 |work=Reuters |language=en}}
= Economic Sciences =
The Atlantic called the Prize in Economic Sciences in 2024 to be one of the most controversial in recent history.{{Cite web |last=Taylor |first=Mark Zachary |date=2024-11-05 |title=The Most Controversial Nobel Prize in Recent Memory |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/democracy-acemoglu-nobel-prize/680522/ |access-date=2024-12-08 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}} Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson's work was criticized by historians and social scientists for inaccurately describing and analyzing history, neglecting the role of colonization in nation-building, and reflecting the insularity of economics as a discipline, among other critiques.{{Cite web |last=French |first=Howard W. |date=2024-12-12 |title=Why This Year's Nobel in Economics Is So Controversial |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/10/25/nobel-prize-economics-global-inequality-controversy-acemoglu-johnson-robinson/#:~:text=Epidemiology%20is%20not%20just%20a,10. |access-date=2024-12-08 |website=Foreign Policy |language=en-US}}