Hundreds or thousands of nominations are received for the Nobel Prize every year from members of academies, university professors, scientists, previous Nobel Prize laureates, members of parliamentary assemblies and more.
The Nobel Prize medal.
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9 March
The Future of Life
Nobel Prize laureates and other experts gather to discuss what it means to be human, now and in the years to come.
This year’s Nobel Prize announcements will take place 6–13 October. All announcements will be streamed live here on nobelprize.org.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2004
A defender of the Earth
Wangari Maathai was the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She founded the Green Belt Movement which led to the planting of over 50 million trees in Africa. Maathai also played an active part in the struggle for democracy in Kenya.
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.
What does microRNA do?
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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”.
