The2024 Nobel Prizes were awarded by theNobel Foundation, based inSweden. Six categories were awarded:Physics,Chemistry,Physiology or Medicine,Literature,Peace, andEconomic 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 inOslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day inStockholm.[1]
| Awardee(s) | ||||
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 | John Hopfield (b. 1933) |  American | "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enablemachine learning withartificial neural networks" | [2] |
.jpg) | Geoffrey Hinton (b. 1947) |  British
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| Awardee(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | David Baker (b. 1962) | American | "for computationalprotein design" | [3] |
.jpg) | Demis Hassabis (b. 1976) | British | “forprotein structure prediction” | |
.jpg) | John M. Jumper (b. 1985) | American | ||
| Awardee(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | Victor Ambros (b. 1953) | United States | "for the discovery ofmicroRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation" | [4] |
.jpg) | Gary Ruvkun (b. 1952) | |||
| Awardee(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | Han Kang (b. 1970) |  South Korea | "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life" | [5] |
| Awardee(s) | ||||
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| Nihon Hidankyo (founded 1956) |  Japan | "for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating throughwitness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again" | [6] | |
| Awardee(s) | ||||
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 | Daron Acemoglu (b. 1967) |  Turkey | "for studies of howinstitutions are formed and affect prosperity" | [7][8] |
.jpg) | Simon Johnson (b. 1963) | United Kingdom | ||
.jpg) | James A. Robinson (b. 1955) | United Kingdom | ||
From November 30 to December 8, theNobel Prize Museum set up citywide illuminations acrossOslo.[9] On December 8, as well, opera singerMalin Byström and conductorPetr Popelka performed at the Nobel Prize Concert.[10] The menu for theNobel Banquet, scheduled for December 10, was set by chefJessie Sommarström and pastry chef Frida Bäcke.[11]
Multiple media outlets, after the official announcement, noted the potential snub of Ambros' wifeRosalind Lee who was cited in the key publications highlighted by the Nobel Committee and was known to have contributed significantly in the development of the research of her husband, adding further to the continuous debate whether women are given the rightful acknowledgements they deserve in the field of science.[12][13] Victor Ambros expressed, “It would have been terrific if we could have shared” the prize.[14] She would have been the latest female Nobel laureate afterKatalin Karikó.[12]
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.[15]
The Atlantic called the Prize in Economic Sciences in 2024 to be one of the most controversial in recent history.[16] 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.[17]
