Han Kang is a distinguished author in South Korea who has previously won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for "The Vegetarian". She comes from a literary background as her father was also a reputed novelist and began her career in 1993 with a short story collection.
Half the prize was awarded to Baker 'for computational protein design' while the other half was shared by Hassabis and Jumper "for protein structure prediction". Hassabis and Jumper created an artificial intelligence model that can predict virtually all 200 million proteins.
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for their foundational discoveries and inventions that enabled machine learning with artificial neural networks. Here are some interesting facts about them.
Earlier, scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its role in gene regulation.
The Nobel Assembly said that their discovery is “proving to be fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function.”
Goldin is an economics professor at Harvard University in the US and is the third woman to win the highly-coveted award. She is also the second woman to win the highly-coveted prize in economics.
Norwegian author Jon Fosse has been awarded The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
Nobel Prize for Chemistry: According to the statement released by the award-giving body, the rewards were given as these scientists were involved in the discovery and development of quantum dots which are mainly used in the LED lights.
The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award on Tuesday in Stockholm.
The Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine was Swedish scientist Svante Paabo, whose discoveries of human evolution provided key insights in functioning of the human immune system.
Nobel Prize 2022: Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger had shown that tiny particles can retain a connection with each other even when separated, a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement, that can be used for specialized computing and to encrypt informatio
Nobel Prize 2022: Carolyn R Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless were cited for their work on click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions, which are used to make cancer drugs, map DNA and create materials that are tailored to a specific purpose.
Nobel Prize 2022: According to Nobel's wishes, that prize should go to “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
Satyarthi was responding to a question on his vision for India when it celebrates its 100 years of independence in 2047.
Tutu, who previously survived tuberculosis, had undergone a surgery for prostate cancer in 1997. He was also hospitalised several times in recent years for a various ailments.
David Card of the University of California at Berkeley was awarded one half of the prize, while the other half was shared by Joshua Angrist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Guido Imbens from Stanford University.
Benjamin List of Germany and Scotland-born David W.C. MacMillan developed “asymmetric organocatalysis” — work that has already had a significant impact on pharmaceutical research, said Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The tool has also made chemistry “greener,” the judges said.
The Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to scientists from Japan, Germany and Italy.
The two scientists were cited for their discovery of receptors for temperature and touch.
The winners of this year's prizes in chemistry, literature, physics, medicine and economics, as well as the Nobel Peace Prize, are set to be announced between October 4 and October 11.
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