Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Machado is a leader of the democratic opposition in Venezuela, and has been living in hiding after the disputed presidential election of 2024.

10 October 2025 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2025 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Hungarian writer is known for long, dark novels including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance, both made into films by the director Béla Tarr.

9 October 2025 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Metal-organic frameworks are materials full of tiny holes that can capture gases such as carbon dioxide or pull water from desert air.

8 October 2025 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

In experiments in the 1980s, the three physicists showed that quantum effects can be seen in an electrical circuit large enough to hold in the hand.

7 October 2025 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The three scientists discovered regulatory T cells, the immune system's "security guards" that stop it attacking the body's own tissues.

6 October 2025 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

The three economists showed how institutions set up in colonial times help explain why some countries are rich and others poor.

14 October 2024 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2024 Nobel Peace Prize

Nihon Hidankyo is a movement of survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, known as hibakusha, who have campaigned against nuclear weapons.

11 October 2024 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

The South Korean writer is best known for The Vegetarian, which won the International Booker Prize in 2016.

10 October 2024 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Baker designed entirely new proteins, while Hassabis and Jumper of Google DeepMind in London created AlphaFold, an AI model that predicts the shape of proteins.

9 October 2024 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2024 Nobel Prize in Physics

Hopfield and Hinton used tools from physics to develop the foundations of machine learning.

8 October 2024 · Source: The Nobel Prize