Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

MicroRNAs are tiny molecules that control how genes are used in the body.

7 October 2024 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2023 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Goldin used centuries of data to show how women's pay and employment have changed, and why a gap with men remains.

9 October 2023 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2023 Nobel Peace Prize

Mohammadi, a campaigner for women's rights, is serving a prison sentence in Tehran.

6 October 2023 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Norwegian writer is one of the most performed playwrights in the world, and his novels include the seven-part Septology.

5 October 2023 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Quantum dots are tiny particles whose colour depends on their size.

4 October 2023 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2023 Nobel Prize in Physics

An attosecond is a billionth of a billionth of a second.

3 October 2023 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Karikó and Weissman found how to change mRNA so that it does not trigger harmful inflammation, making possible the mRNA vaccines against Covid-19.

2 October 2023 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2022 Nobel Peace Prize

The prize honours a human rights advocate from Belarus, Ales Bialiatski, and human rights organisations in Russia and Ukraine, Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties.

7 October 2022 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2022 Nobel Prize in Literature

The French writer draws on her own life and on the experience of social class in books such as The Years.

6 October 2022 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Click chemistry allows molecules to be snapped together quickly and efficiently.

5 October 2022 · Source: The Nobel Prize