Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Allison and Honjo showed how releasing the brakes on the immune system can help it attack cancer, leading to a new class of cancer drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors.

1 October 2018 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2017 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Thaler showed how human traits such as limited self-control shape economic decisions, and helped develop the idea of "nudges" to encourage better choices.

9 October 2017 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2017 Nobel Peace Prize

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a coalition of campaign groups, played a leading role in securing a United Nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons, agreed in July.

6 October 2017 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2017 Nobel Prize in Literature

The British novelist, born in Nagasaki and raised in Guildford, is best known for The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.

5 October 2017 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Cryo-electron microscopy freezes biological molecules so that their structure can be seen in fine detail.

4 October 2017 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2017 Nobel Prize in Physics

The LIGO detectors in the United States made the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015, ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein a century ago.

3 October 2017 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Working with fruit flies, the three Americans uncovered the genes that control the body clock, which regulates sleep, hormones and body temperature.

2 October 2017 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2016 Nobel Prize in Literature

The American singer-songwriter is the first musician to receive the literature prize, recognised for songs such as Blowin' in the Wind and Like a Rolling Stone.

13 October 2016 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2016 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Contract theory helps design agreements such as pay deals for executives and contracts for public services.

10 October 2016 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2016 Nobel Peace Prize

The Colombian president agreed a peace deal with the FARC rebels to end a war that has claimed more than 200,000 lives, although voters narrowly rejected it in a referendum days before the award.

7 October 2016 · Source: The Nobel Prize