2024 - Economic Sciences
Daron Acemoglu - Male - 57 years
Birth country: Turkey
Motivation: for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA
Simon Johnson - Male - 61 years
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA
James A. Robinson - Male - 64 years
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity
Affiliation: University of Chicago - USA
2024 - Literature
Han Kang - Female - 53 years
Birth country: South Korea
Motivation: for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life
2024 - Medicine
Victor Ambros - Male - 70 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation
Affiliation: UMass Chan Medical School - USA
Gary Ruvkun - Male - 72 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation
Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital - USA; Harvard Medical School - USA
2024 - Peace
Organization: Nihon Hidankyo
Motivation: for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again
2024 - Physics
John J. Hopfield - Male - 91 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks
Affiliation: Princeton University - USA
Geoffrey E. Hinton - Male - 76 years
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks
Affiliation: University of Toronto - Canada
