2023 Nobel Prize Winners: The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden on October 5, 2023, and will be awarded on December 10, 2023. The prize was established by Alfred Nobel in accordance with his will.
List of Nobel Prize winners for 2023
| S. no | Name | Category |
| 1. |
Katalin Karikó Drew Weissman |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
| 2. |
Pierre Agostini Ferenc Krausz Anne L’Huillier |
Nobel Prize for Physics |
| 3. |
Moungi G. Bawendi Louis E. Bruce Alexey I. Ekimo |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| 4. |
Jon Fosse |
Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 5. |
Narges Mohammadi |
Nobel Peace Prize |
| 6. |
Claudia Goldin |
Nobel Prize for Economics |
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2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman will share the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine as a result of their discoveries about nucleoside base changes, which enabled the creation of an mRNA vaccine against COVID-19. This decision was made by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute.
Katalin Karikó: Katalin Karikó was born in 1955 in Szolnok, Hungary. In 1982, she graduated and received her doctorate from the University of Szeged, and from 1982 to 1985 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Szeged. She then conducted postdoctoral studies at Bethesda University of Health Sciences and Temple University in Philadelphia. She was later hired as an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, where she remained until 2013. At BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals, she later advanced to the positions of vice president and senior vice president. She is an adjunct professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 2021 and a professor at the University of Szeged from 2021.
Drew Weissman: American Drew Weissman was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1959. In 1987, he graduated from Boston University with a Ph.D. He completed his postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health after completing clinical training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School. Weissman started his research team in 1997 at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation and the Roberts Family Professor of Vaccine Research.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
Anne L’Huillier: Anne L’Huillier was born on August 16, 1958 in Paris, France. She won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for her experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light to study the dynamics of electrons in matter.
Pierre Agostini: Pierre Agostini is affiliated with Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. He also won the Nobel Prize for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light to study the dynamics of electrons in matter.
Ferenc Krausz: The Hungarian physicist was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light to study the dynamics of electrons in matter. He is currently affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexey I. Ekimov for their work on the discovery and development of quantum dots. These tiny particles, which have special qualities, now emit light from LED lights and television screens. They speed up chemical processes and can provide the surgeon with good illumination of the tumor tissue.
Nobel Prize for Literature 2023
The 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Jon Fosse. He received this award as motivation “for his innovative plays and prose that gives voice to the unspeakable”
Nobel Peace Prize 2023
Narges Mohammadi will receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 as a result of her efforts to fight for universal human rights and freedoms, as well as the oppression of women in Iran, according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Her brave fight cost her dearly personally.
Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
This year’s winner of the Economic Sciences Award, Claudia Goldin, provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labor market participation over the centuries. By searching archives and compiling and correcting historical data, Goldin was able to present new and often surprising facts.
Nobel Committee
The Nobel Committee for 2023 of the Swedish Academy consists of the following members:
|
Name |
Selected |
Position |
Profession |
|
Anders Olsson |
in 2008 |
Chairman of the commission |
Literary critic, literary historian |
|
Mats Malm |
2018 |
associate member permanent secretary |
Translator, literary historian, editor |
|
According to Wästberg |
in 1997 |
Member |
Novelist, journalist, poet, essayist |
|
Anne Swärd |
in 2019 |
Member |
Novelist |
|
Ellen Mattson |
in 2019 |
Member |
Novelist, essayist |
|
Steve Sem-Sandberg |
in 2021 |
Member |
Journalist, writer, translator |
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Every year, in the month of November, the Swedish Academy receives thousands of letters from all over the world recommending both famous and obscure authors for the Nobel Prize. Only qualified individuals may make such nominations, including members of the Swedish Academy and other academies, organizations and societies that are conceptually and functionally comparable to it, professors of literature and linguistics at universities and colleges, previous winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature and leaders of writers’ organizations who are qualified to serve as ambassadors of the literature and fine arts of their nations.
Source: Nobel Prize Organization (nobelprize.org)
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