Nobel Prize 2023 Winners List, Awards, Achievements, Fields

Nobel Prize Winners 2023

The Nobel Prize Winners 2023 are announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, and the prizes will be given on 10th December 2023. The announcement of the List of Nobel Prize Winners 2023 started on 2nd October 2023 and on 9th October 2023 Nobel Prize for Economics has been announced.

The Nobel Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in the world which honors an individual or an organization for their extraordinary achievements in Physics, Literature, Chemistry, Economics, Medicine, and Peace. This prize is named after Alfredo Nobel, who was the founder of this award. According to his will, this prize is given annually to the deserving individual who brings a change in the fields that are mentioned above.

Nobel Prize Winners 2023 List

This year, the List of Nobel Prize Winners has been announced for Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry. The winner’s name, category, and work have been mentioned in the table given below. The Nobel Prize announcements started on 2nd October 2023 and will continue till 9th October 2023. The Swedish Academy has started the live streaming of the announcements on nobelprize.org.  

Nobel Prize 2023 Medicine

This year the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023 (or Physiology) has been awarded to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for their pioneering work on mRNA vaccines which has played a vital role in fighting against COVID-19. It was their invention through which we were able to prevent and treat the disease and decrease the fear of the pandemic. The Nobel Laureates developed effective mRNA vaccines against the virus. Their discovery was critically acclaimed throughout the world which helped in avoiding one of the greatest threats to mankind.

Nobel Prize 2023 Physics

This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier for the experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter. The extraordinary achievement of the Nobel laureates in physics was exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules. They have also demonstrated a way to create a short pulse of light which can be used to measure the rapid process in which the electron moves or changes energy.

Nobel Prize 2023 Chemistry

This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexei I. Ekimov for their discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. Quantum Dots are nanoparticles that are so tiny that their size determines their properties. These components can now spread their light from LED lamps and televisions, which will be used to guide surgeons when they remove tumor tissues.

Nobel Prize 2023 Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 was announced on 5th October 2023 by the Swedish Academy, Borssalen, kallargrand. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Jon Fosse for his innovative plays and prose which gives voice to the unsayable. This award is given to the individual or organization who has produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction. The award is one of the five Nobel Prizes awarded since 1901 to an author from any country who fits into the critically acclaimed category.

Nobel Peace 2023 Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize 2023 was awarded to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all. her brave struggle has come with tremendous personal costs. The regime arrested her 13 times and convicted her five times and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison and 154 lashes.

Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences 2023

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics Sciences has been awarded to Claudia Goldin for having advanced our understanding of women’s labor market outcomes. She has provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labor market participation through the centuries. Claudia was born in New York, in 1946 and completed her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1972.

Nobel Prize 2023 Committee

The Nobel Prize Committee 2023 has been curated by the Swedish Academy and you can find more details from the table given below.

Nobel Prize Money 2023

This year, the Nobel Prize Money 2023 is 11 million Swedish Kronor (SEK), which is 986,000 US Dollars, and in Indian Rupees, it translates to 8.1 crore. The monetary award for the Nobel Prize is decided annually by the Nobel Foundation. The goal of the foundation is to create a balance with the prize money to ensure that it remains substantial to be a significant incentive for the Nobel Laureates.