Nobel Prize 2024

Why in the news?

• Recently the Nobel Prize for the year 2024 was announced
  • Nobel Prize for Medicine - Victor Ambrose and Gary Ruvkun
  • Nobel Prize for Chemistry - David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper
  • Nobel Prize for Physics - Geoffrey E Hinton and John J Hopfield
  • Nobel Prize for Economics - Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson
  • Nobel Prize for Literature - Han Kang
  • Nobel Prize for Peace - Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo
    

Nobel Prize:

• The Nobel Prizes are announced every year in the week beginning on the first Monday of October.
• The Nobel Prize for Peace is awarded in Oslo (Norway) while all other Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm (Sweden).
• Nobel Prize winners are selected by four institutions
  1. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences – Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences
  2. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet – Medical Sciences
  3. The Swedish Academy – Literature
  4. The Norwegian Nobel Committee – Peace Prize
• These awards are given every year on 10 December (the death anniversary of Alfred Nobel).