Nobel Prizes - 2024

 


Physics

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton: "For foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks."

They used physics to find patterns in information.


Chemistry

David Baker: "For computational protein design."

Demis Hassabis and John Jumper: "For protein structure prediction."

They cracked the code for proteins' amazing structures.


Physiology or Medicine

Victor Ambrose and Gary Ruvkun: "For the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation."

Tiny RNAs with profound physiological importance.


Literature

Han Kang: "For her immense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life."

Biobibliography


Peace

Nihon Hidankyo: "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."

The grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors...


Economics

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson: "For studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity"

They provided an explanation for why some countries are rich and others poor.



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