2024 Nobel Prize Winners

Chemistry

David Baker

for computational protein design

Demis Hassabis

for protein structure prediction

John Jumper

for protein structure prediction

Economic Sciences

Daron Acemoglu

for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity

Simon Henry Roberts Johnson

for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity

James A. Robinson

for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity

Literature

Han Kang

for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life

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

Physics

John J. Hopfield

for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks

Geoffrey Hinton

for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks

Physiology or Medicine

Victor Ambros

for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation

Gary Ruvkun

for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation