Literature Winners 2024

On Monday, Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the medicine prize. On Tuesday, two pioneers of artificial intelligence -- John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton of America and Canada -- won the physics prize for helping create the building blocks of machine learning.

A day later, three scientists – American David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of the UK – were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering powerful techniques to decode and even design novel proteins.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Peace and Economic Sciences on Friday and Monday. Winners receive a medal, a personal diploma, and a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($986,270).

This year’s Nobel Prize laureates will receive their awards at prize ceremonies on December 10, the anniversary of award founder Alfred Nobel’s death.