The prestigious Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo (the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers) “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.”
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.
On Thursday, South Korean author Han Kang was awarded the literature award “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences will be awarded on 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.
