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Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize
A set of annual international awards established by Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895. The Nobel Prize recognises achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
Members of the Nobel assembly announce the 2024 prize in economics, awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson, during a press conference in Stockholm in October. Photo: EPA-EFE
China's economic recovery

Nobel Prize-winning research gains traction in China to aid private sector

Hu Deping, son of a late former liberal leader, calls for rethink inspired by Nobel Prize-winning research and better protection for private enterprises.

Japan

Japan’s atomic bomb survivors receive Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo

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Iran

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner gets 3-week reprieve from prison after surgery

Bangladesh

My Take | ‘Worse than before’: Bangladesh’s turmoil grows as Yunus tries to restore order

Muhammad Yunus faces challenges in restoring order and reviving Bangladesh’s economy amid ethnic tensions and urgent calls for new elections.

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Muhammad Yunus, head of Bangladesh’s interim government, speaks to members of the media at the COP29 UN Climate Summit on November 13. Photo: AP
Books and literature

Literary but not literal, translator introduces Korean writers to the world

Award-winning translator Brother Anthony ponders Nobel Prize hype and the complexities of translating Korean poems and novels into English.

Science

Wilczek’s Multiverse | From physics to mind: where AI really came from

Despite grumbles in the scientific community, the Nobel Prize for Physics going to artificial intelligence pioneers was inspired.

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Science

China’s quantum computing leap risks stumbling into a talent-innovation void

China has a critical need for top hi-tech talent, but must overcome internal risks that hinder inspiration and ingenuity, leading academic says.

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The Zuchongzhi quantum computer. Like other sciences, China’s tech sector faces challenges from a lack of talent as well as its own “involution”. Photo: USTC
Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s student protesters demand president’s resignation

They are urging the president to resign over his comments that appeared to call into doubt former PM Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in August.

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South Korea

Nobel winner Han Kang’s book faces backlash from South Korean parents

More than 10,000 people have signed a petition demanding the book’s removal from school libraries.

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ICBMs

Opinion | Bomb survivors’ Nobel Prize a reminder to world on edge of nuclear war

As the world lurches towards nuclear conflict, we cannot afford to forget the catastrophe unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Books and literature

Han Kang wins Nobel Prize for Literature

South Korean author Han Kang has made history as the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

US-China relations

Chinese economists call for reforms of ‘critical’ system after Nobel Prize

The winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in economics published extensively on the relationships between political and economic institutions and wealth.

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Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson win 2024 Nobel Prize in economics

The award concludes a week of prizes including medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and the coveted peace prize.

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Japan

Hiroshima bomb survivors find sense of duty after Nobel win

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Japan

Nobel Prize an important reminder, Hiroshima locals say

With war in Ukraine and the Middle East, Hiroshima residents hope that the world never forgets the atomic bombing of 1945.

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Visitors pray in front of the Cenotaph for the Victims of the Atomic Bomb at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, the day after the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo) won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, in Hiroshima, Japan, on Saturday. Photo: Reuters
Japan

Japanese atomic bomb survivor group wins 2024 Nobel Peace Price

Nihon Hidankyo was awarded the prize for its decades of efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.

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South Korea

South Koreans welcome Nobel Literature Prize win

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Books and literature

South Korean author Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Literature Prize

Han was awarded the prize ‘for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’.

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Han Kang is the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize. Photo: Reuters
Medicine

Nobel chemistry prize awarded to scientist trio for protein structure work

Winners of this year’s Nobel will receive a cash prize and medal on December 10, followed by a lavish banquet in Stockholm city hall.

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Science

‘Godfather of AI’ among 2 scientists to win 2024 Nobel Prize in physics

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were given the honour for pioneering work in artificial intelligence development.

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Biomedicine: Science

Nobel Prize winners recognised for ‘groundbreaking’ microRNA discovery

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United States

Nobel Prize in medicine honours 2 Americans for discovery of microRNA

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun’s research revealed a new principle of gene regulation essential for multicellular organisms, including humans.

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Nobel Committee Secretary General Thomas Perlmann speaks to the media in front of a picture of this year’s laureates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkum during the announcement of the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Photo: AFP
United States

Jimmy Carter celebrates 100 years with tributes from Georgia to the White House

Despite living in hospice care, Carter remains engaged in politics, and is eager to vote for Vice-President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

Architecture and design

Finding the beauty in things: the profound lessons of physicist Frank Wilczek

Wilczek’s book, A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design, argues that beauty is the universe’s organising principle – and 2 Hong Kong architects were captivated

The Philippines

Philippine news site Rappler allowed to continue operating

Rappler’s co-founder Maria Ressa, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, was a vocal critic of former president Rodrigo Duterte and the deadly drug war he launched in 2016.

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, CEO of online news site Rappler. Ressa and Rappler have been fighting multiple court cases filed during former president Rodrigo Duterte’s administration. Photo: EPA-EFE
Bangladesh

Holding back tears, Yunus takes up Bangladesh top job

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US-China relations

Editorial | Tsung-Dao Lee laid the foundation for China’s rise in science

Nobel Prize-winning physicist, who died this month aged 97, advanced science education in China and promoted cooperation with the US.

Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s interim leader Yunus sworn in, seeks peace, prepares for elections

Yunus, awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for developing microcredit markets, has been a long-time opponent of former PM Sheikh Hasina.

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