The Nobel Prize laureates for this year have been announced! 

Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier have been awarded the Nobel Physics Prize. They created a way to use short pulses of light to measure rapid processes in which electrons move and change energy, giving humanity new tools to explore the world of electrons. 

Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov have been awarded the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the development of quantum dots. These scientists each synthesized these independently of each other! They brought a huge innovation, as quantum dots are now used in computer screens, LEDs, and in biochemistry. 

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize for their discoveries that changed the understanding of how mRNA interacts with the immune system. 

This led to the unprecedented fast rate of vaccine development during the COVID-19 pandemic. These scientists helped almost everyone in the world. 

Jon Fosse has been awarded the Nobel Literature Prize. He has written many plays, novels, poems, essays, children’s books, and translations. His plays are among the most performed in the world, and he has also contributed a large amount to literature with his prose. 

Narges Mohammadi has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy for human rights and against the Iran government’s suppression of women. Her struggle for freedom came with many costs. She had been arrested by the Iran regime 13 times, convicted 5 times, sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison, and given 154 lashes. She is still in prison.

Claudia Goldin has been awarded the Nobel Economic Sciences Prize for her work in finding drivers of the gender gap. She created the first fully in depth and truthful account of women’s earnings and participation in the economy over several centuries, bringing a better understanding of why women are at a disadvantage in the labor market and how to help. 

Cites

https://www.nobelprize.org