What are the Nobel Prizes?
The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation, based in Stockholm, Sweden. It is based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and entrepreneur.
Nobel Prize Winners 2022
The 2022 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to the following individuals or organizations.
Medicine
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was attributed this Monday to the Swedish Svante Pääbo, 67, for the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome and the creation of paleogenomics.
“By revealing the genetic differences that distinguish all living humans from the extinct hominins, their discoveries have laid the groundwork for exploration of what makes us humans unique,” the jury said.
Physical
The Nobel Prize in Physics it was awarded on Tuesday to the Frenchman Alain Aspect, the American John Clauser and the Austrian Anton Zeilinger, three pioneers of the revolutionary mechanisms of quantum physics.
The trio of septuagenarians were honored for their discoveries of “quantum entanglement,” a mechanism in which two quantum particles are perfectly correlated, regardless of the distance between them, the jury announced in a statement.
Chemistry
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry it was awarded on Wednesday to the Danish Morten Meldal, and to the Americans Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless – who already has an award – for laying the foundations for a more functional form of the scientific discipline.
The trio was recognized “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry,” the jury said in its decision.
Literature
The jury for the Nobel Prize in Literature announced the award for French writer Annie Ernaux, known for her novels about class and gender based on her personal experience.
The 82-year-old writer was rewarded for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she discovers the roots, distances and collective restrictions of personal memory,” the jury explained.
#InPhotos| Meet the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize
2022 Nobel Prize in Medicine
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2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
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2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
Quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger, Nobel laureate in Physics, at the presentation of a new telescope at the Institute for Quantum Optics in Vienna, Austria.
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2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
The scientist John Clauser, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, leaves his house to attend to the reporters who await his reaction after announcing his award.
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2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Carolyn Bertozzi, the 2022 Nobel laureate in chemistry, was the only woman awarded in the scientific categories this year.
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2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The American chemist says her life as a researcher has been full of “all kinds of crazy things”, but what she really does is “chemistry in cells and in people”.
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2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Mortel Medal, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, smiles at the press after learning of the award, in Oslo, Norway.
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2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The trio completed with the American Barry Shrapless was recognized “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry,” the jury said in its decision.
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2022 Nobel Prize for Literature
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2022 Nobel Prize for Literature
The 82-year-old writer was rewarded for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she discovers the roots, distances and collective restrictions of personal memory,” the jury explained.
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2022 Nobel Prize for Literature
“I consider that it is a great honor for me and for me it is at the same time a great responsibility to receive the Nobel Prize,” Ernaux told Swedish television, alluding to a need to “witness justice to the world.”
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Nobel Peace Prize
With a highly symbolic election in favor of “peaceful coexistence”, the Nobel Peace Prize awarded this Friday to a trio of representatives of civil society from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, three of the main actors in the Ukrainian conflict.
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Nobel Peace Prize
The first peace laureate was imprisoned Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, founding president of the Viasna (“Spring”) Center for the Defense of Human Rights, imprisoned following the 2020 mass demonstrations against the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko, deemed fraudulent by countries Westerners.
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Nobel Peace Prize
The recognized Russian NGO is Memorial, the largest human rights organization in Russia. The Russian Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of the group’s central structure, called Memorial International, in December 2021.
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Nobel Peace Prize
“This award gives moral strength […] to all Russian human rights activists,” Memorial International president Ian Rachinski told reporters.
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Nobel Peace Prize
The NGO Center for Civil Liberties, which documents war crimes attributed to Russian forces, became the first Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Ukraine, an award shared with two winners from Russia and Belarus.
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Nobel Peace Prize
The NGO launched an international campaign to demand the release of Ukrainian prisoners victims of arbitrary detention by Russians and pro-Russian separatists.
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Nobel Prize in Economics
Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences Douglas Diamond poses for a portrait in the foyer of his home in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., October 10, 2022.
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Nobel Prize in Economics
Ben Bernanke, one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Peace
The Nobel Peace Prize distinguished this Friday a trio of representatives of civil society from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, three of the main actors in the Ukrainian conflict.
The award was given to imprisoned Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian NGO Memorial —whose dissolution was ordered by the Russian authorities— and the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine.
Economy
Three US experts, including former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, won on Monday the Nobel Prize in Economics for their contributions to explaining the role of banks in the economy, especially during financial crises.
Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig were honored for having “significantly improved our understanding of the role of banks in the economy, particularly during financial crises, as well as how to regulate financial markets,” the jury said.
“His analyzes have been of great practical importance in regulating financial markets and in coping with crises,” added the award committee.
How much money do the winners receive?
Each award consists of a medal, a personal diploma and a cash prize. The amount of the Nobel prize for 2022 will be 10 million Swedish kronor ($921,000) for each award category.
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The winners of the 2022 Nobel Prizes