AI won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry

The prize honors innovation at Google DeepMind and in academia. Three researchers share the award for using machine learning to predict proteins' 3D shapes and design the molecules from scratch.

Nobel physics prize 2024 won by AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won for discoveries that paved the way for the AI boom.

Three scientists win Nobel Prize in physics

The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Tuesday to three scientists who look at electrons in atoms during the tiniest of split seconds.

Pioneers of mRNA COVID vaccines win medicine Nobel

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to biochemist Katalin Karikó and immunologist Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Quantum scientists share Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize for Physics 2022 has been awarded to three physicists working on quantum mechanics - Alain Aspect from France, John Clauser from the United States and Anton Zeilinger from Austria.

Chemistry Nobel Prize Awarded to CRISPR-Cas9

The Prize in Chemistry went to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna. The two researchers achieved fame in 2012 when they developed the revolutionary tool CRISPR-Cas9 to make gene editing easier.

UN World Food Programme wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

The UN World Food Programme (WFP), which provides lifesaving food assistance to millions across the world - often in extremely dangerous and hard-to-access conditions - has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. 

Nobel Prize in physics honours black holes

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Sir Roger Penrose and to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their discovery of the supermassive black hole at the Center of the Milky Way.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2019

Half the prize went to cosmologist Jim Peebles, and the other half was awarded jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for the first discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star. 

Ethiopia's PM wins Nobel peace prize

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to a dynamic young African leader Abiy Ahmed, whose sweeping reforms and surprising embrace of a bitter rival have been praised as an inspiration to the continent.

Denis Mukwege, Nadia Murad win 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

The duo were awarded for their efforts to curb sexual violence as a weapon of war and for seeking justice for victims.

Nobel Prize in chemistry honors 'the power of evolution'

American Frances H. Arnold has won half of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work in changing how chemists produce new enzymes, sharing the prize with another George Smith, and Gregory Winter.

Nobel Prize in physics awarded for two advances in lasers

Three scientists from the United States, France and Canada are awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for the development of short, intense laser pulses and for optical tweezers that can grab tiny particles.

Treatments that cause the immune system to attack cancer earn a Nobel

The Nobel Prize Committee has honored two researchers for their role in pioneering a new avenue for cancer treatment, one where the therapy targets the immune system, which then goes on to attack the cancer.

Algorithm designer among those honored with the Chemistry Nobel

This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to a group of individuals who pushed the electron microscope to its very limit, figuring out how to use it to determine the position of every single atom in large, complex molecules.