Noble Prize 2023

Category

Winners

Achievement

Physiology or Medicine

Katalin Karikó (Hungary) and Drew Weissman (U.S)  

discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

Physics

Pierre Agostini (Tunisia), Ferenc Krausz (Hungary) and Anne L’Huillier (France)

experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter

Chemistry

Louis E. Brus (U.S), Alexei I. Ekimov (Russia) and Moungi G. Bawendi (France)

discovery and synthesis of quantum dots

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023

Claudia Goldin (U.S)

having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes

Literature

Jon Fosse (Norway)  

innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable

Peace

Narges Mohammadi (Iran)

fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all