2018 Nobel Prizes

The 2018 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.[1]

Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm.[2][3]

Prizes

Physics

Awardee(s)
Arthur Ashkin

(1922–2020)

American "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems" [4]
Gérard Mourou

(b. 1944)

French "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics", in particular "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses"
Donna Strickland

(b. 1959)

Canadian

Chemistry

Awardee(s)
Frances Arnold

(b. 1956)

American "for the directed evolution of enzymes" [5]
George Smith

(b. 1941)

"for the phage display of peptides and antibodies"
Sir Gregory Winter

(b. 1951)

British

Physiology or Medicine

Awardee(s)
James P. Allison

(b. 1948)

 United States "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation" [6]
Tasuku Honjo

(b. 1942)

 Japan

Literature

Main article: 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature
Awardee(s)
Olga Tokarczuk

(b. 1962)

 Poland "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life" [7]

Peace

Main article: 2018 Nobel Peace Prize
Awardee(s)
Denis Mukwege

(b. 1955)

 Democratic Republic of the Congo "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict." [8]
Nadia Murad

(b. 1993)

 Iraq

Economic Sciences

Awardee(s)
William Nordhaus

(b. 1941)

 United States "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis" [9]
Paul Romer

(b. 1955)

"for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis"

References

  1. ^ "All Nobel Prizes 2018". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  2. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2018". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  3. ^ Peluchetti, Nicola (2018-12-06). "Video - The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2018". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  4. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 4 May 2024. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  5. ^ Press Release: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 Archived 3 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2018". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Nobel Prize in Literature 2018". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 2020-06-01. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  8. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2018 - Press Release". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 2018-10-05. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
  9. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2018-10-08.