List of Nobel Prize Winners in 2023

List of Nobel Prizes in 2023

The Nobel Prizes are prestigious awards presented annually to individuals and organisations for their achievements in various categories, including physiology, medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and economic sciences. Nobel Prizes in 2023 were awarded in the following categories: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. The awards are being presented to eleven individuals.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2023:

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023:

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023:

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023:

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2023:

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023:

List of Nobel Laureates in 2023

Eleven deserving personalities who excelled in the six different categories won the Nobel Prizes 2023.

The winners were announced between October 2nd and October 9th. The Nobel Week, featuring various events, took place from December 5th to December 12th. The award ceremonies and banquets were held on December 10th, with the Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo and the others in Stockholm.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 went to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Aleksey Yekimov for their discovery and development of quantum dots. They added colour to nanotechnology. 

Narges Mohammadi is a freedom fighter who is best known for her fight for freedom and against the mistreatment of Iranian women. In 2023, she won the Nobel Peace Prize for her commitment to promoting human rights and freedom for all, as well as her fight against the oppression of women in Iran. 

Claudia Goldin is a labour economist and economic historian at Harvard. She was the first to reveal the key drivers of the gender gap in labour markets and employment. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2023 in the Economic Sciences category in recognition of having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.

Here is a complete breakdown of “The Nobel Prize winners – 2023”.

The Nobel Laureates in Peace 2023:

Narges Mohammadi

• Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian journalist and human rights activist, received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2023
• Mohammadi is the only Iranian to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2023
• In the early 1990s, during her education in Physics at Imam Khomeini University in Qazvīn, she was heavily involved in civic engagement on campus, including founding a political group for students
• More than 20 years of fighting for women’s rights made her a symbol of freedom and a standard-bearer in the struggle against the Iranian  theocracy
• In 2003, she joined the Defenders of Human Rights Centre, founded by that year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Shirin Ebadi.

The Nobel Laureates in Physics 2023:

Pierre Agostini

• Pierre Agostini, a French physicist, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for his experiments with attosecond pulses of light
• He shared the prize with French Physicist Anne L'Huillier and Hungarian Physicist Ferenc Krausz
• Pierre Agostini was the recipient of several awards, including:
  • The Gustave Ribaud Prize for Physics from the French Academy of Sciences in 1995, The Joop Los Award from  Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) in the Netherlands in 2003
  • William F. Meggers Award from the Optical Society of America (OSA, now Optica) in 2007
  • The latter of which was for his investigations into the responses of atoms and molecules subjected to infrared laser pulses
•  He became an elected fellow of OSA in 2008. He has authored more than 120 publications.

Ferenc Krausz 

• Ferenc Krausz, a Hungarian-born Austrian Physicist, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for his experiments with attosecond pulses of light
• He shared the prize with French Physicists Pierre Agostini and Anne L’Huillier
• Krausz and his group were among the first to generate attosecond pulses and published their results in 2001. They were able to produce isolated pulses, each lasting 650 attoseconds. 

Anne L’Huillier

• Anne L. Huillier, a French physicist, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in physics for her experiments with attosecond pulses of light. She was the fifth woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Physics
• She shared the prize with French Physicist Pierre Agostini and Hungarian-born Austrian Physicist Ferenc Krausz
• In 1980, L’Huillier earned a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the École Normale Supérieure in Fontenay-aux-Roses, a suburb of Paris
• She then earned a graduate degree in theoretical Physics and mathematics from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie
• Although she initially studied both Mathematics and Physics, she ultimately focused on experimental Physics for her doctorate at CEA, where she successfully defended her thesis in 1986.

The Nobel Laureates in Literature 2023:

Jon Fosse:

• Jon Fosse is a Norwegian author of novels, plays, poems, children’s books, and essays
• Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable
• Jon Fosse also worked as an instructor and a translator
• The prolific wordsmith has written more than 40 plays and some 30 works of fiction in Nynorsk (New Norwegian)
• Although Fosse focused on writing plays for most of the 1990s and 2000s, he occasionally published prose
• Fosse also wrote:
  • The novella Morgon og kveld (2000; Morning and Evening), about a man who thinks back on his parents’ hope that he would become a fisherman
  • Det er Ales (2004; Aliss at the Fire), a similar narrative to A Summer’s Day, in which a woman relives the day 20 years prior when her husband set out on his boat and never returned.

The Nobel Laureates in Chemistry 2023:

Moungi Bawendi

• Moungi Bawendi, a French-born American Chemist, won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in producing quantum dots
• Bawendi shared the prize with Russian-born American Physicist Alexei Ekimov and American Physical Chemist Louis Brus
• In 1982, Bawendi earned a bachelor’s degree, and in 1983, he earned a master’s degree from Harvard University. Later attended the University of Chicago for graduate studies and received a Ph.D. degree in 1988
• In 1990, Bawendi accepted a position at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), where he later became a full professor of Chemistry
• The Bawendi method of making quantum dots was easy and thus led to an explosion of work in quantum dots
• Many applications today use quantum dots, such as QLED (quantum-dot light-emitting diode) screens, solar cells, and markers in biomedical imaging.

Louis Brus

• Louis Brus, an American Physical Chemist won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in producing quantum dots
• Brus shared the prize with Russian-born American physicist Alexei Ekimov and French-born American chemist Moungi Bawendi
• Brus attended Shawnee Mission North High School in Roeland Park, Kansas, before enrolling at Rice University in Houston
• In 1965, Brus completed his bachelor’s degree in chemical Physics in 1965 and later Ph.D. degree in chemical Physics in 1969
• Upon his graduation, he served as a science staff officer at the United States Naval Research Laboratory
• In 1973, he served as a research technician at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he began to experiment with nanocrystals and semiconducting materials.

Alexei Ekimov

• Alexei Ekimov, a Soviet-born American Physicist won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in producing quantum dots
• He shared the prize with American Chemist Louis Brus and French-born American Chemist Moungi Bawendi
• Ekimov graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Leningrad State University (now St Petersburg University) in 1967 
• He received a Ph.D. in Physics in 1974 from the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, also in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg)
• In 1981, Ekimov, along with Alexei A. Onushchenko, reported the discovery of quantum size effects in copper chloride nanocrystals in glass, a phenomenon now known as quantum dots
• In 1999, Ekimov became chief scientist at the American company Nanocrystals Technology

The Nobel Laureates in Economic Sciences 2023:

Claudia Goldin

• Claudia Goldin, an American economist won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Economics for “having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes” in the United States and other high-income countries
• Goldin was the only woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics alone and the third woman to win it overall.

The Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine 2023:

Katalin Karikó 

• Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian-born biochemist known for her pioneering research into RNA therapeutics, particularly the development of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines
• Katalin shared her award with Drew Weissman, an American physician and immunologist who is known for his contributions to RNA biology.
• Katalin’s investigation into the ability of mRNA nucleotides, which occurred in 2021 triggered immune responses against specific pathogens and greatly facilitated the development of the first mRNA vaccines—a breakthrough that, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic,
• Karikó and her colleague, American immunologist Drew Weissman, were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries related to mRNA nucleosides. This paved the way for the development of effective COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.

Drew Weissman

• Drew Weissman, an American immunologist whose groundbreaking research into RNA opened the path to the development of RNA therapeutics, most notably the generation of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines
• Drew Weissman shared her award with Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian-American biochemist, who is known for her specialisation in RNA mediated mechanisms, particularly in vitro-transcribed mRNA for protein replacement therapy 

• In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Weissman and his colleague, the Hungarian-born immunologist Katalin Karikó, discovered that mRNA can induce immune responses against specific disease-causing agents
• They further found that by introducing changes in mRNA nucleosides (the structural subunits of RNA), it was possible to modify these immune responses
• The team’s discoveries enabled the development in 2021 of the first mRNA vaccines, which were targeted against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic
• For their breakthrough work, Weissman and Karikó were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Timeline & Prize Details – 2023

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