STOCKHOLM (AP) — All however one of many 2022 Nobel Prizes have now been introduced. Right here’s a have a look at which prizes have been introduced up to now, which is arising and what’s subsequent for the winners.
PEACE
This yr’s Nobel Peace Prize was shared Friday by jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian group Heart for Civil Liberties. The Norwegian Nobel Committee mentioned the laureates “have made an excellent effort to doc battle crimes, human proper abuses and the abuse of energy. Collectively they show the importance of civil society for peace and democracy.” The prize was seen as a powerful rebuke to the authoritarian rule of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
LITERATURE
The Swedish Academy on Thursday gave the Nobel Prize in literature to French author Annie Ernaux for “the braveness and medical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of private reminiscence.” Ernaux, 82, has written greater than 20 books, most of them very brief, chronicling occasions in her life and the lives of these round her. Her work paints uncompromising portraits of sexual encounters, abortion, sickness and the deaths of her mother and father.
CHEMISTRY
The Nobel Prize in chemistry was collectively awarded on Wednesday to Individuals Carolyn R. Bertozzi and Ok. Barry Sharpless and Danish scientist Morten Meldal for his or her work on click on chemistry, a discipline of analysis that can be utilized to design higher medicines. Sharpless is a repeat winner: He received the chemistry prize additionally in 2001.
PHYSICS
The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded Tuesday to Frenchman Alain Facet, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger. The trio shared the prize for locating the best way that unseen particles, often known as photons, might be linked, or “entangled” with one another, even when they’re separated by giant distances.
MEDICINE
The drugs or physiology prize is by custom the primary Nobel to be introduced. This yr’s award went to Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for discoveries about human evolution achieved by way of analyses of the DNA of Neanderthals and different historical kin of contemporary people.
WHAT’S NEXT?
The ultimate announcement comes Monday with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Financial Sciences, which isn’t an unique Nobel Prize however was established by the Swedish central financial institution in 1968.
WHAT DO THE WINNERS RECEIVE?
Nobel Prize laureates are invited to obtain their awards at prize ceremonies held on Dec. 10, the anniversary of award founder Alfred Nobel’s dying in 1896. The prize features a diploma, a gold medal and a financial award of 10 million Swedish kronor (about $900,000). The Nobel Peace Prize is handed out within the Norwegian capital, Oslo, whereas the opposite awards are introduced in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, according to Nobel’s needs.
