2024 Nobel Prize Winners: Full List of Pioneers Shaping Science, Society, Culture, and Peace. Nobel Prize 2024: A Complete List of the Year’s Distinguished Laureates Honoring Innovation, Literature, Global Peace and Celebrating Groundbreaking Discoveries and Contributions to the World.
When the inventor, entrepreneur and businessman Alfred Nobel died, his will stated that his fortune was to be used to reward “those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.” Nobel’s prize would reward outstanding efforts in the fields that he was most involved in during his lifetime: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace.
After his death, a long process began to realise his vision and the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901. In 1969, a new prize was established – the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Its addition was an exception, to celebrate the tercentenary of Sweden’s central bank.
In October every year the new Nobel Prizes and laureates are announced.
2024 Nobel Prize Winners Full List
| Field | Winner | Contribution |
| Nobel Prize 2024 in Physics | John Hopefield and Geoffrey Hinton | For foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks |
| Nobel Prize 2024 in Chemistry | David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper | They successfully cracked the code for proteins amazing structures |
| Nobel Prize 2024 in Physiology or Medicine | Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun | For “the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation |
| Nobel Prize 2024 in Literature | Han Kang | For her intense poetic prose |
| Nobel Prize 2024 in Peace | Nihon Hidankyo | For its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony |
| Nobel Prize 2024 in Economics | Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and, James Robinson | For studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity. |