For over a century the Nobel Prizes have been the pinnacle of academic success. From science and literature to peace and humanism, here is the list of the Nobel laureates for 2024.
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun
For the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation
Image: molbio.massgeneral.org; UmassChanMedical school
John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton
For foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks
Images: NobelPrize.org; Johnny Guatto/University of Toronto
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper
David Barker for computational protein design; Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for protein structure prediction
Images: ipd.uw.edu; deepmind.google
Han Kang
For her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life
Image: han-kang.net
Nihon Hidankyo
For its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again
Daron Acemoglu (left), Simon Johnson (right) and James Robinson (top)
For studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity
Images: piie.com;economics.mit.edu; kmu.gov.ua
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