2017 Nobel Prizes

The 2017 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)
Rainer Weiss

(b. 1932)

American "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves" [4]
Kip Thorne

(b. 1940)

Barry Barish

(b. 1936)

Chemistry

Awardee(s)
Jacques Dubochet

(b. 1942)

Swiss "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution" [5]
Joachim Frank

(b. 1940)

German

American[6]

Richard Henderson

(b. 1945)

British

Physiology or Medicine

Awardee(s)
Jeffrey C. Hall

(b. 1945)

 United States "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm" [7]
Michael Rosbash

(b. 1944)

Michael W. Young

(b. 1949)

Literature

Main article: 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature
Awardee(s)
Kazuo Ishiguro

(b. 1954)

 United Kingdom (born in Japan) "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world" [8]

Peace

Main article: 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
Awardee(s)
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

(founded 2007)

  Switzerland "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons." [9]

Economic Sciences

Awardee(s)
Richard Thaler

(b. 1945)

 United States "for his contributions to behavioural economics" [10]

References

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  2. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2017". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  3. ^ "Video - The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony 2017". NobelPrize.org. 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2024-12-09.
  4. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 5 April 2024. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  5. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 6 April 2018. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  6. ^ Frank, Joachim (2017), Curriculum Vitae Archived 9 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  7. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 October 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  8. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 – Press Release". Nobel Prize. Archived from the original on 5 October 2017. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  9. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2017 - Press Release". www.nobelprize.org. Archived from the original on 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2017-10-06.
  10. ^ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on 2017-10-02. Retrieved 2015-10-09.