2013 Nobel Prize Announcements <Prev Next>

The 2013 Nobel Prizes in Peace, Literature, Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel as well as the Ig-Nobel Prizes have been announced!

While you're here, why not also read about past winners.

N.B. The time of the announcement is given in Stockholm time (Central European Time); subtract 6 hours to get the US Eastern Daylight Time).

Date: Monday, October 15, 2013 (13:00 CEST at the earliest) Prize: ECONOMICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, Robert J. Shiller for their empirical analysis of asset prices. Date: Friday, October 11, 2013 (11:00 a.m. CEST) Prize: PEACE Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute And the prize go to... Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons. Date: Thursday, October 10, 2013 (13:00 p.m. CEST) Prize: LITERATURE Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy And the prize goes to... Alice Munro master of the contemporary short story. Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: CHEMISTRY Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems. Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize go to... François Englert, and Peter W. Higgs for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Date: Monday, October 7, 2013 (11:30 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute And the prize go to... James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C. Suedhof for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells. Date: Thursday, September 12, 2013 (7:30 pm EDT) Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research And the winners are: Announced here