2019 Nobel Prize Announcements <Prev Next>

The 2019 Nobel Prizes in Peace, Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine and Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel prize as well as 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 14, 2019 (11:45 CEST at the earliest) Prize: ECONOMICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. Date: Friday, October 11, 2019 (11:00 a.m. CEST) Prize: PEACE Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute And the prize goes to... Abiy Ahmed Ali for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea. Date: Thursday, October 10, 2019 (13:00 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: LITERATURE Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy And the prize goes to... Peter Handke for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience. Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: CHEMISTRY Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And one half of the prize going to... James Peebles for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star Date: Monday, October 7, 2019 (11:30 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute And the prize goes to... William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. Date: Thursday, September 12, 2019 (6:00 pm EDT) Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research And the winners are: Announced here