The noble prize committees have selected the recipients of the 2019 Nobel Prize from 7-14 Oct, in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances, keeping with the vision of Alfred Nobel have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind.
The recipients of annual Nobel Prizes are currently being announced by Swedish and Norwegian institutions. The award recognizes people in six areas: literature, physics, chemistry, peace, economics, and physiology and medicine.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry are awarded to John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries”. Through their work, they have created the right conditions for a wireless and fossil fuel-free society, and so brought the greatest benefit to humankind.
The Nobel Prize in Physics has also been awarded, going jointly to James Peebles, and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos.
William Kaelin Jr, Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for “his efforts to achieve international peace and co-operation”.
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo won the Nobel Prize in Economics, along with economist Michael Kremer, for their “experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”.
The Indian-born Mr. Banerjee and Ms. Duflo both are professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ms. Duflo is the second woman to be awarded a Nobel in economics.
Recipients of a Nobel Prize are granted 9m Swedish krona for their efforts, which at the time of writing converts to around £750,000.
Alongside the cash prize, winners receive a Nobel medal struck in 18-carat green gold plated with 24-carat gold, and weighing about 175 grams.
They also get a diploma directly from the hands of the King of Sweden, uniquely designed by the prize-awarding institutions for the laureates that receive them, and containing a picture and text in Swedish which states the name of the laureate and why they received the prize.
