2015 Nobel Prize Announcements

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Prize Announcements

The 2015 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 12, 2015 (13:00 CEST at the earliest)
    Prize: ECONOMICS
    Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    And the prize goes to...

    Angus Deaton
    for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare.


    Date: Friday, October 9, 2015 (11:00 a.m. CEST)
    Prize: PEACE
    Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute
    And the prize go to...

    National Dialogue Quartet
    for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011.


    Date: Thursday, October 8, 2015 (13:00 p.m. CEST)
    Prize: LITERATURE
    Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy
    And the prize goes to...

    Svetlana Alexievich
    for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time.


    Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest)
    Prize: CHEMISTRY
    Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    And the prize goes to...

    Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar
    for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.


    Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2015 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest)
    Prize: PHYSICS
    Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    And the prize go to...

    Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald
    for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.


    Date: Monday, October 5, 2015 (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...

    William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura
    for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites

    and

    Youyou Tu
    for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria


    Date: Thursday, September 18, 2015 (7:30 pm EDT)
    Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES
    Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research
    And the winners are:

    Announced here


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