2016 Nobel Prize Announcements <Prev Next>

The 2016 Nobel Prizes in Literature, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Peace, Chemistry, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine 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 10, 2016 (11:45 CEST at the earliest) Prize: ECONOMICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström for their contributions to contract theory Date: Friday, October 7, 2016 (11:00 a.m. CEST) Prize: PEACE Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute And the prize go to... Juan Manuel Santos for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016 (13:00 p.m. CEST) Prize: LITERATURE Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy And the prize goes to... Bob Dylan for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: CHEMISTRY Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa for the design and synthesis of molecular machines. Date: Tuesday, October 4, 2016 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize go to... David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. Date: Monday, October 3, 2016 (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... Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy. Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016 (7:30 pm EDT) Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research And the winners are: Announced here