2018 Nobel Prize Announcements <Prev Next>

The 2018 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: Thursday, October 10, 2019 (13:00 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: LITERATURE Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy And the prize goes to... Olga Tokarczuk for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life. Date: Monday, October 8, 2018 (11:45 CEST at the earliest) Prize: ECONOMICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... William D. Nordhaus for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis and Paul M. Romer for integrating technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis Date: Friday, October 5, 2018 (11:00 a.m. CEST) Prize: PEACE Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute And the prize go to... Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2018 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: CHEMISTRY Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Frances H. Arnold for the directed evolution of enzymes and George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter for the phage display of peptides and antibodies. Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize go to... Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou, and Donna Strickland for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics Date: Monday, October 1, 2018 (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 P. Allison, and Tasuku Honjo for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation. Date: Thursday, September 13, 2018 (6:00 pm EDT) Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research And the winners are: Announced here