2018 Nobel Prize Announcements

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Prize Announcements

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


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