2020 Nobel Prize Announcements <Previous Next>

The 2020 Nobel Prizes in Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Peace, Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine 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: Monday, October 12, 2020 (11:45 CEST at the earliest) Prize: ECONOMICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats Date: Friday, October 9, 2020 (11:00 a.m. CEST) Prize: PEACE Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute And the prize goes to... World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict. Date: Thurday, October 8, 2020 (13:00 CEST at the earliest) Prize: LITERATURE Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy And the prize goes to... Louise Glück for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal. Date: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: CHEMISTRY Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for the development of a method for genome editing. Date: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And one half of the the prize goes to... Roger Penrose for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy. Date: Monday, October 5, 2020 (11:30 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE Awarding institution: The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute And the prize goes to... Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus. Date: Thursday, September 17, 2020 (6:00 pm EDT) Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research And the winners are: Announced here