2021 Nobel Prize Announcements <Previous Next>

The 2021 Nobel Prizes in Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, Peace, Literature, 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 11, 2021 (11:45 CEST at the earliest) Prize: ECONOMICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... One half to... David Card for his empirical contributions to labour economics And the other half jointly to... Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships Date: Friday, October 8, 2021 (11:00 a.m. CEST) Prize: PEACE Awarding institution: The Norwegian Nobel Institute And the prize goes to... Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace Date: Thurday, October 7, 2021 (13:00 CEST at the earliest) Prize: LITERATURE Awarding institution: The Swedish Academy And the prize goes to... Abdulrazak Gurnah for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: CHEMISTRY Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis. Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 (11:45 a.m. CEST at the earliest) Prize: PHYSICS Awarding institution: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences And the prize goes to... One half jointly to... Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming And the other half to... Giorgio Parisi for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales. Date: Monday, October 4, 2021 (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... David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch Date: Thursday, September 9, 2021 Prize: IG NOBEL PRIZES Awarding institution: The Annals of Improbable Research And the winners are: Announced here