Nobel Prize 2024 Winners List, Name, Fields, Prize Money

The 2024 Nobel Prize announcement started from October 7, recognizing outstanding scientific, economic, literature, and peace contributions. The Nobel prize announcement began with the award for medicine or physiology on October 7. The Awards will be giving into 6 categories. Nobel Prize 2024 is to be announced from October 7th to 14th, 2024. 

Winner of Nobel Prize 2024 till 8th October 2024

Dates of Winner Award Category

About Nobel Prize

History

• The Nobel Prize was set up when businessman and entrepreneur Alfred Nobel died and left the majority of his fortune to the establishment of prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. 
• His will stated that the prizes should be awarded to “those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.” 

Who was Alfred Nobel?

• Alfred Nobel was an inventor, entrepreneur, scientist and businessman who also wrote poetry and drama. 
• His varied interests are reflected in the Nobel Prizes which he laid the foundation for in 1895 in his last will and testament.

Award History

• The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901 and they have been awarded annually since then. 
• There have been years in that time when the Nobel Prizes have not been awarded - mostly during World War I (1914–1918) and II (1939–1945).

Categories

• The Nobel Prize categories are physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace – these were laid out in the will of Alfred Nobel. 
• In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank Established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. 
• Sveriges Riksbank is the Swedish Central Bank.

Prize Money for Nobel Prize

• The Nobel Prize amount for 2024 is set at Swedish kronor (SEK) 11.0 million per full Nobel Prize.

Who selects the Nobel Prize laureates?

In his last will and testament, Alfred Nobel specifically designated the institutions responsible for the prizes he wished to be established.

• The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry
• Karolinska Institutet (now The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet) for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• The Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in Literature
• A committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Parliament (Storting) for the Nobel Peace Prize.
• The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was instituted in 1968, on the tercentenary of the bank.