From this Monday until October 10, the Swedish and Norwegian academies will announce the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prizes. The prestigious prizes will be awarded at galas in Stockholm and Sweden in December.
These are the winners of all categories.
What are the Nobel Prizes?
The Nobel Prize is an international award administered by the Nobel Foundation, based in Stockholm, Sweden. It is based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish inventor and entrepreneur.
Nobel Prize Winners 2022
The 2022 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to the following individuals or organizations.
Medicine
was attributed this Monday to the Swedish Svante Pääbo, 67, for the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome and the creation of paleogenomics.
“By revealing the genetic differences that distinguish all living humans from the extinct hominins, their discoveries have laid the groundwork for exploration of what makes us humans unique,” the jury said.
Physical
it was awarded on Tuesday to the Frenchman Alain Aspect, the American John Clauser and the Austrian Anton Zeilinger, three pioneers of the revolutionary mechanisms of quantum physics.
The trio of septuagenarians were honored for their discoveries of “quantum entanglement,” a mechanism in which two quantum particles are perfectly correlated, regardless of the distance between them, the jury announced in a statement.
How much money do the winners receive?
Each award consists of a medal, a personal diploma and a cash prize. The amount of the Nobel prize for 2022 will be 10 million Swedish kronor ($921,000) for each award.
