Nobel Prize 2025 Laureates Announced This Week
Translated & summarized from NEWSru Israel by baba
Nobel Prize announcements for 2025 will occur between October 5th and 12th, with prize money increased to 12 million Swedish kronor. Laureates were recognized across medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and economics.
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- Nobel Prize announcements for 2025 will be made from October 5-12.
- Prize money increased to 12 million Swedish kronor ($1.22 million).
- 2025 marks the 125th anniversary of the first Nobel Prizes.
- Laureates honored in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and economics.
- Joel Mokyr, a laureate in economics, also teaches at Tel Aviv University.
The announcements for the 2025 Nobel Prize laureates are scheduled to take place throughout the week of October 5th. The first announcement, for Physiology or Medicine, is set for Monday, October 5th. This will be followed by Physics on October 6th and Chemistry on October 7th. The Swedish Academy will reveal the Literature laureate on October 8th, and the Nobel Peace Prize winner will be announced in Oslo on October 9th. Finally, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the laureates for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, commonly known as the Nobel Prize in Economics, on October 12th. All announcements will be live-streamed on the official Nobel Prize website.
This year, the Nobel Foundation increased the prize money for each award from 11 million to 12 million Swedish kronor, approximately $1.22 million. This marks the first increase in the award sum since 2023. The year 2025 also marks the 125th anniversary of the first Nobel Prizes awarded in 1901.
Last year's laureates included Mary E. Brancou, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries concerning peripheral immunological tolerance in Physiology or Medicine. In Physics, John Martinis and Michel Devoret were recognized for their work on macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit. The Chemistry prize was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for their development of metal-organic frameworks, porous molecular structures with applications in carbon dioxide capture, gas storage, and water harvesting.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his "captivating and visionary work that, amidst apocalyptic horror, reaffirms the power of art." The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado for her "relentless work to advance the democratic rights of the people of Venezuela and her struggle for a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."
In Economic Sciences, Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt were honored for their work explaining economic growth driven by innovation. Mokyr received half the prize for identifying the prerequisites for sustainable growth through technological progress, while Aghion and Howitt shared the other half for their theory of sustainable growth via creative destruction. Mokyr, a professor at Northwestern University in the U.S., also holds a professorship at Tel Aviv University's Eitan Berglas School of Economics.