Nobel Prize

Geoffrey Hinton was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on machine learning with artificial neural networks.

Hanna Stjärne, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation since 2025, is a prominent Swedish journalist and media executive. She has led Sveriges Radio, Upsala Nya Tidning, and SVT, focusing on digitalisation, Swedish content, and modernising public service.

Eva Olsson received her PhD from Chalmers. She was a postdoc at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights (New York, USA), a faculty at Chalmers, a full professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, and is currently a full professor at Chalmers.

Toshi H. Arimura is a professor of economics at Waseda University. Before joining Waseda, Arimura was a professor at Sophia University, a visiting scholar with George Mason University, and Resources for the Future as an Abe Fellow.

Mutsuko Hatano’s main research fields are quantum sensing and power electronics based on wide-gap semiconductors, and semiconductor physics and devices. She is a fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics and a senior member of IEEE, and was general chair of Quantum Innovation 2023.

Tsuyoshi Sugino is the president of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Sugino previously held key senior positions at the ministry of education, culture, sports, science and technology (MEXT), including director-general of the Research Promotion Bureau (2020-2021).

The new Nobel Peace Prize exhibition A Message to Humanity was officially opened on 11 December by representatives from this year’s laureate, . The exhibition, which shows the humanitarian consequences of the use of nuclear weapons, opens to the public today, December 12, at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. “Open,” said Terumi Tanaka, Shigemitsu…

Jørgen Watne Frydnes delivering the presentation speech for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize at the Oslo City Hall, Norway, 10 December 2024. English Copyright © The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 2024.General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language. Publication in periodicals or books, or in digital or electronic forms, otherwise than in…

This year’s divertissement will be a swirling mix of music and dance. Three independent stories will celebrate the power of inspiration and the winding path that leads us humans to development and progress. Laleh will perform newly composed music together with dancers from BASE23 and solo musicians. The divertissement will also include newly composed music…

A new duo will be cooking for the laureates at the 2024 Nobel Prize banquet. At the Nobel Foundation’s press conference today, Jessie Sommarström and Frida Bäcke are talking about why it is important to choose the right ingredients and about the role of food for the climate and public health. Jessie Sommarström will be…