Nobel Prize 2022

Nobel Prize 2022: Nobel Prize is known as the most prestigious award was announced on 3rd October 2022 and will continue till 10th October 2022.

Key Facts:

In total, six prizes are awarded, each recognizing an individual’s or organization’s groundbreaking contribution in a specific field.
Prizes are given for physiology or medicine, physics, chemistry, economic science, literature and peace work.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee is responsible for nominating and finally selecting Nobel Laureate every year in accordance with the will of Alfred Nobel.
The first award ceremony for Nobel Prize was held in 1901, and since then it has been awarded 609 times to 975 individuals and organizations.

Nobel Prize Winners List 2022:

Nobel Peace Prize 2022:

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 has been awarded to human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, the Russian human rights organization Memorial, and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties.

Ales Bialiatski of Belarus:

Ales Bialiatski, who is in jail since 2021, is a vocal critic of Putin’s ally, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus.
In 1995, Bialiatski founded the Belarus human rights group Viasna (Spring).
He was first jailed in 2011 for evading taxes.
He was released in 2014, before being arrested again in 2021 during mass public protests in Minsk against elections that opposition activists said had kept Lukashenko in power the previous year.

Memorial group of Russia:

The Memorial group of Russia was established by human rights activists in the former Soviet Union during the Gorbachev years of glasnost and perestroika.
Among its founders were 1975 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Andrei Sakharov and Russian mathematician Svetlana Gannushkina.
Its objective was to record atrocities committed during the communist regime, especially under Joseph Stalin.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Memorial grew to become the largest human rights organisation in Russia.

Center for Civil Liberties, Ukraine:

Center for Civil Liberties is a Ukrainian rights organisation that is documenting alleged war crimes by Russia in Ukraine.
The Center was founded in Kyiv in 2007 with the aim of advancing human rights and democracy in Ukraine.

Nobel Prize in Literature 2022:

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the French author Annie Ernaux.
Ms. Ernaux, 82, is the 17th female writer to have won the prize since it was formed in 1901.
She was honoured “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory”.
One of the most nuanced, perceptive windows into the social life of contemporary France may be found in her more than 20 books, many of which have been required reading in French classrooms for decades.
The source for all of Ms. Ernaux’s work have come from her personal experiences and she is the pioneer of France’s “autofiction” genre, which gives narrative form to real-life experience.

Physiology or medicine:

Dr. Pääbo, a Swedish geneticist was awarded the year’s first prize, for physiology or medicine.
He has won this prestigious award for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.
He won for his work in retrieving genetic material from 40,000-year-old bones, producing a complete Neanderthal genome and initiating the field of ancient DNA studies.

Physics:

The prize for physics was shared by three men, Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, for their work in quantum technology.
Their experiments have “shaken the very foundation of how we interpret measurements.”

Chemistry:

Carolyn Bertozzi and Barry Sharpless from the United States and Morten Meldal from Denmark shared the award for chemistry for the development of click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry.
The three chemists have been working independently since 2000 to create functional molecules that have “led to a revolution in how chemists think about linking molecules together.
Dr. Bertozzi is the eighth woman to be awarded the prize, and Dr. Sharpless is the fifth scientist to be honored with two Nobels.

The award for economic science will be announced on Oct. 10.

What do the winners receive?

Laureates will receive a Nobel Prize diploma, a Nobel Prize medal and a document detailing the Nobel Prize amount, which this year amounts to 10 million Swedish krona, or about $900,000 in current exchange rates.

Where are the Nobel Prizes awarded?

The Nobel Prizes are awarded annually in October.

Nobel Prize Categories:

When the Noble Prize was announced by Alfred Noble, he categorized it into five categories in his will.
Later, in Alfred Noble’s memory, Economics was also added to the categories.

Now, six categories of Noble Prizes are awarded by the following organizations.