2023 Nobel Prizes

The 2023 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences.^[1]

Nobel Week took place from December 5 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, exhibitions, concerts, and seminars, as well as the annual Nobel Week Lights Festival.^[2] The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm.^[3][4]

Prizes

The Nobel Prize in Physics

Main article: Nobel Prize in Physics

Awardee(s)
	Pierre Agostini (b. 1941)	French	"for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"	[5]
	Ferenc Krausz (b. 1962)	Hungarian
	Anne L'Huillier (b. 1958)	French Swedish

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Main article: Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Awardee(s)
	Moungi G. Bawendi (b. 1962)	American Tunisian French	"for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"	[6]
	Louis E. Brus (b. 1943)	American
	Aleksey Yekimov (b. 1945)	Russian

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Main article: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Awardee(s)
	Katalin Karikó (b. 1955)	Hungary	"for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19"	[7]
	Drew Weissman (b. 1959)	United States

The Nobel Prize in Literature

Main article: Nobel Prize in Literature

Awardee(s)
	Jon Fosse (b. 1959)	Norway	"his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable"	[8]

The Nobel Peace Prize

Main article: Nobel Peace Prize

Awardee(s)
	Narges Mohammadi (b. 1972)	Iran	"for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all"	[9]

The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Main article: Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Awardee(s)
	Claudia Goldin (b. 1946)	United States	"for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes"	[10]