Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, will announce the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2024 on Wednesday, October 9. This will be the 116th time Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded. Three scientists — Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Aleksey Yekimov — were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2023 “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has so far been awarded 115 times, and there has been a total of 194 recipients between 1901 and 2023. With Frederick Sanger and Barry Sharpless getting the prize twice, a total of 192 individuals have so far received the Nobel Chemistry Prize.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2024 will be announced on Wednesday, October 9, at 11:45 CEST (3:15 pm IST), according to the Nobel Prize website.
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How To Watch Chemistry Nobel Prize Announcement
The official Nobel Prize YouTube channel will live-stream the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2024. Besides, you can also track its official website and Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn handles.
Established by Alfred Nobel’s last will, the Nobel Prize has been awarded annually since 1901, recognising excellence in fields including Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Peace, and more recently Economic Sciences.
This year's Nobel prizes have been announced for physiology or medicine and physics.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is being awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their work on microRNA, while John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton are getting the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2024 for their "discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks".
The Nobel Foundation, created to manage the fund Alfred Nobel bequeathed his fortune to in his 1895 will, collaborates with different organisations to select and reward the laureates — the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for Physics and Chemistry, Karolinska Institute for Medicine, Swedish Academy for Literature, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee for Peace.