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About Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology 2024

Co-Winners: Victor Ambros & Gary Ruvkun (American Scientists)

They are awarded for discovery of microRNA, which helps determine how cells develop and function

miscroRNA plays a key role in regulating gene activity.

Additional Information About Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023

Co-winners: Katalin Kariko (Hungary) & Drew Weissman (USA) 

For their work which helped develop Covid vaccines in early 2020

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Dmitry Muratov: the co-winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize  (also journalist) auctioned off his Nobel medal for a record $103.5 million to aid children displaced by the war in Ukraine in June 2022.

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About Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023

Co-winners: Katalin Kariko & Drew Weissman

Katalin Kariko belongs to Hungary

Drew Weissman belongs to USA

For their work which helped develop Covid vaccines in early 2020

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About Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023

Co-winners: Katalin Kariko & Drew Weissman

Katalin Kariko belongs to Hungary

Drew Weissman belongs to USA

For their work which helped develop Covid vaccines in early 2020

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The International Committee of the Red Cross was declared the winner of the Peace Prize both in 1917 and in 1944. 

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Award Fields (since 1901): Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace.

Added Field (1968): Economic Sciences (Memorial Prize).

Ceremony Locations:

Stockholm, Sweden: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Economic Sciences.

Oslo, Norway: Peace Prize.

Recipient Recognition: Laureates receive a gold medal, a diploma, and a monetary award from the Nobel Foundation.

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About Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023

Co-winners: Katalin Kariko & Drew Weissman

Katalin Kariko belongs to Hungary

Drew Weissman belongs to USA

For their work which helped develop Covid vaccines in early 2020

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Simon Johnson, James Robinson and Daron Acemoglu have been awarded 2024 Nobel Prize Economics.

Awarded for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.

Their book titled 'Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity'  was published in 2023

Both Simon Johnson and James Robinson are British-Americans.

Daron Acemoglu is a Turkish-American.

Additional Information:

Nobel Prize in Economics 2023 was awarded to Claudia Goldin

She is an American economic historian

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Orhan Pamuk is a Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and academic, born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1952.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006.

It is known for his works exploring Turkish history, culture, and identity.

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About Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

Co-winners: John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

Award given by: Royal Swedish Academy

Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist

Geoffrey Hinton is called the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI)

John Hopfield is an American scientist

Additional Information:

They are awarded Nobel Prize for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks

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