The 2023 Nobel Prizes, awarded in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and economics, were awarded at the ceremony held at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Yekimov for their work discovering quantum dots and how to make them.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman for their discoveries of nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
LITERATURE AWARD WON TO NORWEGIAN WRITER
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Norwegian writer Jon Fosse for his innovative plays and prose that say the unsayable. Fosse is recorded as the first Nobel Prize winner in Literature to write in Nynorsk, one of the two written language forms of Norwegian.
The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Claudia Goldin for her work on the place of women in the labor market.
THE PEACE AWARD WAS GIVEN TO IRANIAN MOHAMMADI
The Nobel Peace Prize was given to Iranian Narges Mohammadi last October, at a ceremony held in Oslo, the capital of Norway, for her fight for “human rights and freedoms against the oppression of women in Iran”.
Instead of Mohammadi, who was arrested 13 times by Iran, convicted 5 times, sentenced to 31 years in prison and is currently in prison, his award was delivered to his children Kiana and Ali Rahmani. (UAV)
