2024 Nobel Prize winners

[Sylvia]

All Nobel Prizes 2024

www.nobelprize.org

Physics (Oct. 8, 2024): John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”

Chemistry (Oct. 9): David Baker “for computational protein design” and Demis Hassabis & John Jumper “for protein structure prediction”

Medicine (Oct. 10): Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”

Literature (today): South Korean author Han Kang [Han is her surname/family name] “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.

Peace (Oct. 12): TBA

Economic Sciences (Oct. 15): TBA

 

[On My Own]

Machine learning in Physics, and Demis Hassabis being the CEO of DeepMind. It's everywhere!

Expect 100 articles about how AI is taking over everyday life soon.

 

[allezfred]

Nobel Peace Prize won appropriately given the current geopolitical climate won by Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo, a group made up of survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings.

Nobel Peace Prize: Japanese atomic bomb survivors Nihon Hidankyo win - BBC News

Nihon Hidankyo, a group of survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is recognised for its work to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

www.bbc.com

Still haunted by my first visit to Hiroshima and the Peace Memorial Museum all these decades later.

 

[allezfred]

Literature (today): South Korean author Han Kang [Han is her surname/family name] “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”.

Han Kang declines press conference, refuses to celebrate award while people die in wars

Han Kang, the South Korean author behind unflinching and provocative tales that deftly explore the depths of human violence and its impact on identity, has clinched the 2024 Nobel ...

www.koreatimes.co.kr

 

[allezfred]

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