Nobel Prize Winners of 2022

Carolyn R. Bertozzi - Female - 55 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry

Affiliation: Stanford University - USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute - USA

Morten Meldal - Male - 68 years

Birth country: Denmark

Motivation: for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry

Affiliation: University of Copenhagen - Denmark

K. Barry Sharpless - Male - 81 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry

Affiliation: Scripps Research - USA

Ben S. Bernanke - Male - 57 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for research on banks and financial crises

Affiliation: The Brookings Institution - USA

Douglas W. Diamond - Male - 57 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for research on banks and financial crises

Affiliation: University of Chicago - USA

Philip H. Dybvig - Male - 56 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for research on banks and financial crises

Affiliation: Washington University - USA

Annie Ernaux - Female - 82 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory

Svante Pääbo - Male - 67 years

Birth country: Sweden

Motivation: for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution

Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology - Germany; Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology - Japan

Ales Bialiatski - Male - 60 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: The Peace Prize laureates represent civil society in their home countries. They have for many years promoted the right to criticise power and protect the fundamental rights of citizens. They have made an outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power. Together they demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace and democracy.

Alain Aspect - Male - 75 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science

Affiliation: Institut d’Optique Graduate School – Université Paris-Saclay - France; École Polytechnique - France

John F. Clauser - Male - 79 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science

Affiliation: J.F. Clauser & Assoc. - USA

Anton Zeilinger - Male - 77 years

Birth country: Austria

Motivation: for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science

Affiliation: University of Vienna - Austria; Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences - Austria