Nobel Prize Winners of 2023

Moungi G. Bawendi - Male - 62 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA

Louis E. Brus - Male - 80 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots

Affiliation: Columbia University - USA

Aleksey Yekimov - Male - 78 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots

Affiliation: Nanocrystals Technology Inc. - USA

Claudia Goldin - Female - 77 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA

Jon Fosse - Male - 64 years

Birth country: Norway

Motivation: for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable

Katalin Karikó - Female - 68 years

Birth country: Hungary

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

Affiliation: Szeged University - Hungary; University of Pennsylvania - USA

Drew Weissman - Male - 64 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19

Affiliation: Penn Institute for RNA Innovations, University of Pennsylvania - USA

Narges Mohammadi - Female - 51 years

Birth country: Iran

Motivation: for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all

Pierre Agostini - Male - 82 years

Birth country: Tunisia

Motivation: for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter

Affiliation: The Ohio State University - USA

Ferenc Krausz - Male - 61 years

Birth country: Hungary

Motivation: for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter

Affiliation: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics - Germany; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - Germany

Anne L’Huillier - Female - 65 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter

Affiliation: Lund University - Sweden