The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in 2023 to anti-Iranian regime activist Narges Mohammadi. This was announced today (Friday) in Stockholm by the award committee. She received the award for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all, the announcement said. Mohammadi has been imprisoned in an Iranian prison since 2016.
Yesterday it was announced that the Norwegian writer Jon Fosse was announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2023. The decision stated that the award was given to him for his "Innovative plays and poems, which give voice to what cannot be said."
Yesterday, it was announced that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov from the United States, for their work in the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. Before the official announcement of the prize by the members of the committee, a statement was sent to the general press by mistake in which the names of the winners were revealed, and the members of the prize committee evaded questions when asked on the subject.
Earlier this week, the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics were announced, Pierre Agostini from Ohio University in the USA, Anne L'Huillier from Lund University in Sweden, and Ferenc Krausz from the University of Munich in Germany. The prize was given to them following their contribution to the development of special methods for producing extremely short flashes of light.
This was also preceded by the naming of the Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó and the American doctor Drew Weissman in the Nobel Prize for Medicine, following their discoveries that enabled the development of mRNA gene therapy products. The Nobel Peace Prize was announced, despite calls not to award the prize due to the war in Ukraine. The last prize, in the field of economics, will be announced next week on Monday.