The 2021 Nobel Prizes were awarded by the Nobel Foundation, based in Sweden. Six categories were awarded: Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace, and Economic Sciences. [1]
Nobel Week took place from December 6 to 12, including programming such as lectures, dialogues, and discussions. The award ceremony and banquet for the Peace Prize were scheduled in Oslo on December 10, while the award ceremony and banquet for all other categories were scheduled for the same day in Stockholm. [2] [3]
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![]() | Syukuro Manabe (b. 1931) | ![]()
| "for the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming" | [5] |
![]() | Klaus Hasselmann (b. 1931) | ![]() | ||
![]() | Giorgio Parisi (b. 1948) | ![]() | "for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales" |
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![]() | Benjamin List (b. 1968) | ![]() | "for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis" | [6] |
![]() | David W.C. MacMillan (b. 1968) | ![]() |
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![]() | David Julius (b. 1955) | ![]() | "for the discovery of receptors for temperature and touch" | [7] |
![]() | Ardem Patapoutian (b. 1967) | ![]() |
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![]() | Abdulrazak Gurnah (b. 1948) | ![]()
| "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents" | [8] |
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![]() | Maria Ressa (b. 1963) | ![]() | "for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace." | [9] |
![]() | Dmitry Muratov (b. 1961) | ![]() |
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![]() | David Card (b. 1956) | ![]() | "for his empirical contributions to labour economics" | [10] |
![]() | Joshua Angrist (b. 1960) | ![]() | "for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships" | |
![]() | Guido Imbens (b. 1963) | ![]() |