The ceremony will take place (as always) on December 10.
The winners this year:
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017:
Kazuo Ishiguro, "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017:
Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne, "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017:
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson, "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017:
Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young, "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"
The Nobel Peace Prize 2017:
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), "for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons"
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017:
Richard H. Thaler, "for his contributions to behavioural economics"
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