The Hindu
· collected 2026-10-06 · by Peter Hegemann; Georg Nagel; Karl Deisseroth
This interactive guide from October 6, 2026, details the achievements of Nobel Prize winners in economics, peace, literature, and chemistry for their contributions in various fields. The economic prize went to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for studying how institutions influence prosperity across countries. Nihon Hidankyo received the Peace Prize for advocating a world free of nuclear weapons through witness testimonies from atomic bomb survivors. South Korean author Han Kang was honored with the Literature Prize for confronting historical traumas in her work. Lastly, David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M. Jumper were awarded the Chemistry Prize for advancements in protein design and prediction using AI technology.
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The prizes are being announced from October 5 to 12, 2026.
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Published: October 6, 2026
Published: October 6, 2026
For studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson are currently Professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, U.S.
James A. Robinson serves as a Professor at University of Chicago, U.S.
Their work examines the reasons for the differences in prosperity between countries, one of them being institutions introduced through colonisation.
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It focuses on extractive and inclusive colonial institutions that have reversed the fortunes of colonies, making poor colonies richer and rich colonies poorer.
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For its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.
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It has member organizations in all 47 Japanese prefectures, thus representing almost all organized Hibakusha.
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The total number of the surviving Hibakusha living in Japan is 174,080, as of March 2016.
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HIDANKYO is cooperating with those organizations in their work for the defense of the living and rights of these people.
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For her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.
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Han Kang was born in 1970 in the South Korean city of Gwangju before moving with her family to Seoul.
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She comes from a literary background, her father Han Seung-won being a reputed novelist.
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Alongside her writing, she has also devoted herself to art and music, which is reflected throughout her entire literary production.
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Han Kang began her career in 1993 with the publication of a number of poems in the Literature and Society.
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Her prose debut came in 1995 with the short story collection.
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Han Kang’s major international breakthrough came with the novel The Vegetarian in 2015.
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In her oeuvre, Han Kang confronts historical traumas and invisible sets of rules and, in each of her works, exposes the fragility of human life.
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Baker was awarded the prize “for computational protein design”
Hassabis and Jumper were awarded the prize “for protein structure prediction”
David Baker is a Professor at the University of Washington.
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He succeeded with the almost impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins.
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Since 2003, Baker has been using amino acids to create new proteins.
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These have uses in pharmaceuticals, vaccines, nanomaterials and as sensors.
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Hassabis and Jumper have developed an AI model to solve a 50-year-old problem: predicting proteins’ complex structures.
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These discoveries hold enormous potential.
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Francis Halzen, born 1944 in Tienen, Belgium, is a Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, where he has played a leading role in the study of high-energy neutrinos and their cosmic sources.
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He earned his Ph.D. in 1969 from KU Leuven, Belgium.
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Francis Halzen's work has helped advance our understanding of some of the most energetic phenomena in the universe through the study of particles known as neutrinos.
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Neutrinos are tiny, elusive particles that pass through the Earth and our bodies almost unnoticed.
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But because they can travel vast distances without changing direction, they can reveal clues about the most powerful events in the universe.
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Halzen recognised this potential, and in 1988, he proposed an ambitious idea: use the enormous volume of Antarctic ice at the South Pole to detect high-energy neutrinos.
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When a neutrino collides with an atomic nucleus in the ice, it can produce a faint flash of light.
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Sensors embedded deep in the ice can detect and track these flashes.
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The idea eventually became IceCube, a neutrino observatory occupying about one cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice.
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Completed in 2011, IceCube soon detected high-energy neutrinos originating far beyond our Solar System, opening a new way to investigate the universe's most powerful cosmic particle accelerators.
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Halzen's vision and leadership helped establish neutrino astronomy as a new field of science.
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Hegemann, born in 1954, is the Hertie Senior Professor of Neuroscience at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
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He earned his Ph.D. in 1984 from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, where the discoveries were made.
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Nagel, born in 1953, is a Professor of Molecular Plant Physiology at the University of Würzburg, Germany.
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He earned his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
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The prize-recognised discoveries were made at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Deisseroth, born in 1971, is the D.H. Chen Professor and Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at Stanford University, USA, and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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He earned his Ph.D. in 1998 and M.D. in 2000 from Stanford University.
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The prize was awarded for their discoveries of light-gated ion channels and optogenetics — a revolutionary technique that allows scientists to study how nerve cells control memories, emotions and behaviour in the living brain.
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…and 20 more, not listed.
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