Nobel Prizes

Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, two of the main researchers in the field of artificial intelligence, won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2024. The image was prepared using DALEE and is not a scientific image

Artificial intelligence plays a major role in two categories of the 2024 Nobel Prizes. This is a sign of things to come

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It is likely that we will see more Nobel medals awarded to researchers who used AI tools. As this happens, we may find that the scientific methods honored by those Nobel Prize committees will move away from the simple categories of "physics," "chemistry," and "physiology."
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be awarded to a researcher at the University of Washington and two Google Deep Mind employees

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David Baker from the University of Washington and researchers Demis Hasevis and John Jumper from Google's DeepMind company won the prize for designing artificial proteins and predicting protein structure with the help of a computer
2024 Nobel Prize in Physics winners John Joseph Hadfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 for researchers on the development of artificial neural networks (extension)

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John Hadfield and Geoffrey Hinton won the prize for their pioneering research in machine learning using neural networks inspired by the structure of the brain
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The developers of the deep learning technologies using neural networks won the Nobel Prize

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The two, John Hopfield from Princeton University and Prof. Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto changed the way machine learning is done for artificial intelligence and promoted the technology becoming as powerful as we know it today
The mechanism of the flow of genetic information from the DNA molecule to microRNA molecules and from there to proteins. The identical genetic information is stored in the DNA of all cells in our body. This situation requires precise regulation of gene activity so that only the correct set of genes is active in each type of cell. Courtesy of the Nobel Prize Committee

Gary Rubcon and Victor Ambrose won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of microRNA and its effect on gene regulation (extension)

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The two scientists were recognized for their contribution to the understanding of genetic regulatory mechanisms through the discovery of microRNAs - tiny RNA molecules that play an essential role in the processes of development and function in cells
mRNA. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Victor Ambrose and Gary Rubcon, for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation

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Who will win the Nobel Prize in Physics this year? All predictions

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The Nobel Prizes are announced at the beginning of October every year, and about a month before that rumors, predictions and speculations are spread about the identity of the candidates and the chances of winning. In recent years, using innovative data analysis tools, forecasting experts
Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize for scientists who managed to create quantum dots - the technology behind the QLED screens

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Today, quantum dots, which are tiny nanoparticles whose size determines their properties, illuminate computer monitors and TV screens when these are based on QLED technology. In the field of medicine, quantum dots are currently used
From the left, Prof. Franz Krause, and Prof. Anne L'Ollier during the ceremony of receiving the Wolf Prize from the President of Israel Yitzhak Herzog. Photo courtesy of the Wolf Foundation

Nobel Prize in Physics for 2023 to researchers who managed to measure tiny and fast processes in electrons

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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three researchers: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier for "the development of their methods that produce short attosecond pulses
Figure 1. Methods for vaccine production before the corona epidemic. (Courtesy of the Committee for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine): Use of a weakened or inactive virus and a recombinant protein (the virus) that is transferred to the body via a viral vector and activates the immune system. Courtesy of the Nobel Prize Committee

Nobel Prize in Medicine 2023 for the pioneers in the field of mRNA who accelerated the vaccines for Corona

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Kariko and Weissman immediately realized that their discovery was of enormous significance for the possible use of messenger RNA in medicine. These important findings were published in 2005, 15 years before the outbreak of the Corona epidemic.
2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach

Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering mRNA applications for corona vaccines

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The two, Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, were informed about a month ago that they had won the HARVEI Award at the Technion
Quantum entanglement. From the explanation on the Nobel Prize website.

Nobel Prize in Physics for 2022 to three scientists in the field of quantum entanglement

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Figure 3. Pabo's discoveries provided important information regarding the population of the world at the time Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa and spread to the rest of the world. Neanderthals lived in western Eurasia while Denisovans lived in eastern Eurasia. Breeding between the different species occurred when the Homo sapiens spread across the continent, leaving behind treasured remains in DNA. Illustration from the explanation for the 2022 Nobel Prize for Medicine. From the Nobel Prize website

Nobel Prize for Medicine to the Swede Svante Pavo, the discoverer of the Denisovan man and the decipherer of the genome of extinct human species

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Santa Febo is a Swedish evolutionary geneticist, one of the founding fathers of the field of paleogenetics, leader of the international project to map the Neanderthal human genome, and co-discoverer of Denisovan man
On the right, Jennifer Daudena and Emmanuel Charpentier. Illustration: © Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas Elmehed.

Women win Nobel Prizes in science - are we at the beginning of a trend?

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The number of women who received the Nobel Prize in physics increased from three to four, and in chemistry from five to seven (in both cases including Marie Curie). Is this a coincidence or the start of a trend?
On the right, Jennifer Daudena and Emmanuel Charpentier. Illustration: © Nobel Media. Ill. Niklas Elmehed.

"It was difficult for Emmanuel Charpentier to publish because no one was interested in infectious diseases as long as there was no epidemic"

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This is what Prof. Harmona Sorek from the Institute of Life Sciences at the Hebrew University says in an interview with the Scientist website, who is happy about the decision to award Emmanuel Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna the Wolf Prize last year. Now Charpentier is establishing the
Photo of Roger Penrose winning the Wolf Prize with Stephen Hawking at the Knesset in Jerusalem. Photo credit Wolf Foundation

Nobel laureate Prof. Dan Shechtman: "Penrose has an indirect connection to my discovery" The winners in chemistry developed an "explosive" in biology

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Prof. Shechtman, chairman of the Wolf Foundation, also tells about the ratio of one-third of the Wolf Prize winners in the respective fields who later win Nobel Prizes, and why there are such large differences in the gaps. Crisper, like nitroglycerin, can be used
Prof. Reinhart Genzel at the Parnell Observatory, part of the Southern European Observatory project in Chela. PR photo, ESO

Nobel laureate Reinhart Ganzel is a great friend of Israeli science

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Says Prof. Hagai Netzer from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University who wrote dozens of joint articles with Ganzel
Star S2 orbiting the black hole at the center of the galaxy - Sagittarius (Sagittarius) *A, one of the proofs for the existence of the black hole at the center of the galaxy, from the research of 2020 Nobel Prize winners Reinhart Ganzel and Andrea Gas. From Wikipedia. By ESO/M. Kornmesser - https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1825b/ , CC BY 1825, Link

"Without the observations of Ganzel and Gas, the whole subject of black holes would have remained theoretical"

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Illustration of the galaxy and the giant black hole at its center. The black hole converts some of the matter it absorbs into energetic radiation (shaded in blue), while the galaxy continues to form new stars (purple areas). [Image credit: Michael Helfenbein/Yale University - M. Helfenbein / Yale University]

Roger Penrose and the two black hole detectors at the center of the galaxy won the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Explanation of the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Image: Nobel Prize Committee

The discoverers of the hepatitis C virus won the Nobel Prize for Medicine

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The winners are: Harvey Alter from the USA, Mike Houghton from the UK and Charles Rice from the USA
Winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Bannister Goodenough, Manley Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for lithium-ion battery developers

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The location of the planet pegasi-51b, the first planet discovered outside the solar system. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

The discovery of planets outside the solar system - changed our perception of the universe

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We observe the universe and it looks the same in all directions. From the Nobel Prize website

"Nobel winner Jim Peebles has led theoretical research in cosmology for decades"

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Figure 2 The oxygen-sensing mechanism for which this year's Nobel laureates won is of fundamental importance in physiology, for example, for our metabolism and immune system and for our ability to exercise at variable vigorous levels. Many pathological processes are also affected by this mechanism. Today, many researchers are focusing on developing new drugs that can inhibit or activate the oxygen sensing mechanism, with the aim of improving treatments for anemia, cancer and other diseases. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee for Medicine

Three researchers who studied how cells sense oxygen levels have won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine

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Marie Gal-Man from Wikipedia

Nobel laureate Marie Gell-Mann, the founder of modern particle physics, has passed away

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Prof. William Nordhaus, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics

Nobel Prize for the Environment

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Yael Rosh 2018, Rector of Achava Academic College. PR photo

Third overall winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics and fifth in Chemistry: Where have the top female scientists gone?

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Bacteriophages attack bacteria. Illustration: shutterstock

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018 to three researchers for harnessing evolution to develop environmentally friendly catalysts, proteins and antibodies

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Nobel Prize for Medicine 2018: Harnessing the immune system to fight cancer

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2018 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Tsuko Honjo, surrounded by his research team in his laboratory at the University of Tokyo, just after the announcement of his 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine. From his Twitter account

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the ability to use the immune system to fight cancerous tumors, including James Ellison - winner of the Wolf Prize

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An example of improving the resolution of a biomolecule: from the left, before 2013; On the right, today.

Winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Developers of a method for imaging biological molecules in an electron microscope

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The LIGO facility in Hanford, Washington. Photo: CALTECH

"The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics were themselves surprised by the strength of the signal of the first gravitational wave event"

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Simulation of the merger of two black holes, the existence of which was indicated by the gravitational waves recorded by LIGO in 2017. Source: The SXS (Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes) Project.

Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of gravitational waves

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The Nobel Physics Prize Committee announced this morning the awarding of half of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics to Rainer Weiss, and the other half to Barry Barish and Kip Thorne, all three from the LIGO/VIRGO partnership
The announcement of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for 2017, the discoverers of the molecular mechanism behind the biological clock. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

Nobel prize for medicine for the discovery of the molecular mechanisms underlying the biological clock

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Dr. Shira Adar with Nobel laureate in chemistry Professor Aziz Sanger. (Photo: Max Englund, UNC Health Care)

The Israeli postdoctoral student researching with 2015 Nobel laureate in chemistry Professor Aziz Sanger

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The DNA code. Image: shutterstock

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 – Part 3: Modritz discovered the DNA repair mechanisms

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The process of repair through nucleotide excision that earned its discoverers the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015. From the Nobel Prize website

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 – Part 2: "Biochemistry is the attending physician of life"

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Illustrating the way Nobel laureate Satoshi Umura arrived at the effective substances against parasitic diseases. Illustration: Nobel Prize website

Bacteria and plants against parasites

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A deep perceptual change. Macdonald (right) and Kajita. Photos: Nobel Prize website

What a class, I have a mass! – Nobel Prize in Physics for the scientists who revealed the secrets of neutrinos

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The neutrino particles exchange identity between the electron neutrino, tau neutrino and muon neutrino. Illustration: Nobel Prize Committee

Two researchers who separately discovered that neutrinos have mass won the Nobel Prize in Physics

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Drug developers against malaria, river blindness and elephantiasis won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Image: Nobel Prize website

Nobel Prize in Medicine for the developers of methods of curing diseases caused by parasites including malaria and river blindness

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014: How the optical microscope became a nanoscope

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A scientist looks at a sample through a microscope. Illustration: shutterstock

Nobel prize winners in chemistry defeat the laws of physics

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LED strips in the three basic colors - green, red and blue. Photo: shutterstock

The contribution of the Nobel laureates: blue LEDs fill the world with new light

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Nobel Prize in Physics to the Japanese developers of the blue LED and the lighting revolution

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Associate Professor Dori Derdikman (right) with Professor Edward Moser Photo credit: Dori Derdikman

An Israeli researcher on the Nobel laureate couple: "humble people who think simply but know how to solve complicated problems"

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May-Britt and Edward Moser are the fourth married couple to win the Nobel together

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Albert Einstein, Chaim Weizmann later the first president (from left) Menachem Oshiskin at a meeting in 1921. From Wikipedia

All the President's scientists

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Prof. Dan Shechtman at the "Pedagogy in the Age of Education" conference of the Initiative for Applied Research in Education 2610117

Prof. Dan Shechtman in an interview with Channel 1: wants to run for president

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Winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at a press conference held on Saturday, December 7.12.13, XNUMX. Photo: Avi Blizovsky. Unfortunately, I cannot upload photos from the ceremony due to copyright.

Gunnar Kralström, head of the committee that chose the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the boundaries between physics, chemistry and biology have blurred

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