2023 Nobel Prize Winners: The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden on October 5, 2023, and will be awarded on December 10, 2023. The prize was established by Alfred Nobel in accordance with his will.
List of Nobel Prize winners for 2023
| S. no | Name | Category |
| 1. | Katalin Karikó Drew Weissman | Physiology or medicine |
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2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman will share the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine as a result of their discoveries about nucleoside base changes, which enabled the creation of an mRNA vaccine against COVID-19. This decision was made by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute.
Katalin Karikó: Katalin Karikó was born in 1955 in Szolnok, Hungary. In 1982, she graduated and received her doctorate from the University of Szeged, and from 1982 to 1985 she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Szeged. She then conducted postdoctoral studies at Bethesda University of Health Sciences and Temple University in Philadelphia. She was later hired as an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, where she remained until 2013. At BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals, she later advanced to the positions of vice president and senior vice president. She is an adjunct professor at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania from 2021 and a professor at the University of Szeged from 2021.
Drew Weissman: Drew Weissman from the United States was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 1959. In 1987, he graduated from Boston University with a Ph.D. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health after completing clinical training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School. Weissman started his research team in 1997 at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the director of the Penn Institute for RNA Innovation and the Roberts Family Professor of Vaccine Research.
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Nobel Committee
The Nobel Committee for 2023 of the Swedish Academy consists of the following members:
Name | Selected | Position | Profession |
Anders Olsson | in 2008 | Chairman of the commission | Literary critic, literary historian |
Mats Malm | 2018 | associate member permanent secretary | Translator, literary historian, editor |
According to Wästberg | in 1997 | Member | Novelist, journalist, poet, essayist |
Anne Swärd | in 2019 | Member | Novelist |
Ellen Mattson | in 2019 | Member | Novelist, essayist |
Steve Sem-Sandberg | in 2021 | Member | Journalist, writer, translator |
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Every year, in the month of November, the Swedish Academy receives thousands of letters from all over the world recommending both famous and obscure authors for the Nobel Prize. Only qualified individuals may make such nominations, including members of the Swedish Academy and other academies, organizations and societies that are conceptually and functionally comparable to it, professors of literature and linguistics at universities and colleges, previous winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature and leaders of writers’ organizations who are qualified to serve as ambassadors of the literature and fine arts of their nations.
Source: Nobel Prize Organization (nobelprize.org)
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