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Awarding body for the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel economics prize to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford for building the microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation. Their models, developed over nearly five decades, are now the standard toolkit for central banks and governments worldwide.
Updated Yesterday
Awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics to Francis Halzen
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics went to Francis Halzen for building a telescope out of a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice. The telescope, called IceCube, caught high-energy neutrinos from beyond our galaxy — the first cosmic messengers that are not light.
Updated 5 days ago
Awards Physics, Chemistry, and Economics Prizes
The Nobel Assembly kicked off October 2025 by awarding the Medicine Prize to three scientists who discovered the immune system's off-switch—regulatory T cells controlled by the Foxp3 gene. Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell identified the gene in 2001 while studying scurfy mice that died from autoimmune storms. Shimon Sakaguchi had already discovered the cells themselves in 1995. Together, their work explained why our immune systems don't destroy us and opened the door to treatments for everything from diabetes to lupus.
Updated May 19
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