The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022 was awarded to the French writer Anne Hernaud “for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, erasure and preservation of personal memory.”

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Past laureates of the 2022 Nobel Prize

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Monday awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine to Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo for his discoveries about the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.

Thanks to his pioneering research, Svante Pääbo achieved something seemingly impossible: he sequenced the genome of a Neanderthal, an extinct relative of modern humans. He also made a sensational discovery of the previously unknown hominin Denisova.

Researchers Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their experiments with entangled photons, establishing violations of Bell’s inequalities and pioneering the science of quantum information.

Alain Aspect (France), John Clauser (USA) and Anton Zeilinger (Austria) conducted pioneering experiments using “entangled” quantum states in which two particles behave as a single entity even though they are separated. Their results paved the way for a new technology based on quantum information, explained the Swedish Academy of Sciences.

On Wednesday, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldahl and C. Barry Sharpless for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

“The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is aimed at facilitating complex processes. Click chemistry and bioorthogonal reactions have brought chemistry into a new era of functionality,” emphasized the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Thus, Barry Sharpless became only the fifth person in history to receive a second Nobel Prize, which was also awarded in 2001. This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry was also notable because two of the analysts’ favorites, Sharpless and Bertozzi, won the Nobel Prize, and the outcome of the vote at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is notoriously difficult to predict.

On Friday, after the awarding of the Nobel Prize for literature, the awarding of the Peace Prize will take place.

Last year, Zanzibar writer Abdulrazak Gurna won the Nobel Prize for literature for his “uncompromising and compassionate approach to the consequences of colonialism and the plight of refugees across the gap between cultures and continents,” according to the Swedish Academy.