The Fight for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons: The 2024 Nobel Prize Awarded to a Japanese Institution

Bayan News – On Friday, October 11, 2024, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Japanese institution “Nihon Hidankyo,” which has been working toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

The award ceremony, held in Oslo, the capital of Norway, honored this Japanese organization representing survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki for its efforts to achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world, naming it the winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize.

The process of announcing the Nobel Prize winners began four days ago in Norway. On the first day, the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was awarded to the Karolinska Institute in Sweden for the discovery of microRNAs.

Additionally, the committee named John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton as the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking discoveries and inventions that enabled machine learning through artificial neural networks.

Two days ago, the third Nobel Prize of the year was jointly awarded to David Baker for research on computational protein design, and Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, researchers from Google DeepMind in the UK, for predicting protein structures.

Yesterday, October 10, the Nobel Literature Committee named South Korean author Han Kang as the recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Ms. Kang was awarded for her highly poetic prose that addresses historical traumas and reveals the fragility of human life.