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Nobel Prizes 2026
The Nobel Prizes are the yearly awards founded by Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, given since 1901 in five fields, with an economics prize added by Sweden's central bank in 1968. The 2026 round honoured optogenetics, cosmic neutrinos and mirror-image chemistry and gave literature to Canada's Anne Carson; on 9 October the Peace Prize went to Navi Pillay, a South African judge of Indian Tamil origin, and economics is due on 12 October.
Last updated 9 October 20265 min read
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New card for the 2026 Nobels, split from the awards tracker: adds the Peace Prize to South African judge Navi Pillay, of Indian Tamil origin, beside the four earlier prizes.
- Nobel Prize 2026
- Navi Pillay
- Nobel Peace Prize
- optogenetics
- IceCube
- asymmetric synthesis
- Anne Carson
- Norwegian Nobel Committee
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