MIT-affiliated winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes have been celebrated in Stockholm, Sweden, as a part of Nobel Week, which culminated with a grand Nobel ceremony on Dec. 10.
This 12 months’s laureates with MIT ties embody Daron Acemoglu, an Institute Professor, and Simon Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship, who collectively shared the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Financial Sciences in Reminiscence of Alfred Nobel, together with James Robinson of the College of Chicago, for his or her work on the connection between financial progress and political establishments. MIT Division of Biology alumnus Victor Ambros ’75, PhD ’79 additionally shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Drugs with Gary Ruvkun, who accomplished his postdoctoral analysis on the Institute alongside Ambros within the Nineteen Eighties. The 2 have been honored for his or her discovery of MicroRNA.
The honorees and their invited friends took half in plenty of actions in Stockholm throughout this 12 months’s Nobel Week, which started Dec. 5 with press conferences and a tour of particular Nobel Week Lights across the metropolis. Lectures, a go to to the Nobel Prize Museum, and a live performance adopted.
Per custom, the winners acquired their medals from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the loss of life of Alfred Nobel. (Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize have been honored on the identical day in Oslo, Norway.)
At the least 105 MIT associates — together with college, employees, alumni, and others — have gained Nobel Prizes, in accordance with MIT Institutional Analysis. Photographs from the festivities seem beneath.
