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MIT-affiliated winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes had 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 Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, together with James Robinson of the University of Chicago, for his or her work on the connection between financial development and political establishments. MIT Department of Biology alumnus Victor Ambros ’75, PhD ’79 additionally shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Gary Ruvkun, who accomplished his postdoctoral analysis on the Institute alongside Ambros within the Nineteen Eighties. The two had been honored for his or her discovery of MicroRNA.
The honorees and their invited friends took half in quite a few 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 obtained their medals from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the dying of Alfred Nobel. (Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize had been honored on the identical day in Oslo, Norway.)
At least 105 MIT associates — together with school, workers, alumni, and others — have gained Nobel Prizes, in response to MIT Institutional Research. Photos from the festivities seem under.
