Ales Bialiatski, Russia’s Memorial and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties win Nobel Peace Prize 2022

The Russian organisation Memorial, the Ukrainian organisation Center for Civil Liberties, and the imprisoned Belarusian rights campaigner Ales Bialiatski have received this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee’s chair, Berit Reiss-Andersen, announced on Friday in Oslo.

A week of Nobel Prize announcements began on Monday with the prize in medicine honouring the researcher who deciphered Neanderthal DNA’s mysteries.

Three scientists who created methods of joining molecules that can be used to create more precise medication designs received the chemistry prize on Wednesday.

The recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature is the French author Annie Ernaux.

On Monday, October 10, the economics Nobel Prize for 2022 will be revealed.

The honour has in the past drawn attention to organisations and activists working to end wars, ease suffering, and defend human rights.

The winners from the previous year have experienced hardship since obtaining the award. Despite government efforts to silence them, journalists Dmitry Muratov of Russia and Maria Ressa of the Philippines have been fighting for the survival of their news organisations. For “their efforts to defend freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and sustainable peace,” they received recognition last year. Monday marked the beginning of Nobel Prize announcement week, with Swedish scientist Svante Paabo receiving the prize in medicine for revealing Neanderthal DNA’s hidden information that was crucial to understanding our immune system.

The physics award was shared by three experts on Tuesday. A phenomenon known as quantum entanglement, which may be utilised for specialised computing and to encrypt information, was demonstrated by the Frenchman Alain Aspect, the American John F. Clauser, and the Austrian Anton Zeilinger.

The American scientists Carolyn R. Bertozzi and K. Barry Sharpless, as well as the Danish researcher Morten Meldal, were given the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for creating a method of “snapping molecules together” that can be used to explore cells, map DNA, and create drugs that can more precisely target diseases like cancer.

The recipient of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature is the French author Annie Ernaux. Her books that bravely draw on her experiences as a working-class woman to examine life in France during the 1940s were praised by the panel for skillfully fusing fiction and autobiography.

On Monday, the economics Nobel Prize for 2022 will be announced.