Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson commended for advancing understanding of inequality
Awards for Sir Demis Hassabis, John Jumper and Geoffrey Hinton recognise how AI is changing our world
Nihon Hidankyo movement recognised for decades of campaigning against nuclear weapons
Award comes against a backdrop of growing international appreciation of her country’s culture
The South Korean author won 2016’s Man Booker International Prize for her novel ‘The Vegetarian’. This pick of FT reviews and interviews looks back at her other books
UN agency for Palestinians among nominees 30 years after prize handed to architects of Oslo Accords
Award for Sir Demis Hassabis, John Jumper and David Baker recognises advances in unlocking proteins’ secrets
Geoffrey Hinton, co-recipient of award with John Hopfield, warns of potential dangers of the technology
Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun discovered microRNA and its role in how organisms develop and function
Nobel Prize winner saw his work confirmed by experiments at the Cern particle accelerator
An accidental invader of economics, his insights changed the discipline forever
American scholar became famous for his work on growth theory in the 1950s
The winner of the Nobel Prize in economic sciences has explored expectations, incentives and constraints
Harvard professor has advanced understanding of women’s labour market outcomes
The Norwegian is awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature
Award given for her ‘fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights’
The author was lauded for his haunting stories that ‘give voice to the unsayable’
Tiny semiconductor materials have wide-ranging uses in electronics, from display screens to medical technology
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier created ultra-short light pulses with applications in materials science
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman praised for role in ‘unprecedented rate of development’ of coronavirus jabs
The new Nobel laureates proved Einstein was not always right
Bernanke, Diamond and Dybvig have taught lessons about bank runs that have been absorbed since the financial crisis
Former chief of US central bank shares award with two other economists for research into financial crises
Laureates praised for ‘outstanding effort to document war crimes, human right abuses and the abuse of power’
A selection of interviews and reviews from our archives to celebrate an oeuvre defined by ‘courage and clinical acuity’