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Han Kang has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Han Kang is an author from South Korea. 

She awarded nobel prize for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.

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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 was awarded to the Jon Fosse.

He is an author of Norway. 

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Simon Johnson, James Robinson and Daron Acemoglu have been awarded 2024 Nobel Prize Economics.

Awarded for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.

Their book titled 'Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity'  was published in 2023

Both Simon Johnson and James Robinson are British-Americans.

Daron Acemoglu is a Turkish-American.

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Nobel Prize in Economics 2023 was awarded to Claudia Goldin

She is an American economic historian

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About Literature Nobel Prize 2024

Winner: Han Kang

She is the author of South Korea.

She is the first woman of South Korea to win Nobel Prize in Literature.  

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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 was awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse.

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 About Chemistry Nobel Prize 2024

Co-winners: David Baker, John Jumper,  Briton Demis

They are scientists from the United States of America (USA) 

Additional Inormation: 

Moungi Bawendi & Louis Brus of the USA along with Alexey Ekimov of Russia were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2023. 

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 About Chemistry Nobel Prize 2024

Co-winners: David Baker, John Jumper,  Briton Demis

They are scientists from the United States of America (USA) 

Additional Inormation: 

Moungi Bawendi & Louis Brus of the USA along with Alexey Ekimov of Russia were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2023. 

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About Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

Co-winners: John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

Award given by: Royal Swedish Academy

Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist

Geoffrey Hinton is called the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI)

John Hopfield is an American scientist

Additional Information:

They are awarded Nobel Prize for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks

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The first Noble Prize to be awarded to a South Asian was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore  

Year	Image	Laureate	Country at the time of the award	Category	Comment
1913		Rabindranath Tagore	British India	Literature	First Asian and Indian Nobel laureate

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• The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually in Oslo, Norway, by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
• The award ceremony takes place on December 10, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.

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