In addition to the medal and diploma, the winners receive approximately R$4.8 million
THE Nobel Prize for Physics 2024 will be announced this Tuesday, 8, at 6:45 (Brasilia time), at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in Stockholmin Sweden. The prize is awarded to those responsible for discoveries of great importance, “which have changed scientific paradigms and which bring great benefits to humanity”.
In addition to the medal and diploma, the winners take home a significant sum of money, 11 million Swedish kronor (approximately R$4.8 million). The Physics Prize has been awarded since 1901, the year in which the prize began, following the guidelines left posthumously in the will of the Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).
Last year three researchers won the Nobel Prize for Physics: scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier were awarded for their research on experimental methodologies for generating pulses of light for the “study of the dynamics electronics in matter”.
Agostini is a researcher at Ohio University (USA), Krausz works at the Max Planck Institute, in Germany, and Anne L’Huillier at Lund University, in Sweden: she is only the fifth woman to win the prize in the Physics category .
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is responsible for selecting the winners. The academy appoints a commission that evaluates candidates’ CVs and presents a final proposal, which is then voted on by a larger group of experts. The names of the candidates can only be revealed after a period of 50 years.
Of the 224 scientists who received the Nobel Prize in Physics, only five were women. The most famous of these is Marie Curie, who received the prize in 1903 for her research on polonium. He also received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911.
Source: Terra
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