The annual award for outstanding contributions to chemistry by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
This update consolidates Nobel Prize results announced this week across medicine, physics, chemistry and literature, detailing winners and the prize schedule for the remaining categories.
The Nobel Committee has awarded Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for discovering nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, solving a long-standing mystery of spontaneous homochirality. The prize highlights advances in chemistry with implications for drug design and materials science.
The Swedish Academy has named Canadian poet and novelist Anne Carson the Nobel Prize in Literature recipient for 2026, citing a bold and inventive oeuvre that blends poetry, prose and classical tradition. Carson is 76 and has long explored the interface between philology and poetic meaning. The prize, worth 12 million Swedish kronor, was announced from Stockholm as she is in Iceland listening to the wind.