2025 Nobel Prize Winners | Education, Birth Dates, & Facts
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The 2025 Nobel Prize laureates will receive their awards on December 10.
The 2025 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to American biologists Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell and Japanese biologist Shimon Sakaguchi by the Karolinska Institutet on October 6, 2025. They won for their work on the immune system, specifically regulatory T cells, which stop other T cells from attacking the body’s own cells.
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Birth date: December 4, 1960, Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S.
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Education: Bachelor’s in biochemistry and cell biology from the University of California, San Diego; doctorate in microbiology and immunology from the University of California, Los Angeles
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Affiliation: Scientific adviser at Sonoma Biotherapeutics, San Francisco
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Birth date: January 19, 1951, Nagahama, Shiga, Japan
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Affiliation: Professor of immunology at the University of Ōsaka
The 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to British physicist John Clarke, French physicist Michel H. Devoret, and American physicist John M. Martinis on October 7, 2025. They won for their work on enhancing the understanding of quantum mechanics in large-scale electrical systems, paving the way for developing advanced quantum technology such as quantum computing.
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Birth date: February 10, 1942, Cambridge, England
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Education: Bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees in physics from Cambridge University
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Affiliation: Emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley
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Birth date: 1953, Paris, France
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Education: Doctorate in physics from Paris-Sud University
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Affiliation: Emeritus professor of applied physics at Yale University; Professor of physics at University of California, Santa Barbara
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Birth date: 1958
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Education: Bachelor’s and doctorate in physics from University of California, Berkeley
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Affiliation: Emeritus professor of physics at University of California, Santa Barbara
The 2025 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Japanese chemist Susumu Kitagawa, English chemist Richard Robson, and American chemist Omar M. Yaghi on October 8, 2025. They received the prize for their work in the development of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)—porous crystalline materials with tunable structures that have enabled advances in gas storage, catalysis, and environmental applications.
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Birth date: July 4, 1951, Kyoto, Japan
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Education: Bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees in chemistry from Kyōto University
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Affiliation: Distinguished professor of chemistry at Kyōto University
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Birth date: February 9, 1965, Amman, Jordan
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Affiliation: The James and Neeltje Tretter Professor in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley
The 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Lázló Krasznahorkai on October 9, 2025. The Hungarian novelist was cited “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
Lázló Krasznahorkai
The 2025 Nobel Prize for Peace will be awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on October 10, 2025.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel will be awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on October 13, 2025.
The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by Amy Tikkanen.
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