Source : Perth Now news
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award the Nobel Prize in chemistry in Stockholm.
In 2025, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their development of new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside, laying the groundwork to potentially suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere or harvest moisture from desert environments.
The 2026 prizes began with the Nobel for medicine, awarded on Monday to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works.
The physics award on Tuesday recognised a scientist’s efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos.
After the chemistry prize is announced on Wednesday, the literature prize is set to be awarded on Thursday.
After Friday’s peace prize is awarded, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced Monday.
The prize money this year is 12 million Swedish kronor (about $A1.7 million), whether for an individual, a small group of laureates or an organisation.
