Watch as Nobel Peace Prize 2023 winner is announced

Oliver Browning
Friday 06 October 2023 09:40 BST
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Watch as the winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize is announced on Friday 6 October.

Imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi won the award for fighting oppression of women in Iran and and her efforts to promote human rights and freedom for all.

Last year’s prize was shared between human rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties and Memorial, a rights group banned in Russia.

Several other Nobel Prize winners have already been announced this week.

The physics prize was given to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for research that demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light that can be used to capture and study rapid processes inside atoms.

Jon Fosse, a Norwegian author, playwright and poet, claimed the prize for literature. His work focused on “anxieties, insecurities, questions of life and death”.

The prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines.

And the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to three scientists for their work in developing quantum dots.

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