STOCKHOLM (AP) — Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced Tuesday, the second award to be revealed this year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm a day after a trio of scientists wonthe prize for contributions to medicine. The physics honor has been awarded 118 times to 226Nobel Prize laureatesbetween 1901 and 2024. Last year,artificial intelligencepioneersJohn Hopfield and Geoffrey Hintonwon the physics prize for helping create the building blocks of machine learning. Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Dr. Shimon Sakaguchiwon the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries about how the immune system knows to attack germs and not our bodies. Nobel announcements continue with thechemistry prizeon Wednesday andliteratureon Thursday.The Nobel Peace Prizewill be announced Friday and the Nobel Memorial Prize ineconomicson Oct. 13. The award ceremony will be held Dec. 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of Alfred Nobel, the wealthy Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamitewho founded the prizes. The prizes carry priceless prestige and a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (nearly $1.2 million). ___ Corder reported from The Hague, Netherlands.
