🏅 Perseverance

Something to note about the 2025 Nobel prize winners

Peace

María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, was awarded the prize for fighting dictatorship and promoting democracy in her country for nearly 25 years.

Physics

The committee cited a series of experiments the physicists conducted in 1984 and 1985 that proved two principles of quantum mechanics on a scale visible to the human eye: “quantum mechanical tunnelling” and “energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

Chemistry

Experiments that began in the 1980s and developed over the ensuing 15 years, the scientists developed frameworks using metals and organic molecules that contained cavities large enough for gases and other materials to flow through.

Medicine

The researchers' work that won the Nobel Prize in Medicine started in 1995 with Shimon Sakaguchi's initial discovery of regulatory T cells. This was followed by a key breakthrough in 2001 by Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell who identified a related gene mutation, before Sakaguchi linked all the work together in 2003.

Literature

Krasznahorkai’s first novel Sátántangó, published in 1985 (Satantango, 2012), which was a literary sensation in Hungary and the author’s breakthrough work

Economics

The 2025 Nobel laureates in economics began working on their award-winning research decades ago, with Joel Mokyr starting his economic history studies in the early 1970s and Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt publishing their landmark "creative destruction" model in a 1992 paper

One common thread runs underneath all these great works - Perseverance