Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

One of the issues discussed at the regular meeting of the Presidium of ANAS was about “2024 Nobel Prize and Laureates: World Science Priorities and the Tasks of Azerbaijani Science”.

Speaking on the matter, Academician Isa Habibbeyli underlined that in November of last year, a conference titled “The Lessons of the Path leading to the Nobel Prize: Myths, Realities, Achievements, and Challenges” was held at ANAS with the participation of prominent scientists and intellectuals. The main goal of the conference was to convey the experiences, contradictions, and coincidences encountered on the path leading to the Nobel Prize to the Azerbaijani scientific community, thus instilling a sense of self-confidence in Nobel Prize contenders in our country. Another key objective was to direct Azerbaijani science, including the research conducted at ANAS, towards priority scientific directions.

Academician Isa Habibbeyli also said that, as part of the ongoing works in this direction, meetings with Nobel Prize laureates Aziz Sancar and Mahammad Yunus were held at ANAS. He pointed out that the next report will be presented at the meeting of the Presidium to study the scientific directions of 2024 Nobel Prize laureates and to direct the research areas of our scientists towards these fields.

Then, the Vice President of ANAS, Academician Dilgam Taghiyev, presented a report titled “2024 Nobel Prize and Laureates: World Science Priorities and the Tasks of Azerbaijani Science”.

The Academician underlined that the names of the Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology and Medicine were announced on October 7. According to the decision of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was awarded to American scientists, Professor Victor Ambros of the University of Massachusetts Medical School and researcher Gary Ruvkun of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.  John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.   

Academician Dilgam Taghiyev added that the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to three scientists—David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper—for their studies on proteins. David Baker received the award for computational protein design, while Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for protein structure prediction. The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to South Korean author Han Kang for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.

The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Nihon Hidankyo, an organization of Atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons. The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to Professor Daron Acemoglu, Professor Simon Johnson, and Professor James Robinson for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.

In his report, Academician Dilgam Taghiyev provided detailed information about the research conducted by each of the scientists awarded the Nobel Prize and highlighted the necessity of organizing seminars and roundtable discussions on relevant scientific topics. 

Then, Academicians Arif Hashimov, Rasim Aliguliyev, and Irada Huseynova provided information about the research conducted in the scientific research institutes they lead on the scientific directions that have been awarded the Nobel Prize.

Academician Isa Habibbeyli underlined the importance of continuing works in this area to break the myths in the path leading to the Nobel Prize.

A relevant decision was made by the Presidium of ANAS regarding the mentioned issue, and it was decided to publish the report in the “Elm” (“Science”) newspaper and “Elm və həyat” (“Science and Life”) journal of ANAS.

Reyhan Majidli, Public Relations, Press and Information Department of the Presidium Administration of ANAS

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