2025 Nobel Prize in Physics: Date, Time, and Possible Winners

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the winner(s) of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday, October 7th. It will be at 11:45 a.m. Spanish time.

Last year's winners were John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton, pioneers of artificial intelligenceThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized their contribution to laying the foundations for machine learning through artificial neurons, one of the foundations of artificial intelligence. The laureates' discoveries, inspired by the nervous system and the learning process of the human brain, have led to one of the technological tools with the greatest potential for automating large amounts of data.

The prize is worth 11 million Swedish kronor (about 934,243 euros), following the guidelines that the prize's creator, Alfred Nobel, left in writing in 1895, a year before his death. At that time, he set the prize at 31 million Swedish kronor, a figure that has evolved with the fluctuation in the value of the currency. The first Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays. Since then, there have been 222 researchers awarded the prize, of whom only four are women: Marie Curie, Maria Goepert-Mayer, Donna Strickland, and Andrea Ghez.