2026Abel Prize: Gerd FaltingsFor introducing powerful tools in arithmetic geometry and resolving long standing Diophantine conjectures of Mordell and Lang
2026Academy Award for Best Picture: Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas AndersonOne Battle After Another (2025 film, 98th Academy Awards)
2026Ballon d'Or: Harry KaneMen's Ballon d'Or, playing for Bayern Munich. Ceremony held in London on 26 October 2026
2026Fields Medal: Yu DengWork on partial differential equations, including a rigorous derivation of the Boltzmann equation
2026Fields Medal: John PardonSymplectic geometry, including new approaches to virtual fundamental cycles
2026Fields Medal: Jacob TsimermanDeveloping o-minimality as a method in arithmetic and complex algebraic geometry
2026Fields Medal: Hong WangHarmonic analysis and geometric measure theory, including advances on the Kakeya problem in three dimensions
2026Nobel Peace Prize: Navanethem "Navi" PillayEfforts that the committee said promoted international law, as reported by AP. Al Jazeera quoted the committee saying international law "is an absolute necessity"
2026Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Henri B. Kagan, Kenso SoaiThe official motivation, as quoted by Il Sole 24 Ore, is "for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis"
2026Nobel Prize in Literature: Anne CarsonHer "bold and inventive oeuvre" in "playful dialogue with the classical tradition", as quoted by Al Jazeera from the Swedish Academy
2026Nobel Prize in Physics: Francis HalzenWork on a rare group of high energy neutrinos and a central role in building the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, as reported by AP and Al Jazeera
2026Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann, Georg NagelWork that led to optogenetics. Al Jazeera quoted the Nobel Assembly as citing "their discovery of a molecular switch for nerve cells", and AP described a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works