Congratulations to the 2026 Nobel Prize Laureates
London | Berlin | New York | 14th October 2026
Springer Nature extends its warmest congratulations to this year's Nobel Prizes winners, celebrating their exceptional research and contributions that have shaped knowledge and their respective fields.
- Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel, Physiology or Medicine
- Francis Halzen, Physics
- Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai, Chemistry
- Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford, recipients of The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
We are proud to have published work from all these distinguished researchers across our books and journals.
Examples include Physiology or Medicine laureates Karl Deisseroth and Georg Nagel’s joint article, ‘Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity’, published in Nature Neuroscience and highlighted in the Nobel Committee’s announcement as a key publication. Together with Peter Hegemann, this year's Physiology or Medicine winners have published a number of works across multiple Nature journals.
Further examples include work by Physics laureate Francis Halzen in Nature Physics; Chemistry laureates Kenso Soai and Henri B. Kagan in Nature and Fundamental and Technological Aspects of Organo-f-Element Chemistry; and Economics laureates Michael Woodford and Robert E. Hall in The Science and Practice of Monetary Policy Today and Value and Capital: Fifty Years Later.
These examples represent just a small selection of the many contributions by this year’s Nobel Prize laureates across Springer Nature. To honour the laureates, we have created a dedicated landing page bringing together their work from across our journals and books, providing a broader showcase of their research and scholarship. Readers can also explore dedicated collections for Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economic Sciences.
Daniela Kaltenborn | External Communications | daniela.kaltenborn@springernature.com
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