The tight race for the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will announce the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics at 11:45 a.m. on October 7, Swedish time, or 4:45 p.m. Vietnam time.

The selection process is secret and the identity of the Nobel Prize winner remains secret until the announcement.

However, before the winner was announced, scientists and physics enthusiasts had made predictions about the research field that would win the prestigious award.

Cuộc đua gay cấn giành Giải Nobel Vật lý năm 2025 - 1 — The identity and research work that will be honored with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics remains a mystery (Photo: Shutterstock).

According to predictions by the British science magazine Physics World , this year's Nobel Prize in Physics will likely be awarded for research on quantum information or metamaterials.

Physics World said the reason for making this prediction was because last year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John J. Hopfield (Princeton University, USA) and Geoffrey E. Hinton (University of Toronto, Canada), for discoveries and inventions contributing to the development of artificial intelligence.

Therefore, it is likely that this year's Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded for research on quantum information and algorithms.

Much pioneering work in this field has been done in the past few decades and has led to results with quantum computers and autoencoders. Therefore, Physics World believes that this is the right time to award the Nobel Prize in Physics to research in this field.

Physics World also predicts that a research work in the field of metamaterials will be awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. The last time a research work in this field won a Nobel Prize was in 2016.

According to Physics World, there has been a lot of interesting and important research in the field of metamaterials (materials created to have specific properties, especially in how they interact with light or sound) in recent times, so it is understandable if this year's Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to such a research work.

Another field of research that has long been denied a Nobel Prize in Physics is nuclear and particle physics. The last time a work in this field received a Nobel Prize in Physics was 10 years ago.

However, Physics World believes that in recent years there has been no groundbreaking research in the field of nuclear and elementary particle physics, so it is difficult to find a research project worthy of winning the award.

Of course, all information is still at the level of speculation. The real identity of the scientist and the research work that won the Nobel Prize in Physics will be officially announced this afternoon (Vietnam time).

The Nobel Prizes were established in 1901, based on the will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel (1833-1896). The first prizes were awarded in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace . The Economics Prize was added in 1969.

Each Nobel Prize is worth about 11 million Swedish krona (equivalent to 1.17 million USD) and can be divided among up to three recipients. The Nobel Prize is not awarded to deceased people.

The United States is the country with the largest number of Nobel Prize winners, mainly in scientific fields such as Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Economics.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/khoa-hoc/cuoc-dua-gay-can-gianh-giai-nobel-vat-ly-nam-2025-20251007122548264.htm