Overview
- The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters publicly named the 2026 Kavli Prize laureates across astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience on June 10, 2026.
- The Kavli Prize in Astrophysics went to Vasily Belokurov, Amina Helmi and Rodrigo Ibata for mapping stellar motions that provide fossil evidence the Milky Way grew by swallowing smaller galaxies, a process known as hierarchical accretion.
- The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience was awarded to Eva Y. Andrei, Pablo Jarillo‑Herrero and Allan H. MacDonald for founding Twistronics, the technique of rotating stacked atomic layers to induce new electronic behaviors such as superconductivity.
- The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience honored Christine Holt, Kelsey Martin, Erin Schuman and Oswald Steward for discovering local protein translation at neuronal synapses and showing that on‑site protein production underlies brain development, learning and plasticity.
- Each field’s laureates will share a $1 million prize and will receive the awards at a ceremony in Oslo in September, with winners chosen by independent committees and the 2026 cohort including five U.S.-based scientists among ten honorees.