Sweden's king on Wednesday presented the 2025 Nobel Prizes to the laureates in the fields of medicine, economics, physics, chemistry and literature.

The award ceremony in Stockholm coincided with the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, the wealthy Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite who founded the prizes.

Writer László Krasznahorkai was presented with the literature award for his surreal and anarchic novels that combine a bleak world view with mordant humor.

The 71-year-old is the first Hungarian winner of the Nobel literature prize since 2002.

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi were presented with the medicine award for their discoveries about how the body ensures immune cells attack intruders but not our own tissues.

Brunkow, 64, is now a senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, while Ramsdell, 64, is a scientific adviser for San Francisco-based Sonoma Biotherapeutics.

Sakaguchi, 74, is a distinguished professor at the Immunology Frontier Research Center at Osaka University in Japan.

Also receiving their awards were Dutch-born Joel Mokyr from Northwestern University; Philippe Aghion from the Collège de France and the London School of Economics; and Canadian-born Peter Howitt from Brown University.

The trio, who probed the business innovation process, won the economics prize for explaining how new products and inventions promote economic growth and human welfare, even as they leave older firms in the dust.

Another trio, Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi, were presented with the chemistry award for their development of new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside.

Their work lays the groundwork to potentially suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere or harvest moisture from desert environments.

Robson, 88, is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia, whie Kitagawa, 74, is with Japan’s Kyoto University, and Yaghi, 60, is with the University of California, Berkeley.

The physics award was presented to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis, who won for their research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling.

It enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers.

Clarke, 83, conducted his research at the University of California, Berkeley. Martinis, 67, worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Devoret, 72, is at Yale and also at the University of California, Santa Barbara.