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Nobel Prize Winner


Nobel Prize Winner - 2010

Winner's Name

Field

Country

Work

Konstantin Novoselov
Andre Geim

Physics

Russia

For groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.

Liu Xiaobo

Peace

China

The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".

Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature

Peru

For his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.

Robert G. Edwards

Medicine

UK

For the development of in vitro fertilization.

Richard F. Heck
Ei-ichi Negishi
Akira Suzuki

Chemistry

USA
USA
Japan

For palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.

Peter A. Diamond
Dale T. Mortensen
Christopher A. Pissarides

Economics

USA
USA
UK

For their analysis of markets with search frictions.

Nobel Prize Winner - 2009

Winner's Name

Field

Country

Work

Elizabeth Blackburn
Carol Greider
Jack Szostak

Medicine

USA

For the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.

Charles K. Kao
Willard S. Boyle
George E. Smith

Physics

USA

For groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication. And the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor.

V. Ramakrishnan
Thomas A. Steitz
Ada E. Yonath

Chemistry

UK
USA
Israel

For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome

Barack Obama

Peace

USA

For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.

Herta Müller

Literature

Germany

For the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.

Elinor Ostrom
Oliver E. Williamson

Economics

USA

For her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.
For his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm.

Nobel Prize Winner - 2008

Winner's Name

Field

Country

Work

Martti A

Peace

Finland

Who has worked to end conflicts in troubled spots around the world for more than three decades.

Paul Krugman

Economics

USA

For his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Literature

France

Whose work reflects a seemingly insatiable restlessness and sense of wonder about other places and other cultures.

Harald zur Hausen
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
Luc Montagnier

Medicine

Germany
France
France

His discovery led to the development of two vaccines against cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among women.
The viral discovery has also led to an understanding of the natural history of H.I.V. infection in people, which ultimately leads to AIDS and death unless treated.

Yoichiro Nambu
Makoto Kobayashi
Toshihide Maskawa

Physics

USA
Japan
Japan

For their work exploring the hidden symmetries among elementary particles that are the deepest constituents of nature.

Osamu Shimomura
Martin Chalfie
Roger Y. Tsien

Chemistry

Japan
USA
USA

For taking the ability of some jellyfish to glow green and transforming it into a ubiquitous tool of molecular biology to watch the dance of living cells and the proteins within them.

Nobel Prize Winner - 2007

Winner's Name

Field

Country

Work

Al Gore
R. K. Pachuri

Peace

USA
India

For their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change.

Leonid Hurwicz
Eric S. Maskin
Roger B. Myerson

Economics

USA

For their work in mechanism design theory, a branch of economics that looks at the design of institutions in situations where markets do not work properly.

Doris Lessing

Literature

UK

Whose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and reflects her engagement with the social and political issues of her time.

Gerhard Ertl

Chemistry

Germany

Whose studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces have affected agriculture, manufacturing and environmental science.

Mario R. Capecchi
Oliver Smithies
Martin J. Evans

Medicine

USA
USA
UK

For developing the immensely powerful “knockout” technology that allows scientists to create animal models of human disease in mice.

Albert Fert
Peter Grünberg

Physics

France
Germany

They have discovered how to manipulate the magnetic and electrical properties of thin layers of atoms to store vast amounts of data on tiny disks, making iPods and other wonders of modern life possible.

Nobel Personalities in India


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