Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2020
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020 to Paul R. Milgrom Stanford University, USA…
The Nobel Peace Prize 2020
The Nobel Peace Prize 2020 was awarded to World Food Programme (WFP) “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and…
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2020 is awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. Bibliographical notes…
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 to Emmanuelle CharpentierMax Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin, Germany Jennifer A. DoudnaUniversity…
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 with one half to Roger Penrose University of Oxford, UK “for the discovery that…
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 was awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus.” SUMMARY This…
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 with one half to Rainer Weiss LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration and the other half jointly to…
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 was awarded to Bob Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. Biobibliographical Notes Bob Dylan was born…
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 to Jean-Pierre SauvageUniversity of Strasbourg, France Sir J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University, Evanston, IL,…
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Yoshinori Ohsumi ”for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy” Summary This year’s Nobel Laureate discovered and elucidated mechanisms underlying autophagy, a fundamental…