List of Nobel Prize Winners

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Nobel Prize award was first conferred in 1901. It is based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel who was a chemist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. Here’s the list of Laureates who received Nobel Prize in the year 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016.Nobel Prize is given at an international level which is administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. It is awarded for outstanding contributions in several categories including chemistry, literature, peace, physics, physiology or medicine and economic sciences. The will of Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel established five Nobel prizes in 1895. The prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine were first awarded in 1901.A person or organisation who is awarded the Nobel Prize is known as Nobel Laureate. The word “laureate” refers as a laurel wreath. In ancient Greece, it refers to a sign of honour. In this blog we will discuss about List of Nobel Prize Winners 2020.

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List of Nobel Prize Winners 2020

List of Nobel Prizes Winners 2020
Nobel Prize Winners	Field	Contribution
Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice	Medicine	Discovered Hepatitis C virus
Roger Penrose	Physics	Discovered that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity
Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez	Physics	Discovered supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna	Chemistry	Discovered the method for genome editing
Louise Glück	Literature	For her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal
World Food Programme (WFP)	Peace	For its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.
Paul R. Milgrom, Robert B. Wilson	Economic Sciences	For improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.

Nobel Prizes and Laureates 2019
Nobel Laureates	Field	Contribution
William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza	Physiology or Medicine	Discovered how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz	Physics	James Peebles: theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology And Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino	Chemistry	Discovered the development of lithium-ion batteries.
Peter Handke	Literature	Discovered an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.
Abiy Ahmed Ali	Peace	For his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer	Economic Sciences	For their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.

Nobel Prizes and Laureates 2018
Nobel Laureates	Field	Contribution
James P. Allison (USA), Tasuku Honjo Japan)	Physiology or Medicine	Discovered the therapy of cancer by inhibition of negative immune regulation.
Gerard Mourou (France), Arthur Ashkin (USA), Donna Strickland (Canada)	Physics	For generating groundbreaking tools for beams of light.
George Smith (USA), Frances Arnold (USA), Greg Winter (UK)	Chemistry	To develop protein, they have used evolutionary principles that will be helpful in new drugs and medical treatments.
This year no Nobel Prize for Literature	Literature	This year no Nobel Prize for Literature
Denis Mukwege (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Nadia Murad (Germany)	Peace	For their tremendous work in helping the victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
William Nordhaus (USA) Paul Romer(US)	Economic Sciences	For integrating innovation and climate with economic growth.

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Nobel Prizes and Laureates 2017
Nobel Laureates	Field	Contribution
Rainer Weiss Barry C. Barish Kip S. Thorne	Physics	For constructing Ligo and detection of gravitational waves.
Jacques Dubochet Joachim Frank Richard Henderson	Chemistry	For developing cryoelectron microscopy
Jeffrey C. Hall Michael Rosbash Michael W. Young	Physiology or Medicine	For generating molecular mechanisms that control the circadian rhythm.
Kazuo Ishiguro	Literature	For the novel “The Remains of the Day”.
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)	Peace	To draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for a treaty base on prohibition of such weapons.
Richard H. Thaler	Economic Sciences	For his great contribution to behavioural economics

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Nobel Prizes and Laureates 2016
Nobel Laureates	Field	Contribution
F. Duncan M. Haldane J. Michael Kosterlitz	Physics	For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
Jean-Pierre Sauvage Sir J. Fraser Stoddart Bernard L. Feringa	Chemistry	For designing and synthesising molecular machines
Yoshinori Ohsumi	Physiology or Medicine	For discovering the mechanisms for autophagy.
Bob Dylan	Literature	For creating new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition
Juan Manuel Santos	Peace	For his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end
Oliver Hart Bengt Holmström	Economic Sciences	For providing contributions to contract theory

Facts about Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize in the field of Physics and Chemistry is given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize is given in the field of Economic Sciences.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute.
In Literature, the Swedish Academy grants the Nobel Prize.
The Nobel Prize in the field of Peace is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee

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