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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 | ||||||||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||||||
Gerhard Ertl | Chemistry | Germany | Whose studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces have affected agriculture, manufacturing and environmental science | ||||||||||||||||||
Nobel Prize Winner - 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Winner's Name | Field | Country | Work | ||||||||||||||||||
Muhammad Yunus | Peace | Bangladesh | For pioneering work in giving tiny loans to millions of poor people no commercial bank would touch — destitute widows and abandoned wives, landless laborers and rickshaw drivers, sweepers and beggars. | ||||||||||||||||||
Edmund S. Phelps | Economics | USA | For his contribution to a sophisticated explanation of how wages, unemployment and inflation interact with one another. | ||||||||||||||||||
Orhan Pamuk | Literature | Turkey | Whose exquisitely constructed, wistful prose explores the agonized dance between Muslims and the West and between past and present | ||||||||||||||||||
Andrew Z. Fire Craig C. Mello | Medicine | USA | A far-reaching discovery about how genes are controlled within living cells | ||||||||||||||||||
John C. Mather George F. Smoot | Physics | USA | To uncovered evidence on the origin of the universe and how it grew into galaxies | ||||||||||||||||||
Roger D. Kornberg | Chemistry | USA | For showing how genes convey their messages in cells to copy functions like making proteins. |
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