Nobel Prize Winner - 2012| Winner's Name | Field | Country | Work | | Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland | Physics | France, USA | For ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems. | | Mo Yan | Literature | China | Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". | | Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka | Chemistry | Both are from USA | For studies of G-protein-coupled receptors | | Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka | Medicine | UK, Japan | For the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent. | | Nobel Peace Prize 2012 | Peace | Europe | The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 was awarded to European Union EU) "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in
Europe". | | Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley | Economics | Both are from USA | For the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design. |
Nobel Prize Winner - 2011| Winner's Name | Field | Country | Work | Saul Perlmutter
Brian P. Schmidt
Adam G. Riess | Physics | USA
Australia
USA | For the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae. | | Dan Shechtman | Chemistry | Israel | For the discovery of quasicrystals. | Bruce A. Beutler
Jules A. Hoffmann
Ralph M. Steinman | Medicine | USA
Luxembourg
Canada | For their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity" and the other half to Ralph M. Steinman "for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity. | | Tomas Tranströmer | Literature | Sweden | Because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality. | Thomas J. Sargent
Christopher A. Sims | Economics | USA
USA | For their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy. | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Leymah Gbowee
Tawakkul Karman | Peace | Liberia
Liberia
Yemen | For their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work. |
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. |
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