Nobel Prizes 2019
Abiy Ahmed Ali
–The Nobel Peace Prize 2019
-Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
-Prize motivation: “for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.”
James Peebles ( Canada)
–The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
-Affiliation at the time of the award: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
-Prize motivation: “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.”
Michel Mayor ( Lausanne, Switzerland )
–The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
-Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
-Prize motivation: “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”
William G. Kaelin Jr
–The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019
–Affiliation at the time of the award: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical, Boston, MA, USA
–Prize motivation: “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
Peter Handke
–The Nobel Prize in Literature 2019
–Residence at the time of the award: Chaville, France
-Prize motivation: “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”
Gregg L. Semenza
–The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019
-Affiliation at the time of the award: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
–Prize motivation: “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
John B. Goodenough
–The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019
–Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
–Prize motivation: “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.”
Stanley Whittingham
–The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019
–Affiliation at the time of the award: Binghamton University, State University of New York, New York, NY, USA
–Prize motivation: “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.”
Akira Yoshino
–The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019
–Affiliation at the time of the award: Meijo University, Nagoya, Japan, Asahi Kasei Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
–Prize motivation: “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.”
Abhijit Banerjee
–The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019
–Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
–Prize motivation: “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
Esther Duflo
–The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019
–Affiliation at the time of the award: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
–Prize motivation: “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
Didier Queloz
–The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
–Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
–Prize motivation: “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”
Michael Kremer
–The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019
–Affiliation at the time of the award: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
–Prize motivation: “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe
–The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019
–Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
–Prize motivation: “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”