Nobel Peace Prize
Aung San Suu Kyi(for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights) |
Nobel Prize in Literature
Nadine Gordimer(who through her magnificent epic writing has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity) |
Nobel Prize in Physics
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes(for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers) |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Ronald Coase(for his discovery and clarification of the significance of transaction costs and property rights for the institutional structure and functioning of the economy) |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann(for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells) |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Richard R. Ernst(for his contributions to the development of the methodology of high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy) |
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