Awards & Winners

2008 Nobel Prize

Check winners and nominees of 2008 Nobel Prize. Check awards winners of 2008 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony and 2008 Nobel Prize Ceremony. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

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Nobel Peace Prize

Martti Ahtisaari

(for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts)

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Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Paul Krugman

(for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity)
Nobel Prize in Literature

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

(author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Roger Y. Tsien, Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie

(for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP)
Nobel Prize in Physics

Yoichiro Nambu

(for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics)
Nobel Prize in Physics

Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa

(for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Harald zur Hausen

(for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer)
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Luc Montagnier, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

(for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus)