Awards & Winners

2009 Nobel Prize

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Nobel Peace Prize

Barack Obama

(for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples)

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, Jack W. Szostak

(for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase)
Nobel Prize in Physics

Charles K. Kao

(for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication)
Nobel Prize in Physics

George E. Smith, Willard Boyle

(for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit - the CCD sensor)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Ada Yonath, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz

(for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Elinor Ostrom

(for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons)
Nobel Prize in Literature

Herta Müller

(who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed)
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

Oliver E. Williamson

(for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm)