Nobel Peace Prize
Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkol Karman, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf(for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work) |
Nobel Prize in Literature
Tomas Tranströmer(because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality) |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Thomas J. Sargent, Christopher A. Sims(for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy) |
Nobel Prize in Physics
Adam Riess, Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt(for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae) |
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Dan Shechtman(for the discovery of quasicrystals) |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Jules A. Hoffmann, Bruce Beutler(for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity) |
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Ralph M. Steinman(for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity) |
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