Awards & Winners

2011 Nobel Prize

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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)

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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)