The Nobel Prize 2016

The Nobel Prize 2016

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The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed on “those who conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics.

Nobel Prize in Physics 2016

• David J. Thouless – Origin – Bearsden, United Kingdom
• F. Duncan M. Haldane – Origin – London, United Kingdom
• J. Michael Kosterlitz – Origin – Aberdeen, United Kingdom

For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016

• Jean-Pierre Sauvage – Origin – Paris, France
• Sir J. Fraser Stoddart – Origin – Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Bernard L. Feringa – Origin – Barger-Compascuum, Netherlands

For the design and synthesis of molecular machines

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016

• Yoshinori Ohsumi – Origin – Japan

For his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy

Nobel Prize in Literature 2016

• Bob Dylan – USA

For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition

Nobel Peace Prize 2016

• Juan Manuel Santos – Origin – Bogotá, Colombia

For his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016

• Oliver Hart – Origin – London, United Kingdom
• Bengt Holmström – Origin – Helsinki, Finland

For their contributions to contract theory