NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS – 2018
Dear Friends,
The Nobel Prizes are given every year in October to those who have most benefited mankind in one of six fields: peace, literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, and economics. For each prize, 9 million Swedish kronas (equal to a million US dollars or two metric tons of silver) is split among the winners.
Here is the complete list of all winners.
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Noble Prize In : Chemistry
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1st Awarded
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Awarded in 2017
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Awarded in 2018
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Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff
for the discovery of laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions
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Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson
for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution
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Frances H. Arnold – for the directed evolution of enzymes
George P. Smith and Sir Gregory P. Winter – for the phage display of peptides and antibodies
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Prize Money: 9 Million SEK( Swedish krona )
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Noble Prize In : Physics
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1st Awarded
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Awarded in 2017
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Awarded in 2018
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Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen-
for the discovery of the remarkable rays
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Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne
for contribution to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
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Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland
for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses
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Prize Money: 9 Million SEK( Swedish krona )
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Noble Prize In : Medicine
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1st Awarded
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Awarded in 2017
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Awarded in 2018
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Emil Adolf von Behring-
for his work on serum therapy
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Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young
for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
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James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo
for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation
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Prize Money: 9 Million SEK( Swedish krona )
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Noble Prize In : Peace
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1st Awarded
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Awarded in 2017
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Awarded in 2018
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Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy
for his role in founding the International Red Cross Movement and initiating the Geneva Convention
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International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons
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Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad
for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict
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Prize Money: 9 Million SEK( Swedish krona )
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Noble Prize In : Economic Sciences
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1st Awarded
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Awarded in 2017
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Awarded in 2018
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Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen
for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes
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Richard H. Thaler
for his contribution to behavioural economics
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To be Announced
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Prize Money: 9 Million SEK( Swedish krona )
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Noble Prize In : Literature
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1st Awarded
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Awarded in 2017
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Awarded in 2018
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Sully Prudhomme
for his poetic composition
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Kazuo Ishiguro
for his novels of great emotional force
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To be Announced
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Prize Money: 9 Million SEK( Swedish krona )
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