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.

Noble Prize In : Chemistry
1st Awarded	Awarded in 2017	Awarded in 2018
Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff for the discovery of laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions	Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution	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
Prize Money: 9 Million SEK( Swedish krona )
Noble Prize In : Physics
1st Awarded	Awarded in 2017	Awarded in 2018
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen- for the discovery of the remarkable rays	Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for contribution to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves	Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses
Prize Money: 9 Million SEK( Swedish krona )
Noble Prize In : Medicine
1st Awarded	Awarded in 2017	Awarded in 2018
Emil Adolf von Behring- for his work on serum therapy	Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm	James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation
Prize Money: 9 Million SEK( Swedish krona )
Noble Prize In : Peace
1st Awarded	Awarded in 2017	Awarded in 2018
Jean Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy for his role in founding the International Red Cross Movement and initiating the Geneva Convention	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons	Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict
Prize Money: 9 Million SEK( Swedish krona )
Noble Prize In : Economic Sciences
1st Awarded	Awarded in 2017	Awarded in 2018
Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes	Richard H. Thaler for his contribution to behavioural economics	To be Announced
Prize Money: 9 Million SEK( Swedish krona )
Noble Prize In : Literature
1st Awarded	Awarded in 2017	Awarded in 2018
Sully Prudhomme for his poetic composition	Kazuo Ishiguro for his novels of great emotional force	To be Announced
Prize Money: 9 Million SEK( Swedish krona )