Thursday 13 October 2016

Nobel Prize 2016


The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 (Announced: Oct 03, 2016)


***Yoshinori Ohsumi (Japanese)***


[[For his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy]]


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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 (Announced: Oct 04, 2016)

***David Thouless (Scottish and American), Duncan Haldane (British) and Michael Kosterlitz (Scottish)***

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



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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 (Announced: Oct 05, 2016)

***Jean-Pierre Sauvage (French), Sir J. Fraser Stoddart (Scottish) and Bernard L. Feringa (Dutch)***

[[For the design and synthesis of molecular machines]]



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The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 (Announced: Oct 07, 2016)

***Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos***

[[For his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50 year long civil war to an end]]



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The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016 ((Announced: Oct 10, 2016)


***Awarded jointly to "Oliver Hart" (British) and "Bengt Holmström" (Finnish)***



[[For their contributions to contract theory]]




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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016 (Announced: Oct 13, 2016)

***Awarded to Bob Dylan (USA)***

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