Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates
| Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates 2017 | ||||
| Nobel Laureates | Field | Contribution | ||
| Rainer Weiss
Barry C. Barish Kip S. Thorne |
Physics | For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves | ||
| Jacques Dubochet
Joachim Frank Richard Henderson |
Chemistry | “For developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”. | ||
| Jeffrey C. Hall
Michael Rosbash Michael W. Young |
Physiology or Medicine | “For their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm”. | ||
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Literature | “Who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. | ||
| International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) | Peace | “For its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons”. | ||
| Richard H. Thaler | Economic Sciences | “For his contributions to behavioural economics”. | ||
| Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates 2016 | ||||
| Nobel Laureates | Field | Contribution | ||
| F. Duncan
M. Haldane J. Michael Kosterlitz |
Physics | For the theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter” | ||
| Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart Bernard L. Feringa |
Chemistry | For the design and synthesis of molecular machines | ||
| Yoshinori Ohsumi | Physiology or Medicine | For the discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy | ||
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Bob Dylan |
Literature | For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition | ||
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Juan Manuel Santos |
Peace | For his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end | ||
| Oliver Hart
Bengt Holmström |
Economic Sciences | For their contributions to contract theory | ||
