THE NOBLE PRIZE WINNERS LIST 2017
The Nobel Prize In Physics 2017
Rainer Weiss (Germany), Barry C. Barish (USA) and Kip S. Thorne (USA)
“for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”
The Nobel Prize In Chemistry 2017
Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland), Joachim Frank (Germany) and Richard Henderson (Scotland)
“for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”
The Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine 2017
Jeffrey C. Hall (USA), Michael Rosbash (USA) and Michael W. Young (USA)
“for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm”
The Nobel Prize In Literature 2017
Kazuo Ishiguro (JAPAN)
“who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”
The Nobel Peace Prize 2017
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) (Founded in Australia)
“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”
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize In Economic Sciences In Memory Of Alfred Nobel 2017
Richard H. Thaler (USA)
“for his contributions to behavioural economics”
