Nobel Prizes 2017
Chemistry
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jacques Dubochet
"for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
Joachim Frank
"for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
Richard Henderson
"for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
Economic Sciences
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Richard H. Thaler
"for his contributions to behavioural economics"
Literature
- The Nobel Prize in Literature
Kazuo Ishiguro
"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"
Peace
- The Nobel Peace Prize
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"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"
Physics
- The Nobel Prize in Physics
Rainer Weiss
"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
Barry C. Barish
"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
Kip S. Thorne
"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"
Physiology or Medicine
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Jeffrey C. Hall
"for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"
Michael Rosbash
"for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"
Michael W. Young
"for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"