Nobel Prizes 2020
Chemistry
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Emmanuelle Charpentier
"for the development of a method for genome editing"
Jennifer A. Doudna
"for the development of a method for genome editing"
Economic Sciences
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Paul R. Milgrom
"for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats"
Robert B. Wilson
"for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats"
Literature
- The Nobel Prize in Literature
Louise Glück
"for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal"
Peace
- The Nobel Peace Prize
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"for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict"
Physics
- The Nobel Prize in Physics
Roger Penrose
"for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity"
Reinhard Genzel
"for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy"
Andrea Ghez
"for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy"
Physiology or Medicine
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Harvey J. Alter
"for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus"
Michael Houghton
"for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus"
Charles M. Rice
"for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus"