2019

The Nobel Prize
in Physics

Didier Queloz
Michel Mayor

"for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star"

James Peebles

"for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology"

The Nobel Prize
in Chemistry

Akira Yoshino
M. Stanley Whittingham
John B. Goodenough

"for the development of lithium-ion batteries"

The Nobel
Peace Prize

Abiy Ahmed Ali

"for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea"

The Nobel Prize
in Literature

Peter Handke

"for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience"

The Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine

Gregg L. Semenza
Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe
William G. Kaelin Jr

"for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2019

Michael Kremer
Esther Duflo
Abhijit Banerjee

"for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty"

2017

The Nobel Prize
in Physics

Rainer Weiss
Barry C. Barish
Kip S. Thorne

"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"

The Nobel Prize
in Chemistry

Jacques Dubochet
Joachim Frank
Richard Henderson

"for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"

The Nobel
Peace Prize

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

"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 Nobel Prize
in Literature

Kazuo Ishiguro

Prize motivation: "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"

The Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine

Jeffrey C. Hall
Michael Rosbash
Michael W. Young

"for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017

Richard H. Thaler

"for his contributions to behavioural economics"