List of Nobel Prize Winners, 2019
Nobel Prize in Physics 2019:
James Peebles,
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a
solar-type star”.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019:
John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the
development of lithium-ion batteries”.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019:
William
G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their
discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability”.
Nobel Prize in Literature 2019:
Peter Handke
”for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the
periphery and the specificity of human experience”.
Nobel Peace Prize 2019:
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”.
Prize in Economic
Sciences 2019:
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael
Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”.
Nobel Prize in Literature 2018:
Olga Tokarczuk
“for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the
crossing of boundaries as a form of life”.
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