Recipients of Nobel Prizes 2016
1. Nobel Prize in Physics
David J. Thouless
is from Scotland and affiliated to University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
F. Duncan M. Haldane
is from England and affiliated to Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
J. Michael Kosterlitz
is a British-born American professor at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
For: Theoretical discoveries topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
2. Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
University of Strasbourg, France.
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Bernard L. Feringa
University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
For: Design and synthesis of molecular machines.
3. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Yoshinori Ohsumi
A Japanese cell biologist,the professor is currently at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
For: Discoveries of mechanisms for Autophagy.
4. Nobel Prize in Literarture
Bob Dylan
An American singer- songwriter
For: Having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.
5. Nobel Peace Prize
Juan Manuel Santos
President of Columbia since 7 August 2010.
For: His resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end.
6. Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Oliver Hart
A British-American economist ,United Kingdom of
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
Bengt Holmstrom
is from Finland and affiliated to Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For: Contribution to contract theory.
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