Category
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Edition
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Winner(s)
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Work/Contribution
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| Physiology & Medicine
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Micheal Houghton, Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice |
for his contributions to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. |
| Physics
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Roger Penrose (UK), Reinhard Genzel (Germany) and Andrea Ghez (America) |
for his discovery that black hole formation is resilient of the general theory of relativity. for their discovery of supermassive compact objects at the centre of our galaxy. |
| Chemistry
|
-- |
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna |
for their development of a method for genome editing. |
| Literature
|
-- |
Louise Gluck (American Poet) |
‘for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal’. |
| Peace |
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World Food Programme |
"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." |
| Economic Science |
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Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B Wilson |
for ‘improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. |
