Nobel Prize 2017

Field Recipients Country Awarded for

Physics Rainer Weiss USA/Germany For decisive contributions to the
LIGO(Laser Interferometer
Barry C. Barish USA
Gravitational-Wave Observatory)
Kip S. Thorne USA detector and the observation of
gravitational waves.
Chemistry Jacques Dubochet Switzerland For developing cryo-electron
microscopy for the high-resolution
Joachim Frank Germany/USA
structure determination of
Richard United biomolecules in solution.
Henderson Kingdom
Medicine / Jeffrey C. Hall USA For their discoveries of molecular
Physiology mechanisms controlling the circadian
Michael Rosbash USA
rhythm.
Michael W. Young USA
Economics Richard Thaler USA For his contributions to behavioural
economics.
Peace International Geneva, For its work to draw attention to the
Campaign to Switzerland catastrophic humanitarian

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Abolish Nuclear consequences of any use of nuclear
Weapons weapons and for its ground-breaking
efforts to achieve a treaty-based
prohibition of such weapons.
Literature Kazuo Ishiguro United For uncovering the abyss beneath
Kingdom the illusory sense of connection with
the world in his novels of great
emotional force.

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