NOBEL PRIZE 2017
The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural or scientific advances.
Awarded for - Outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physics, or physiology or medicine. Often confused with Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Country - Sweden (all prizes except the Peace Prize)
Norway (Peace Prize only)
Presented by- Swedish Academy Nobel committee of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Nobel committee of Karolinska Institutet
Norwegian Nobel Committee
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S.NO
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FIELD
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WINNER
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DESCRIPTION
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1.
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Physics
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Rainer Weiss (USA),
Barry C. Barish (USA) and Kip S. Thorne (USA)
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for decisive
contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
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2.
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Chemistry
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Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland),
Joachim Frank (USA) and Richard Henderson (Scotland)
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for developing
cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of
biomolecules in solution
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3.
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Physiology or Medicine
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Jeffrey C. Hall(USA),
Michael Rosbash (USA)and Michael W. Young(USA)
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for their discoveries
of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
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4.
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Literature
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Kazuo Ishiguro
(Britain)
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who, in novels of
great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of
connection with the world
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5.
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Peace
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International Campaign
to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
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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
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6.
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The Sveriges Riksbank
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
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for his contributions
to behavioral economics
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