Nobel Prize Winner - 2010

Winner's Name Field Country Work

Konstantin Physics Russia For groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional
Novoselov material graphene.
Andre Geim
Liu Xiaobo Peace China The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo "for his long
and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".
Mario Vargas Llosa Literature Peru For his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of
the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.
Robert G. Edwards Medicine UK For the development of in vitro fertilization.
Richard F. Heck Chemistry USA For palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis.
Ei-ichi Negishi USA
Akira Suzuki Japan
Peter A. Diamond Economic USA For their analysis of markets with search frictions.
Dale T. Mortensen s USA
Christopher A. UK
Pissarides

Nobel Prize Winner - 2009

Winner's Name Field Country Work

Elizabeth Medicine USA For the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and
Blackburn the enzyme telomerase.
Carol Greider
Jack Szostak
Charles K. Kao Physics USA For groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light
Willard S. Boyle in fibers for optical communication. And the invention of an imaging
George E. Smith semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor.
V. Ramakrishnan Chemistry UK For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome
Thomas A. Steitz USA
Ada E. Yonath Israel
Barack Obama Peace USA For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and
cooperation between peoples.
Herta Müller Literature Germany For the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the
landscape of the dispossessed.
Elinor Ostrom Economic USA For her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.
Oliver E. s For his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of
Williamson the firm.

Nobel Prize Winner - 2008

Winner's Name Field Country Work

Martti A Peace Finland Who has worked to end conflicts in troubled spots around the world for
 more than three decades.
Paul Krugman Economic USA For his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.
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Jean-Marie Literature France Whose work reflects a seemingly insatiable restlessness and sense of
Gustave Le wonder about other places and other cultures.
Clézio
Harald zur Medicine Germany His discovery led to the development of two vaccines against cervical
Hausen France cancer, the second most common cancer among women.
Francoise Barre- France The viral discovery has also led to an understanding of the natural history
Sinoussi of H.I.V. infection in people, which ultimately leads to AIDS and death
Luc Montagnier unless treated.
Yoichiro Nambu Physics USA For their work exploring the hidden symmetries among elementary
Makoto Japan particles that are the deepest constituents of nature.
Kobayashi Japan
Toshihide
Maskawa
Osamu Chemistry Japan For taking the ability of some jellyfish to glow green and transforming it
Shimomura USA into a ubiquitous tool of molecular biology to watch the dance of living
Martin Chalfie USA cells and the proteins within them.
Roger Y. Tsien

Nobel Prize Winner - 2007

Winner's
Field Country Work
Name
Al Gore Peace USA For their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-
R. K. Pachuri India made climate change.
Leonid Economic USA For their work in mechanism design theory, a branch of economics that
Hurwicz s looks at the design of institutions in situations where markets do not work
Eric S. Maskin properly.
Roger B.
Myerson
Doris Lessing Literature UK Whose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and
reflects her engagement with the social and political issues of her time.
Gerhard Ertl Chemistry Germany Whose studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces have affected
agriculture, manufacturing and environmental science.
Mario R. Medicine USA For developing the immensely powerful “knockout” technology that allows
Capecchi USA scientists to create animal models of human disease in mice.
Oliver Smithies UK
Martin J. Evans
Albert Fert Physics France They have discovered how to manipulate the magnetic and electrical
Peter Grünberg Germany properties of thin layers of atoms to store vast amounts of data on tiny disks,
making iPods and other wonders of modern life possible.