Nobel Prize 2020: Winner list and Their Contribution
Nobel Prize award was first conferred in 1901. It is based on the fortune of Alfred Nobel who was a chemist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur.
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Why Nobel Prize winner called as Nobel Laureate?
Nobel Laureate is a person or organisation who is awarded the Nobel Prize. The word “laureate” refers as a laurel wreath. In ancient Greece, it refers to a sign of honour.
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Nobel Laureates 2020 and Their Contribution |
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Nobel Laureates |
Field | Contribution |
| Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice | Medicine | Discovered Hepatitis C virus |
| Roger Penrose | Physics | Discovered that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity |
| Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez | Discovered supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy | |
| Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna | Chemistry | Discovered the method for genome editing |
| Louise Glück | Literature | For her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal |
| World Food Programme (WFP) | Peace | 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. |
| Paul R. Milgrom, Robert B. Wilson
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Economic Sciences |
For improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. |
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Nobel Laureates 2019 and Their Contribution |
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William G. Kaelin Jr, Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza |
Physiology or Medicine | Discovered how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. |
| James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz | Physics | James Peebles: theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology
And Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. |
| John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino | Chemistry | Discovered the development of lithium-ion batteries. |
| Peter Handke | Literature | Discovered an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience. |
| Abiy Ahmed Ali | Peace | For his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea. |
| Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer | Economic Sciences | For their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. |
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