Categories: NOBEL PRIZE

Nobel Prize 2017 Winners

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. The prize ceremonies take place annually in Stockholm, Sweden (with the exception of the peace prize, which is held in Oslo, Norway). The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award available in the fields of literature, medicine, physics, chemistry, peace, as is the Prize in Economic Sciences.

NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE 2017

The Nobel Prize 2017 in Physiology or Medicine. Image Credit: www.nobelprize.org

WINNER: Michael W. Young, Michael Rosbash, Jeffrey C. Hall
“for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm”
The Nobel Assembly, consisting of 50 professors at Karolinska Institutet, awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. For the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine received 361 nominations.

NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2017

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017. Image Credit: www.nobelprize.org

WINNER: Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne
“for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves”

NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2017

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017. Image Credit: www.nobelprize.org

WINNER: Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson
“for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution”.

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2017
WINNER: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Organization
The organization is receiving the award 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.

Kazuo Ishiguro – Nobel Prize 2017 Winner in Literature. Image: www.nobelprize.org

NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2017
WINNER: Kazuo Ishiguro – Facts
“who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”

Richard H. Thaler – Nobel Prize 2017 in Economic Sciences. Image Credit: www.nobelprize.org

NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS 2017
WINNER: Richard H. Thaler
“for his contributions to behavioural economics”
“Our research has greatly changed pensions systems all around the world” – Richard H. Thaler