NOBEL PRIZE 2017

NOBEL LAUREATES-2017

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2017:
Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne (America)
"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves"

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2017:
Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland), Joachim Frank (USA) and Richard Henderson (U.K.)
"for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE 2017:
Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young
(America)
"for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm"

THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2017:
Kazuo Ishiguro (England)
"who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world"

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2017:
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
"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"

THE SVERIGES RIKSBANK PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES IN MEMORY OF ALFRED NOBEL 2017:
Richard H. Thaler (America)
"for his contributions to behavioural economics"

Source: www.nobelprize.org