FOR THE GREATEST BENEFIT TO HUMANKIND

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Most recent winners

Chemistry

  • Emmanuelle Charpentier

    991

    for the development of a method for genome editing

  • Jennifer A. Doudna

    992

    for the development of a method for genome editing

Economic Sciences

  • Paul R. Milgrom

    995

    for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats

  • Robert B. Wilson

    996

    for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats

Literature

  • Louise Glück

    993

    for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal

Peace

  • World Food Programme

    994

    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

Physics

  • Roger Penrose

    988

    for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity

  • Reinhard Genzel

    989

    for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy

  • Andrea Ghez

    990

    for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy

Physiology or Medicine

  • Harvey J. Alter

    985

    for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus

  • Michael Houghton

    986

    for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus

  • Charles M. Rice

    987

    for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus