Friday, 14 October 2016

LIST OF NOBLE PRIZE WINNERS 2016

Field
Winner Name
Country of the winner
For his contribution on
Remarks
Physics
1)David J. Thouless


2)F. Duncan M. Haldane

3)J. Michael Kosterlitz
Bearsden, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Aberdeen, United Kingdom
For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter

Chemistry
1)Jean-Pierre Sauvage

2)Sir J. Fraser Stoddart

3)Bernard L. Feringa

Paris, France


Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Barger-Compascuum, Netherlands
For the design and synthesis of molecular machines

Physiology or Medicine
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japan
For his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy

Literature
Bob Dylan
Duluth, Minnesota, United States
For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition

Peace
Juan Manuel Santos
Bogotá, Colombia
For his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end

Economic
Oliver Hart

Bengt Holmström
London, United Kingdom
Helsinki, Finland
For their contributions to contract theory

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