Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are prizes awarded annually to individuals or organizations who make outstanding contributions in the six nominated fields. These six field are: chemistry, physics, literature, peace, economics, and physiology or medicine.
The first Nobel prizes were awarded in 1901 in the five fields. And, the first prize in the sixth field, economics, was awarded in 1969.
The Nobel Prizes are being awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The Nobel prizes were founded according to the will of Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel who left his wealth of about 31 million SEK for the establishment of the Nobel Prizes.
Nobel Prize Winners 2020
| Field | Winners | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Physics | Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez | For contributions to the understanding of Black holes and the Milky Way's darkest secret |
| Chemistry | Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A. Doudna | for the development of a method for genome editing |
| Physiology or Medicine | Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, Charles M. Rice | for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus |
| Literature | Louise Gluck | for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal |
| Peace | World Food Programme (WFP) | for its efforts to combat hunger |
| Economics | Paul R. Milgrom, Robert B. Wilson | for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats |
Nobel laureates (Nobel Prize winners) receive a gold medal, a diploma and a cash prize of about 10 million SEK.
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