Nobel Prize Winners List 2021
Nobel Prize Winners 2021 List:
Nobel Prize is awarded in six different fields-- Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economic Sciences, Physiology or Medicine and Peace Prize-- and is one of the most prestigious awards in the world.
The prizes were created as per the will of Sir Alfred Nobel. His will instructed the prize to be accorded to those individuals who have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind during the preceding year. The prize money comes from a legacy left by Alfred Nobel.
The winners are known as laureates and take home a gold medal, diploma and prize money of 10 million Swedish Kronor.
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Nobel Prize Category |
Nobel Prize Winners |
Remarkable Act |
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Peace |
Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov |
Their efforts to
safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and
lasting peace |
|
Literature |
Abdulrazak Gurnah |
The effects of
colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and
continents. |
|
Physics |
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi |
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann - the physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming Giorgio Parisi –the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales. |
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Chemistry |
Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan |
The development of
asymmetric organocatalysis. |
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Physiology or Medicine |
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian |
Discoveries of receptors
for temperature and touch. |
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Economic Sciences |
David Card, Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens |
One half was presented
to David Card for his empirical contributions to labour economics while the
other half was presented to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens for their
methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships. |