Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates

Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates

Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates 2017
Nobel Laureates	Field	Contribution
Rainer Weiss Barry C. Barish Kip S. Thorne	Physics	For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
Jacques Dubochet Joachim Frank Richard Henderson	Chemistry	"For developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution".
Jeffrey C. Hall Michael Rosbash Michael W. Young	Physiology or Medicine	"For their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm".
Kazuo Ishiguro	Literature	"Who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)	Peace	"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".
Richard H. Thaler	Economic Sciences	"For his contributions to behavioural economics".
Lists of Nobel Prizes and Laureates 2016
Nobel Laureates	Field	Contribution
F. Duncan M. Haldane J. Michael Kosterlitz	Physics	For the theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter"
Jean-Pierre Sauvage Sir J. Fraser Stoddart Bernard L. Feringa	Chemistry	For the design and synthesis of molecular machines
Yoshinori Ohsumi	Physiology or Medicine	For the discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy
Bob Dylan	Literature	For having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition
Juan Manuel Santos	Peace	For his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end
Oliver Hart Bengt Holmström	Economic Sciences	For their contributions to contract theory