NOBEL PRIZE - 2020

WINNERS

• PHYSICS

• Roger Penrose (UK)

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

• Reinhard Genzel (Germany)
• Andrea Ghez (USA)

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

 

• CHEMISTRY

• Emmanuelle Charpentier (France)
• Jennifer A. Doudna (USA)

--“for the development of a method for genome editing” 

• PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE

• Harvey J. Alter (USA)
• Michael Houghton (USA)
• Charles M. Rice (USA)

-- “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus”.

 

• LITERATURE

• Louise Glück (USA)

--“for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.

 

-- Notable Works:- 

Firstborn(1968)

The House on Marshland (1975)

The Triumph of Achilles (1985)

The Wild Iris (1992)

Averno (2006)

• PEACE

• World Food Programme (WFP) 

--“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”

• ECONOMICS

• Paul R. Milgrom (USA)
• Robert B. Wilson (USA)

--“for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats”