List of Nobel Prize Laureates 2020
🏆 NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS 2020 🏆
🎖 AWARDED FOR
🔹 Outstanding contributions for humanity in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine.
🌀 First Awarded : 1901
🎖 COUNTRY
🔹 Sweden (all prizes except the Peace Prize)
🔹 Norway (Peace Prize only)
🎖REWARD
🔹Prize money of 9 million
🏆 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY 2020
🔷 Harvey J Alter (USA)
🔷 Charles M Rice (USA)
🔷 Michael Houghton (UK)
♦️”For the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus”
🏆 NOBLE PRIZE IN PHYSICS 2020
🔷 Roger Penrose (UK)
🔷 Reinhard Genzel (Germany)
🔷 Andrea Ghez (USA)
💠 Roger Penrose
♦️ “For the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity,”
💠 Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez
♦️“For the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy,”
🏆 NOBLE PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY 2020
🔷 Emmanuelle Charpentier (France)
🔷 Jennifer A. Doudna (USA)
♦️”For the development of a method for genome editing”
🏆 NOBLE PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2020
🔷 Louise Gluck (USA)
♦️“For her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”
🏆 NOBLE PRIZE IN PEACE 2020
🔷 World Food Programme (WFP)
🏆 NOBEL PRIZE 2020 IN ECONOMIC
🔷 Paul R. Milgrom (USA)
🔷 Robert B. Wilson (USA)
♦️ “For improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.”