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Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, for their discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins

The 14th Dalai Lama, for his non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet

May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser, and John O'Keefe, for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain

Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, and John C. Polanyi, for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes

Juan Ramón Jiménez, for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic purity

Bruce Beutler, Jules Hoffmann, and Ralph M. Steinman, for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity and the discovery of dendritic cells and their role in adaptive immunity

Frederick Banting and John Macleod, for the discovery of insulin

Paul Krugman, for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity

Peter Handke, for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience

Murray Gell-Mann, for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions

Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, and Jens C. Skou, for their elucidation of the enzyme mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley, for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design

Linus Pauling, for his research into the nature of the chemical bond

Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp, for their discoveries of split genes

Albert Einstein, for the photoelectric effect

Marie Curie, for her work on radioactivity

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa, for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

Mario Vargas Llosa, for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat

Wangari Maathai, for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace

Hannes Alfvén, for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics

Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle, and George E. Smith, for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication and the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor

Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin, for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East

Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon, for the discovery of water channels and structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels

Kim Dae-jung, for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular

Joseph Brodsky, for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity

Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes

Martin Luther King Jr., for his nonviolent campaign against racism

Mikhail Gorbachev, for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community

Svetlana Alexievich, for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time

Eugene Wigner, for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary particles, particularly through the discovery and application of fundamental symmetry principles

Ilya Mechnikov and Paul Ehrlich, for their work on immunity

Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John E. Sulston, for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death

Edmund Phelps, for his analysis of intertemporal trade-offs in macroeconomic policy

Fritz Haber, for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements

Desmond Tutu, for his role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa

Doris Lessing, that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny

Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, and Hamilton O. Smith, for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics

Mother Teresa, for her work in bringing help to suffering humanity

Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel, for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems

Max von Laue, for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals

Hans Krebs and Fritz Lipmann, for their discovery of the citric acid cycle (Krebs cycle) and the co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism

Albert Schweitzer, for his reverence for life, expressed in a very practical form by his medical mission work in Africa, with its stress on humanitarian values and respect for the cultures and worldviews of others

Eric A. Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl E. Wieman, for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates

Boris Pasternak, for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition

Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, and Donna Strickland, for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics

Wassily Leontief, for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems

Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins, for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids

Selma Lagerlöf, for the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings