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1994 - Peace
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin, for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East
1978 - Physiology or Medicine
Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, and Hamilton O. Smith, for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics
1921 - Physics
Albert Einstein, for the photoelectric effect
1954 - Chemistry
Linus Pauling, for his research into the nature of the chemical bond
2014 - Physiology or Medicine
May-Britt Moser, Edvard I. Moser, and John O'Keefe, for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain
1997 - Chemistry
Paul D. Boyer, John E. Walker, and Jens C. Skou, for their elucidation of the enzyme mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
1964 - Peace
Martin Luther King Jr., for his nonviolent campaign against racism
1986 - Chemistry
Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, and John C. Polanyi, for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes
2019 - Literature
Peter Handke, for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience
1976 - Peace
Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, founders of the Community of Peace People, for their initiatives to end civil strife in Northern Ireland
1969 - Physics
Murray Gell-Mann, for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions
1914 - Physics
Max von Laue, for his discovery of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals
2005 - Peace
Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes
1903 - Physics
Marie Curie, for her work on radioactivity
2006 - Economics
Edmund Phelps, for his analysis of intertemporal trade-offs in macroeconomic policy
1909 - Literature
Selma Lagerlöf, for the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings
1918 - Chemistry
Fritz Haber, for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements
1970 - Physics
Hannes Alfvén, for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics
1993 - Physiology or Medicine
Richard J. Roberts and Phillip A. Sharp, for their discoveries of split genes
1923 - Physiology or Medicine
Frederick Banting and John Macleod, for the discovery of insulin
1929 - Physiology or Medicine
Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, for their discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins
1987 - Literature
Joseph Brodsky, for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity
2010 - Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa, for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat
2012 - Economics
Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley, for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design
2011 - Physiology or Medicine
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
2002 - Physiology or Medicine
Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John E. Sulston, for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death
2013 - Chemistry
Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel, for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems
1962 - Physiology or Medicine
Francis Crick, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins, for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids
2018 - Physics
Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou, and Donna Strickland, for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics
1956 - Literature
Juan Ramón Jiménez, for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistic purity
2007 - Literature
Doris Lessing, that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny
1908 - Physiology or Medicine
Ilya Mechnikov and Paul Ehrlich, for their work on immunity
2003 - Chemistry
Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon, for the discovery of water channels and structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels
2015 - Literature
Svetlana Alexievich, for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time
2009 - 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
1963 - Physics
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
1979 - Mother Teresa - Peace
Mother Teresa, for her work in bringing help to suffering humanity
2008 - Economics
Paul Krugman, for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity
1958 - Literature
Boris Pasternak, for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition
1984 - Peace
Desmond Tutu, for his role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa
1989 - The Dalai Lama - Peace
The 14th Dalai Lama, for his non-violent struggle for the liberation of Tibet
1973 - Economics
Wassily Leontief, for the development of the input-output method and for its application to important economic problems
2001 - Physics
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
1952 - Peace
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
2016 - Chemistry
Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa, for the design and synthesis of molecular machines
2004 - Peace
Wangari Maathai, for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace
1953 - Physiology or Medicine
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
2000 - Peace
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
1990 - Peace
Mikhail Gorbachev, for his leading role in the peace process which today characterizes important parts of the international community
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