Noble Prize Winners 2016

NOBLE PRIZE WINNERS 2016

Chemistry:

Jean-Pierre Sauvage (British) – for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

Fraser Stoddart (British) – for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

Bernard Feringa (Dutch) – for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.

Physics:

J. Michael Kosterlitz (British) – for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.

Duncan Haldane (British)- for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.

David J. Thouless (British) – for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.

Physiology or Medicine:

Yoshinori Ohsumi (Japan) – for discoveries of mechanisms for Autophagy

Economic Sciences:

Oliver Hart (British born American) – for contributions to contract theory

Bengt Holmstrom (Finland) – for contributions to contract theory

Literature:

Bob Dylan (American) – for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.

Peace Prize:

Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia) – for his resolute efforts to bring the country’s more than 50 year long civil war to an end.