Complete List Of Nobel Prize 2017

The Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural or scientific advances.

Awarded for - Outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physics, or physiology or medicine. Often confused with Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Country - Sweden (all prizes except the Peace Prize)

Norway (Peace Prize only)

Presented by- Swedish Academy Nobel committee of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Nobel committee of Karolinska Institutet

Norwegian Nobel Committee

S.NO	FIELD	WINNER	DESCRIPTION
1.	Physics	Rainer Weiss (USA), Barry C. Barish (USA) and Kip S. Thorne (USA)	for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves
2.	Chemistry	Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland), Joachim Frank (USA) and Richard Henderson (Scotland)	for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution
3.	Physiology or Medicine	Jeffrey C. Hall (USA), Michael Rosbash (USA) and Michael W. Young (USA)	for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm
4.	Literature	Kazuo Ishiguro (Britain)	who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world
5.	Peace	International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)	for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons
6.	The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel	Richard H. Thaler (USA)	for his contributions to behavioral economics

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