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Meet the New Nobel Laureates!
This year 5 of the 13 new Nobel Laureates are women, the largest number ever to join the ranks in a single year. The scope of the awarded work is marvellously broad, encompassing the protection and deciphering of DNA at one end of the spectrum, to global communication networks and international diplomacy at the other.
Find out more about the 2009 Nobel Laureates and their work before they come to Oslo and Stockholm in December to receive the Nobel Prize.
2009 Nobel Prizes
Physiology or Medicine
To Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for discovering how chromosomes protect their ends.
Chemistry
To Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for uncovering the structure of the ribosome.
Peace
To Barack Obama for his efforts to strengthen cooperation between peoples to meet global challenges.
Physics
To Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, the fathers of fiber optics and digital imaging.
Literature
To Herta Müller, whose writings in German chronicle, with honesty and poetry, life under dictatorship in her Romanian homeland.
Prize in Economic Sciences
To Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson, who both analyse economic transactions occuring outside the markets.
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Facts on the Literature Prize
Are there any posthumous Nobel Prizes in Literature? Learn more about the Literature Laureates here!
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The deadline for applications to attend the events occurring around the Nobel Prize ceremonies is November 13.
Is Reading Important?
What did the Nobel Laureates read when they were young? Fiction, non-fiction or did they read at all? Find out here.
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