Nobel Prize Winners

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The Nobel Peace Prize 2008 Winner

Martti Ahtisaari of Finland for for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008 Winners

Yoichiro Nambu of Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA won half of the prize for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.

Makoto Kobayashi of High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) Tsukuba, Japan won 1/4 of the prize for for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.

Toshihide Maskawa of Kyoto Sangyo University; Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan won 1/4 of the prize for for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 Winners

Osamu Shimomura of Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Woods Hole, MA, USA, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University New York, NY, USA and Roger Y. Tsien University of California, San Diego, CA, USA won 1/3 of the prize respectively for for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2008 Winners

Harald zur Hausen of German Cancer Research Centre Heidelberg, Germany won half of the prize for for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer.

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi of Regulation of Retroviral Infections Unit, Virology Department, Institut Pasteur Paris, France and Luc Montagnier of World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention Paris, France won 1/4 of the prize respectively for for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2008 Winner

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio of France, the author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.

A partial list of books by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio:

Works in English, translated from French:
"The Interrogation" (1964)
"Fever" (1966)
"The Flood" (1967)
"Terra Amata" (1969)
"The Book of Flights: An Adventure Story" (1971)
"War" (1973)
"The Giants" (1975)
"The Mexican Dream, or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations" (1993)
"The Prospector" (1993)
"Onitsha" (1997)
"The Round & Other Cold Hard Facts" (2002)
"Wandering Star: A Novel" (2004)

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2007

Leonid Hurwicz of University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN, USA, Eric S. Maskin of Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ, USA and Roger B. Myerson of University of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA won 1/3 of the prize respectively for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory.

All Nobel Peace Prize Laureates

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 96 individuals and 20 organizations since 1901. (Comité International de la Croix Rouge was awarded the prize in 1917, 1944 and 1963; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was awarded the prize in 1954 and 1981.)

* 2008 - Martti Ahtisaari of Finland
* 2007 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore
* 2006 - Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank both of Bangladesh
* 2005 - International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei
* 2004 - Wangari Muta Maathai of Kenya
* 2003 - Shirin Ebadi of Iran
* 2002 - Jimmy Carter of US
* 2001 - United Nations, Kofi Annan
* 2000 - Kim Dae-jung of South Korea
* 1999 - Médecins Sans Frontières
* 1998 - John Hume, David Trimble
* 1997 - International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Jody Williams
* 1996 - Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, José Ramos-Horta
* 1995 - Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
* 1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin
* 1993 - Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk both from South Africa
* 1992 - Rigoberta Menchú Tum of Guatemala
* 1991 - Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar (Burma)
* 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev
* 1989 - The 14th Dalai Lama
* 1988 - United Nations Peacekeeping Forces
* 1987 - Oscar Arias Sánchez of Costa Rica
* 1986 - Elie Wiesel of US
* 1985 - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
* 1984 - Desmond Tutu of South Africa
* 1983 - Lech Walesa of Poland
* 1982 - Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
* 1981 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
* 1980 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel of Argentina
* 1979 - Mother Teresa of India
* 1978 - Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt, Menachem Begin of Israel
* 1977 - Amnesty International
* 1976 - Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan
* 1975 - Andrei Sakharov
* 1974 - Seán MacBride, Eisaku Sato
* 1973 - Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
* 1972 - The prize money for 1972 was allocated to the Main Fund
* 1971 - Willy Brandt
* 1970 - Norman Borlaug
* 1969 - International Labour Organization
* 1968 - René Cassin
* 1967 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1966 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1965 - United Nations Children's Fund
* 1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. of US
* 1963 - International Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies
* 1962 - Linus Pauling
* 1961 - Dag Hammarskjöld
* 1960 - Albert Lutuli
* 1959 - Philip Noel-Baker
* 1958 - Georges Pire
* 1957 - Lester Bowles Pearson
* 1956 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1955 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1954 - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
* 1953 - George C. Marshall
* 1952 - Albert Schweitzer
* 1951 - Léon Jouhaux
* 1950 - Ralph Bunche
* 1949 - Lord Boyd Orr
* 1948 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1947 - Friends Service Council, American Friends Service Committee
* 1946 - Emily Greene Balch, John R. Mott
* 1945 - Cordell Hull
* 1944 - International Committee of the Red Cross
* 1943 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1939 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1938 - Nansen International Office for Refugees
* 1937 - Robert Cecil
* 1936 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas
* 1935 - Carl von Ossietzky
* 1934 - Arthur Henderson
* 1933 - Sir Norman Angell
* 1932 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1931 - Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler
* 1930 - Nathan Söderblom
* 1929 - Frank B. Kellogg
* 1928 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1927 - Ferdinand Buisson, Ludwig Quidde
* 1926 - Aristide Briand, Gustav Stresemann
* 1925 - Sir Austen Chamberlain, Charles G. Dawes
* 1924 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1923 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1922 - Fridtjof Nansen
* 1921 - Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lange
* 1920 - Léon Bourgeois
* 1919 - Woodrow Wilson
* 1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1917 - International Committee of the Red Cross
* 1916 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1915 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1914 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section
* 1913 - Henri La Fontaine
* 1912 - Elihu Root
* 1911 - Tobias Asser, Alfred Fried
* 1910 - Permanent International Peace Bureau
* 1909 - Auguste Beernaert, Paul Henri d'Estournelles de Constant
* 1908 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Fredrik Bajer
* 1907 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Louis Renault
* 1906 - Theodore Roosevelt of US
* 1905 - Bertha von Suttner
* 1904 - Institute of International Law
* 1903 - Randal Cremer
* 1902 - Élie Ducommun, Albert Gobat
* 1901 - Henry Dunant, Frédéric Passy


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