Nobel Prizes 2016
Chemistry
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Jean-Pierre Sauvage
"for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart
"for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"
Bernard L. Feringa
"for the design and synthesis of molecular machines"
Economic Sciences
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
Oliver Hart
"for their contributions to contract theory"
Bengt Holmström
"for their contributions to contract theory"
Literature
- The Nobel Prize in Literature
Bob Dylan
"for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"
Peace
- The Nobel Peace Prize
Juan Manuel Santos
"for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end"
Physics
- The Nobel Prize in Physics
David J. Thouless
"for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter"
F. Duncan M. Haldane
"for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter"
J. Michael Kosterlitz
"for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter"
Physiology or Medicine
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Yoshinori Ohsumi
"for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy"