Nobel Prize Winners of 2010

Richard F. Heck - Male - 79 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis

Affiliation: University of Delaware - USA

Ei-ichi Negishi - Male - 75 years

Birth country: China

Motivation: for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis

Affiliation: Purdue University - USA

Akira Suzuki - Male - 80 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for palladium-catalyzed cross couplings in organic synthesis

Affiliation: Hokkaido University - Japan

Peter A. Diamond - Male - 70 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their analysis of markets with search frictions

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA

Dale T. Mortensen - Male - 71 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their analysis of markets with search frictions

Affiliation: Northwestern University - USA; Aarhus University - Denmark

Christopher A. Pissarides - Male - 62 years

Birth country: Cyprus

Motivation: for their analysis of markets with search frictions

Affiliation: London School of Economics and Political Science - United Kingdom

Mario Vargas Llosa - Male - 74 years

Birth country: Peru

Motivation: for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat

Robert G. Edwards - Male - 85 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for the development of in vitro fertilization

Affiliation: University of Cambridge - United Kingdom

Liu Xiaobo - Male - 54 years

Birth country: China

Motivation: for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China

Andre Geim - Male - 51 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene

Affiliation: University of Manchester - United Kingdom

Konstantin Novoselov - Male - 36 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene

Affiliation: University of Manchester - United Kingdom