2011 - Chemistry
Dan Shechtman - Male - 70 years
Birth country: Israel
Motivation: for the discovery of quasicrystals
Affiliation: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Israel
Nobel Prize Winners of 2011
In 2011, 13 laureates received the Nobel Prize in 6 categories: Chemistry, Economic Sciences, Literature, Medicine, Peace, Physics. Each entry lists the motivation, the laureate's age at the award, birth country, and affiliation.
2011 - Economic Sciences
Thomas J. Sargent - Male - 68 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy
Affiliation: New York University - USA
Christopher A. Sims - Male - 68 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy
Affiliation: Princeton University - USA
2011 - Literature
Tomas Tranströmer - Male - 80 years
Birth country: Sweden
Motivation: because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality
2011 - Medicine
Bruce A. Beutler - Male - 53 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity
Affiliation: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas - USA; The Scripps Research Institute - USA
Jules A. Hoffmann - Male - 70 years
Birth country: Luxembourg
Motivation: for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity
Affiliation: University of Strasbourg - France
Ralph M. Steinman - Male - 68 years
Birth country: Canada
Motivation: for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity
Affiliation: Rockefeller University - USA
2011 - Peace
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - Female - 72 years
Birth country: Liberia
Motivation: for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work
Leymah Gbowee - Female - 39 years
Birth country: Liberia
Motivation: for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work
Tawakkol Karman - Female - 32 years
Birth country: Yemen
Motivation: for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work
2011 - Physics
Saul Perlmutter - Male - 52 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae
Affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - USA; University of California - USA
Brian P. Schmidt - Male - 44 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae
Affiliation: Australian National University - Australia
Adam G. Riess - Male - 41 years
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University - USA; Space Telescope Science Institute - USA
