Nobel Prize Winners of 2012

In 2012, 10 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.

2012 - Chemistry

Robert J. Lefkowitz - Male - 69 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors

Affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute - USA; Duke University Medical Center - USA

Brian K. Kobilka - Male - 57 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for studies of G-protein-coupled receptors

Affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine - USA

2012 - Economic Sciences

Alvin E. Roth - Male - 60 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA; Harvard Business School - USA

Lloyd S. Shapley - Male - 89 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design

Affiliation: University of California - USA

2012 - Literature

Mo Yan - Male - 56 years

Birth country: China

Motivation: who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary

2012 - Medicine

Sir John B. Gurdon - Male - 79 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent

Affiliation: Gurdon Institute - United Kingdom

Shinya Yamanaka - Male - 50 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent

Affiliation: Kyoto University - Japan; Gladstone Institutes - USA

2012 - Peace

Organization: European Union (EU)

Motivation: for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe

2012 - Physics

Serge Haroche - Male - 68 years

Birth country: Morocco

Motivation: for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems

Affiliation: Collège de France - France; École Normale Supérieure - France

David J. Wineland - Male - 68 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems

Affiliation: National Institute of Standards and Technology - USA; University of Colorado - USA

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