Nobel Prize Winners of 2014

Eric Betzig - Male - 54 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy

Affiliation: Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute - USA

Stefan W. Hell - Male - 51 years

Birth country: Romania

Motivation: for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy

Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry - Germany; German Cancer Research Center - Germany

William E. Moerner - Male - 61 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy

Affiliation: Stanford University - USA

Jean Tirole - Male - 61 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for his analysis of market power and regulation

Affiliation: Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - France

Patrick Modiano - Male - 69 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation

John O'Keefe - Male - 74 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain

Affiliation: University College - United Kingdom

May-Britt Moser - Female - 51 years

Birth country: Norway

Motivation: for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain

Affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) - Norway

Edvard I. Moser - Male - 52 years

Birth country: Norway

Motivation: for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain

Affiliation: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) - Norway

Kailash Satyarthi - Male - 60 years

Birth country: India

Motivation: for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education

Malala Yousafzai - Female - 17 years

Birth country: Pakistan

Motivation: for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education

Isamu Akasaki - Male - 85 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources

Affiliation: Meijo University - Japan; Nagoya University - Japan

Hiroshi Amano - Male - 54 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources

Affiliation: Nagoya University - Japan

Shuji Nakamura - Male - 60 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources

Affiliation: University of California - USA