Nobel Prize Winners of 2015

Tomas Lindahl - Male - 77 years

Birth country: Sweden

Motivation: for mechanistic studies of DNA repair

Affiliation: Francis Crick Institute - United Kingdom; Clare Hall Laboratory - United Kingdom

Paul Modrich - Male - 69 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for mechanistic studies of DNA repair

Affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute - USA; Duke University School of Medicine - USA

Aziz Sancar - Male - 69 years

Birth country: Turkey

Motivation: for mechanistic studies of DNA repair

Affiliation: University of North Carolina - USA

Angus Deaton - Male - 69 years

Birth country: Scotland

Motivation: for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare

Affiliation: Princeton University - USA

Svetlana Alexievich - Female - 67 years

Birth country: Ukraine

Motivation: for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time

William C. Campbell - Male - 85 years

Birth country: Ireland

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites

Affiliation: Drew University - USA

Satoshi Ōmura - Male - 80 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for their discoveries concerning a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm parasites

Affiliation: Kitasato University - Japan

Tu Youyou - Female - 84 years

Birth country: China

Motivation: for her discoveries concerning a novel therapy against Malaria

Affiliation: China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine - China

Takaaki Kajita - Male - 56 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass

Affiliation: University of Tokyo - Japan

Arthur B. McDonald - Male - 72 years

Birth country: Canada

Motivation: for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass

Affiliation: Queen's University - Canada