Nobel Prize Winners of 2016

Jean-Pierre Sauvage - Male - 71 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

Affiliation: University of Strasbourg - France

Sir J. Fraser Stoddart - Male - 74 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

Affiliation: Northwestern University - USA

Bernard L. Feringa - Male - 65 years

Birth country: the Netherlands

Motivation: for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

Affiliation: University of Groningen - the Netherlands

Oliver Hart - Male - 68 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their contributions to contract theory

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA

Bengt Holmström - Male - 67 years

Birth country: Finland

Motivation: for their contributions to contract theory

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA

Bob Dylan - Male - 75 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition

Yoshinori Ohsumi - Male - 71 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy

Affiliation: Tokyo Institute of Technology - Japan

Juan Manuel Santos - Male - 65 years

Birth country: Colombia

Motivation: for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end

David J. Thouless - Male - 82 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter

Affiliation: University of Washington - USA

F. Duncan M. Haldane - Male - 65 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter

Affiliation: Princeton University - USA

J. Michael Kosterlitz - Male - 73 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter

Affiliation: Brown University - USA