Nobel Prize Winners of 2017

In 2017, 12 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.

2017 - Chemistry

Jacques Dubochet - Male - 75 years

Birth country: Switzerland

Motivation: for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution

Affiliation: University of Lausanne - Switzerland

Joachim Frank - Male - 77 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution

Affiliation: Columbia University - USA

Richard Henderson - Male - 72 years

Birth country: Scotland

Motivation: for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution

Affiliation: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - United Kingdom

2017 - Economic Sciences

Richard H. Thaler - Male - 72 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for his contributions to behavioural economics

Affiliation: University of Chicago - USA

2017 - Literature

Kazuo Ishiguro - Male - 62 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world

2017 - Medicine

Jeffrey C. Hall - Male - 72 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm

Affiliation: University of Maine - USA

Michael Rosbash - Male - 73 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm

Affiliation: Brandeis University - USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute - USA

Michael W. Young - Male - 68 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm

Affiliation: Rockefeller University - USA

2017 - Peace

Organization: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

Country of Origin: Australia

Motivation: for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons

2017 - Physics

Rainer Weiss - Male - 85 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves

Affiliation: LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA

Barry C. Barish - Male - 81 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves

Affiliation: LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration; California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - USA

Kip S. Thorne - Male - 77 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves

Affiliation: LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration; California Institute of Technology (Caltech) - USA

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