Nobel Prize Winners of 2019

John B. Goodenough - Male - 97 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for the development of lithium-ion batteries

Affiliation: University of Texas - USA

M. Stanley Whittingham - Male - 77 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for the development of lithium-ion batteries

Affiliation: Binghamton University, State University of New York - USA

Akira Yoshino - Male - 71 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for the development of lithium-ion batteries

Affiliation: Asahi Kasei Corporation - Japan; Meijo University - Japan

Abhijit Banerjee - Male - 58 years

Birth country: India

Motivation: for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA

Esther Duflo - Female - 46 years

Birth country: France

Motivation: for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA

Michael Kremer - Male - 54 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty

Affiliation: Harvard University - USA

Peter Handke - Male - 76 years

Birth country: Austria

Motivation: for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience

William G. Kaelin Jr - Male - 61 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability

Affiliation: Harvard Medical School - USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute - USA; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - USA; Brigham and Women's Hospital - USA

Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe - Male - 65 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability

Affiliation: University of Oxford - United Kingdom; Francis Crick Institute - United Kingdom

Gregg L. Semenza - Male - 63 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability

Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University - USA

Abiy Ahmed Ali - Male - 43 years

Birth country: Ethiopia

Motivation: for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea

James Peebles - Male - 84 years

Birth country: Canada

Motivation: for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology

Affiliation: Princeton University - USA

Michel Mayor - Male - 77 years

Birth country: Switzerland

Motivation: for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star

Affiliation: University of Geneva - Switzerland

Didier Queloz - Male - 53 years

Birth country: Switzerland

Motivation: for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star

Affiliation: University of Geneva - Switzerland; University of Cambridge - United Kingdom