In 2020, 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.
Birth country: France
Motivation: for the development of a method for genome editing
Affiliation: Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens - Germany
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for the development of a method for genome editing
Affiliation: University of California - USA
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats
Affiliation: Stanford University - USA
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats
Affiliation: Stanford University - USA
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus
Affiliation: National Institutes of Health - USA
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus
Affiliation: University of Alberta - Canada
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus
Affiliation: Rockefeller University - USA
Motivation: for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict
Birth country: United Kingdom
Motivation: for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity
Affiliation: University of Oxford - United Kingdom
Birth country: Germany
Motivation: for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy
Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics - Germany; University of California - USA
Birth country: USA
Motivation: for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy
Affiliation: University of California - USA
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