Nobel Prize Winners of 2021

In 2021, 13 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.

2021 - Chemistry

Benjamin List - Male - 53 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis

Affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung - Germany

David W.C. MacMillan - Male - 53 years

Birth country: United Kingdom

Motivation: for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis

Affiliation: Princeton University - USA

2021 - Economic Sciences

David Card - Male - 65 years

Birth country: Canada

Motivation: for his empirical contributions to labour economics

Affiliation: University of California - USA

Joshua D. Angrist - Male - 61 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships

Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA

Guido W. Imbens - Male - 58 years

Birth country: the Netherlands

Motivation: for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships

Affiliation: Stanford University - USA

2021 - Literature

Abdulrazak Gurnah - Male - 73 years

Motivation: for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents

2021 - Medicine

David Julius - Male - 65 years

Birth country: USA

Motivation: for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch

Affiliation: University of California - USA

Ardem Patapoutian - Male - 54 years

Birth country: Lebanon

Motivation: for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch

Affiliation: Scripps Research - USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute - USA

2021 - Peace

Maria Ressa - Female - 58 years

Birth country: Philippines

Motivation: for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace

Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov - Male - 60 years

Birth country: Russia

Motivation: for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace

2021 - Physics

Syukuro Manabe - Male - 90 years

Birth country: Japan

Motivation: for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming

Affiliation: Princeton University - USA

Klaus Hasselmann - Male - 89 years

Birth country: Germany

Motivation: for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming

Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Meteorology - Germany

Giorgio Parisi - Male - 73 years

Birth country: Italy

Motivation: for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales

Affiliation: Sapienza University of Rome - Italy

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