Nobel Peace For Belarus Rights Advocate, Russian And Ukrainian Groups

 

Nobel Peace Prize: Byalyatski was awarded the prize on Friday alongside Russian human rights organisation Memorial and Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties.

Nobel In Economics Awarded To Americans Paul R Milgrom, Robert B Wilson

US economists Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for work on commercial auctions, including for goods and services difficult to sell in traditional ways such as radio frequencies, the Nobel Committee said.

The duo was honoured "for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats," the jury said.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted that the discoveries by Milgrom, 72, and Wilson, 83, "have benefitted sellers, buyers and taxpayers around the world," it said in a statement.

 

American Poet Louise Gluck Awarded 2020 Nobel Prize In Literature

American poet Louise Gluck has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal", the Swedish Academy said on Thursday.

Academy Permanent Secretary Mats Malm said Gluck was "surprised and happy" at the news despite receiving it in the early morning North American time.

A professor at Yale University, Gluck, 77, made her debut in 1968 with "Firstborn", and is seen as one of the most prominent poets in American contemporary literature.

Her poetry is characterised by "a striving for clarity", the Academy said, with a focus on childhood, family life, and close relationships between parents and siblings.

 

Nobel Prize In Chemistry Awarded To Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna

Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the US on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping "scissors", the first time a Nobel science prize has gone to a women-only team.

"Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision," the Nobel jury said.

 

Physics Nobel Prize Awarded To Trio For Black Hole Research

Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the US won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for their research into black holes, the Nobel jury said.

The physicists were selected "for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole," the Nobel Committee said.

 

3 Win Nobel Prize For Medicine "For Discovery Of Hepatitis C Virus"

Americans Harvey Alter and Charles Rice together with Briton Michael Houghton won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus, the Nobel jury said.

The three were honoured for their "decisive contribution to the fight against blood-borne hepatitis, a major global health problem that causes cirrhosis and liver cancer in people around the world," the jury said.

 

Nobel Prize For Medicine 2018

James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan have been honoured "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation," the Nobel Assembly said.