World of Awards
Nobel Prize 2020
Field | Winner | For | Given By |
Physiology or Medicine |
Harvey J. Alter (USA) Michael Houghton (UK) Charles M. Rice (USA) |
The discovery of Hepatitis C virus | Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute |
Physics |
Roger Penrose (UK) >Reinhard Genzel (Germany) Andrea Ghez (USA) |
Their work on blackhole formation and the discovery of a supermassive blackhole at the centre of our galaxy | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
Chemistry |
Emmanuelle Charpentier (France) Jennifer A. Doudna (USA) |
Development of a method for genome editing | Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
Literature |
Louise Glück (USA) |
Her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal | The Swedish Academy |
Peace |
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) |
Efforts to combat hunger, for its .... |