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Nobel Prizes

2009

This year 5 of the 13 new Nobel laureates are women, the largest number ever to join the ranks in a single year. The scope of the awarded work is marvelously broad, encompassing the protection and deciphering of DNA at one end of the spectrum, to global communication networks and international diplomacy at the other.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009

To Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak for discovering how chromosomes protect their ends.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009

To Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for uncovering the structure of the ribosome.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2009

To Herta Müller, whose writings in German chronicle, with honesty and poetry, life under dictatorship in her Romanian homeland.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2009

To Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, the fathers of fiber optics and digital imaging.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2009

To Barack Obama for his efforts to strengthen cooperation between peoples to meet global challenges.

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009

To Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson, who both analise economic transactions occuring outside the markets.