Nobel Prizes 2020

 

 

NOBEL PRIZES 2020

  

Peace Prize is given in Oslo, Norway

 Other Prizes are given in Sweden

 Normally Nobel Prizes are awarded on December 10,  every year

 Nobel Prizes are being given since 1901

  Economics Prize is announced in 1968 and is being given from 1969

 

 

Sl.No.	Prize	Winners	Country		Amount
1	Peace	World Food Programme (WFP)     In 1961 WFP IS STARTED   WFP OFFICE IS IN Rome , Italy	It is a wing of UNO	for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe. The announcement was made in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of Nobel Committee.	10 million Swedish Kronars         FULL
2	Physics	Roger Penrose	University of Oxford, UK	“for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”	one half   50%
		Reinhard Genzel	Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany and University of California, Berkeley, USA	“for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”	other half (50%)jointly to
		Andrea Ghez	University of California, Los Angeles, USA
3	Chemistry	Emmanuelle Charpentier,	France	A TOOL FOR GENOME EDITING     Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna   have discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms with extremely high precision. This technology has had a revolutionary impact on the life sciences, is contributing to new cancer therapies and may make the dream of curing inherited diseases come true.	50%
		Jennifer A. Doudna,	Washington, D.C, USA.		50%
		Two women scientists
4	Medicine/Physiology	Harvey J. Alter,	USA	for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus	awarded jointly to
		Michael Houghton	UK
		Charles M . Rice	USA
5	Literature	LOUISE GLUCK	USA	FOR HER UNMISTAKABLE POETIC VOICE THAT WITH AUSTERE BEAUTY MAKES INDIVIDUAL EXISTENCE UNIVERSAL
6	Economics   Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics	Paul R . Milgrom	USA	FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO AUCTION THEORY AND INVENTIONS OF NEW AUCTION FORMATS	50%
	.	Robert B Wilson	USA	Their discoveries have benefitted sellers, buyers, and tax payers around the world	50%