Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The chemists designed molecules with moving parts, such as tiny motors and lifts, that could one day be used in new materials and medicine.

5 October 2016 · Source: The Nobel Prize

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2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

The three British-born physicists used topology, the mathematics of shapes, to explain unusual states of matter.

4 October 2016 · Source: The Nobel Prize

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2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Autophagy is the process by which cells break down and recycle their own parts.

3 October 2016 · Source: The Nobel Prize

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2015 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Deaton, born in Edinburgh, used household surveys to study how people spend money and how to measure poverty and wellbeing.

12 October 2015 · Source: The Nobel Prize

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2015 Nobel Peace Prize

The quartet of Tunisian organisations, representing unions, employers, lawyers and human rights campaigners, helped steer the country towards democracy after the revolution of 2011.

9 October 2015 · Source: The Nobel Prize

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2015 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Belarusian writer builds books from the testimony of ordinary people, on subjects such as the Chernobyl disaster and the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

8 October 2015 · Source: The Nobel Prize

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2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The three scientists showed how cells repair damaged DNA, which is essential to life and important for understanding cancer.

7 October 2015 · Source: The Nobel Prize

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2015 Nobel Prize in Physics

Neutrinos are tiny particles that pass through almost everything.

6 October 2015 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Campbell and Omura discovered avermectin, from which ivermectin was developed to treat river blindness, and Tu discovered artemisinin, which has saved millions of lives from malaria.

5 October 2015 · Source: The Nobel Prize

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2014 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Tirole showed how to regulate industries dominated by a few powerful firms, such as telecoms and banking, in ways that suit the particular industry.

13 October 2014 · Source: The Nobel Prize