Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Swedish poet, a psychologist by profession, is known for his short, striking poems, which have been translated into more than 60 languages.

6 October 2011 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Shechtman found crystals with a pattern that never repeats, which many scientists said was impossible.

5 October 2011 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2011 Nobel Prize in Physics

By studying exploding stars, two research teams found in 1998 that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, not slowing down.

4 October 2011 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Their discoveries explain how the body first detects infection and then mounts a targeted response.

3 October 2011 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

Their work explains why unemployment can exist alongside unfilled vacancies, as workers and employers take time to find each other.

11 October 2010 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2010 Nobel Peace Prize

The Chinese writer and activist is serving an 11-year prison sentence for his part in Charter 08, a manifesto calling for political reform.

8 October 2010 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2010 Nobel Prize in Literature

The Peruvian novelist is known for The Time of the Hero, Conversation in the Cathedral and The Feast of the Goat.

7 October 2010 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Palladium-catalysed cross coupling is a way of joining carbon atoms together, used to make medicines, plastics and electronics.

6 October 2010 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2010 Nobel Prize in Physics

Graphene is a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, stronger than steel and an excellent conductor.

5 October 2010 · Source: The Nobel Prize

Awards and Honours

2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Edwards developed IVF with the gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988.

4 October 2010 · Source: The Nobel Prize