The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 was awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi "for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy".
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Physics:
Tuesday 4 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest
Chemistry:
Wednesday 5 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest
Peace:
Friday 7 October, 11:00 a.m.
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Monday 10 October, 11:45 a.m. at the earliest
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"And I said: 'What award?'"
Peter Higgs, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2013
"Did you think we murdered somebody?"
Elizabeth Blackburn, Medicine 2009
"I didn't understand the reason of all congratulations"
Hiroshi Amano, Physics 2014
"The president of the USA called me up"
Jerome Karle, Chemistry 1985
"I needed a cup of coffee"
Amartya Sen, Economic Sciences 1998
"Immediately the whole country was electrified"
Muhammad Yunus, Peace 2006
"I really felt very frightened, I didn't know how to cope"
Mairead Corrigan, Peace 1976
See the list of all Nobel Laureates and why they were awarded their prizes.
All Nobel PrizesThe youngest Nobel Laureate ever is 17-year old Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai.
List of all Nobel Laureates by ageThe Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 26 times to organizations.
See the list of awarded organizations10 persons were awarded in 2015, two women, eight men; and one organization.
See all 2015 Nobel Laureates and why they were awardedAlfred Nobel wanted most of his fortune to be used for prizes to award those who had "conferred the greatest benefit to mankind". See who Nobelprize.org's visitors thought were worthy of a Nobel Prize.
Read the suggestionsNo person can nominate herself/himself for a Nobel Prize. But who can? And how are these persons chosen?
Read more about how the Nobel Laureates are nominatedSearch among the names of the nominees and nominators, as well as additional information about the nominations 1901-1964.
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Explore the nomination mapLiterary mastery, pioneering science, life-saving discoveries and actions for peace and human rights – achievements of women around the world awarded the Nobel Prize.
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See all episodesThe Nobel Foundation’s capital has grown by one billion Swedish kronor since 2011.
Read moreChemist, engineer and industrialist Alfred Nobel left 31 million SEK (today about 265 million dollar) to fund the Nobel Prizes.
Alfred Nobel's life and workWhen Alfred was five years old his father Immanuel, inventor and builder, moved to St. Petersburg. Alfred joined him a few years later.
Early years in St. PetersburgIn his will of 27 November 1895 signed in Paris, Alfred Nobel specified that the bulk of his fortune should be used for prizes.
Excerpt of Alfred Nobel's willJonas Kaufmann, "the most important versatile tenor of his generation", will perform at the Nobel Prize Concert in Stockholm, Sweden, on 8 December 2016. Gianandrea Noseda, newly appointed music director at the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, USA, will lead the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
More about the 2016 Nobel Prize Concert© David Chipperfield Architects
Nobel Center is to be built on Blasieholmen, on a wonderful site along Stockholm's central waterfront. Through its broad public activities, the Nobel Center will invite people into the Nobel Prize’s unique world of natural sciences, humanities and peace efforts and become a meeting place that inspires curiosity and creativity.
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Shimon Peres passed away on 28 September at age 93. He was awarded the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin "for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East".
Biography of Shimon PeresJames W. Cronin passed away on 25 August, 84 years old. He was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery that the matter-antimatter symmetry is violated when the neutral K-meson decays.
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1980 Nobel Prize in Physics
Roger Tsien shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP". He passed away on 24 August.
BiographyReinhard Selten shared the 1994 Prize in Economic Sciences and was awarded for pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games. Reinhard Selten died on 23 August, at age 85.
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