Nobel Prizes are awarded to those scientists and peoples whose contribution is very much important. Till 2020, the Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences were awarded 603 times. The Nobel Prizes for 2020 are just completed on 12th October. The scientists and organizations which are awarded with Noble Prizes in Literature, Peace and Economic Science are mentioned below.
1. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
Louise Glück
Born: 1943, New York, NY, USA
Prize motivation: “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
2. The Nobel Peace Prize 2020
World Food Programme (WFP)
Prize motivation: “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.”
3. The Nobel Prize in Economics (The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020)
Paul R. Milgrom
Born: 20 April 1948, Detroit, MI, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Prize motivation: “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.”
Robert B. Wilson
Born: 1937, Geneva, NE, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Prize motivation: “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.”
The prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine can be viewed by clicking the link below.
(Source: http://nobelprize.org/prizes
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