Nobel Prize 2017 Winners List : Quick Look

Nobel Prizes : Introduction

Nobel Prizes are the most prestigious intellectual awards in the world. These awards were established in the year 1901 by a Swedish chemist named Alfred Nobel. He was the creator of Dynamite. He thought the Dynamite would end all wars but it proved to be the deadliest product and people started calling him "The Merchant of Death". 

He felt very bad for that and created a will on 27th November 1895, giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes and established the now famous Nobel Prizes. On the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, December 10, 1901, the first set of Nobel Prizes were awarded. Initially the prizes were given for the areas Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace. Later in the year 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. 

Complete List of Nobel Awards Winners 2017

Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2017

Winners

Ø     Jeffrey C. Hall (USA)

Ø     Michael Rosbash (USA)

Ø     Michael W. Young (USA)

Reason : For the discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.

Nobel Prize for Physics 2017

Winners

Rainer Weiss (Germany)

Barry C. Barish (USA)

Kip S. Thorne (USA)

Reason : For decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.

Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2017

Winners

Ø     Jacques Dubochet (Switzerland)

Ø     Joachim Frank (Germany)

Ø     Richard Henderson (Scotland)

Reason : For developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.

Nobel Prize for Literature 2017

Winner

Ø     Kazuo Ishiguro (Japan)

Reason : For his novels of great emotional force.

Nobel Prize for Peace 2017

Winner :

Ø     International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) (founded in Australia)

Reason : For its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons.

Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences 2017

Winner

Ø     Richard H. Thaler (USA)

Reason : For contributions to behavioural economics