2020 Nobel Prize Winners

 2020 Nobel Prize Winners

 

I hope you will be interested to know the names  of 2020 Nobel Prize Winners in various categories.

Here are they with their details:

https://www.nytimes.com/article/2020-nobel-prize-winners.html

Physiology or Medicine

Drs. Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice on Monday received the prize for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus. The Nobel committee said the three scientists had “made possible blood tests and new medicines that have saved millions of lives.”

Physics

Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez received the prize on Tuesday for their discoveries that have improved understanding of the universe, including work on black holes.

Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded on Wednesday to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for their work on the development of Crispr-Cas9, a method for genome editing.

Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Louise Glück, one of America’s most celebrated poets, “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”

Peace

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on Friday to the World Food Program for its efforts to combat a surge in global hunger amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has swept around the world with devastating impact.

 

 

 The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science will be announced next Monday in Sweden.