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*Rabindra Nath Tagore*	*C. V. Raman*	*Har Govind Khurana*	*Mother Teresa*	*Amartya Sen*	*R. K. Pachuri*
1913 in Literature	1930 in Physics	1968 for Medicine	1979 for Peace	1998 for Economics	2007 for Peace

Nobel Prize Winner - 2009

Winner's Name

Field

Country

Work

Elizabeth Blackburn
Carol Greider
Jack Szostak

Medicine

USA

For the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.

Charles K. Kao
Willard S. Boyle
George E. Smith

Physics

USA

For groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication. And the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor.

V. Ramakrishnan
Thomas A. Steitz
Ada E. Yonath

Chemistry

UK
USA
Israel

For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome

Barack Obama

Peace

USA

For his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples

Herta Müller

Literature

Germany

For the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed

Elinor Ostrom
Oliver E. Williamson

Economics

USA

For her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons.
For his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm

Nobel Prize Winner - 2008

Winner's Name

Field

Country

Work

Martti A

Peace

Finland

Who has worked to end conflicts in troubled spots around the world for more than three decades

Paul Krugman

Economics

USA

For his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

Literature

France

Whose work reflects a seemingly insatiable restlessness and sense of wonder about other places and other cultures

Harald zur Hausen
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
Luc Montagnier

Medicine

Germany
France
France

His discovery led to the development of two vaccines against cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among women.
The viral discovery has also led to an understanding of the natural history of H.I.V. infection in people, which ultimately leads to AIDS and death unless treated.

Yoichiro Nambu
Makoto Kobayashi
Toshihide Maskawa

Physics

USA
Japan
Japan

For their work exploring the hidden symmetries among elementary particles that are the deepest constituents of nature.

Osamu Shimomura
Martin Chalfie
Roger Y. Tsien

Chemistry

Japan
USA
USA

For taking the ability of some jellyfish to glow green and transforming it into a ubiquitous tool of molecular biology to watch the dance of living cells and the proteins within them.

Nobel Prize Winner - 2007

Winner's Name

Field

Country

Work

Al Gore
R. K. Pachuri

Peace

USA
India

for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change.

Leonid Hurwicz
Eric S. Maskin
Roger B. Myerson

Economics

USA

For their work in mechanism design theory, a branch of economics that looks at the design of institutions in situations where markets do not work properly.

Doris Lessing

Literature

Whose deeply autobiographical writing has swept across continents and reflects her engagement with the social and political issues of her time

Mario R. Capecchi
Oliver Smithies
Martin J. Evans

Medicine

USA
USA
UK

For developing the immensely powerful “knockout” technology that allows scientists to create animal models of human disease in mice.

Albert Fert
Peter Grünberg

Physics

France
Germany

They have discovered how to manipulate the magnetic and electrical properties of thin layers of atoms to store vast amounts of data on tiny disks, making iPods and other wonders of modern life possible

Gerhard Ertl

Chemistry

Germany

Whose studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces have affected agriculture, manufacturing and environmental science

Nobel Prize Winner - 2006

Winner's Name

Field

Country

Work

Muhammad Yunus

Peace

Bangladesh

For pioneering work in giving tiny loans to millions of poor people no commercial bank would touch — destitute widows and abandoned wives, landless laborers and rickshaw drivers, sweepers and beggars.

Edmund S. Phelps

Economics

USA

For his contribution to a sophisticated explanation of how wages, unemployment and inflation interact with one another.

Orhan Pamuk

Literature

Turkey

Whose exquisitely constructed, wistful prose explores the agonized dance between Muslims and the West and between past and present

Andrew Z. Fire
Craig C. Mello

Medicine

USA

A far-reaching discovery about how genes are controlled within living cells