Static GK - Nobel Prize Winners
List of Nobel Prize winners 2021
| Fields | Nobel Laureates | Contributions |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine or Physiology | David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian | For their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch. |
| Physics | Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann | For the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability reliably predicting global warming. |
| Physics | Giorgio Parisi | For the discovery of interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales. |
| Chemistry | Benjamin List and David MacMillan | For the development of asymmetric organocatalysis. |
| Literature | Abdulrazak Gurnah | For his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents. |
| Nobel Peace Prize | Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov | For their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. |
| Economic Science | David Card | For his empirical contributions to labour economics. |
| Economic Sciences | Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens | For their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships |
List of Nobel Prize winners 2020
| Fields | Nobel Laureates | Contributions |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine or Physiology | Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice | Discovery of the Hepatitis C virus |
| Physics | Roger Penrose | For the discovery of the black hole formation which is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity |
| Physics | Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez | For discovering supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy |
| Chemistry | Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna | On discovering the method for genome editing and development of CRISPR-Cas9 |
| Literature | Louise Gluck | For her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal |
| Nobel Peace Prize | World Food Programme (WFP) | For its efforts to combat the surge in Global hunger amidst coronavirus pandemic, 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. |
| Economic Sciences | Paul R. Milgrom, Robert B. Wilson | For improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. |
List of Nobel Prize winners from India
| Person | Field | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Rabindranath Tagore | Literature | 1913 |
| C.V. Raman | Physics | 1930 |
| Har Gobind Khorana | Medicine | 1968 |
| Mother Teresa | Peace | 1979 |
| Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar | Physics | 1983 |
| Amartya Sen | Economic Sciences | 1998 |
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan | Chemistry | 2009 |
| Kailash Satyarthi | Peace | 2014 |
| Abhijit Banerjee | Economic Sciences | 2019 |